(April 21, 2014 at 9:37 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Is that emotional? It's not concerning touchy feely things like the bad stuff you mention. Natural disasters and nature in full force, natural disasters down to how stuff works has no personal reference at all. You have to get past egocentricity to appreciate it in some cases.
Sure, it's emotional. Feeling awe is in itself an emotional response.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell