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Watching "Cosmos"
#21
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 11:49 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Bottomline being, you don't actually have to be an expert at everything to find out whether something is right or wrong nowadays. If you have second thoughts about something, you can easily dig deeper and find out the truth from the source.

Which is what I was asking Kitan if he was doing. Read more closely.

Boru
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#22
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 7:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 5, 2016 at 11:49 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Bottomline being, you don't actually have to be an expert at everything to find out whether something is right or wrong nowadays. If you have second thoughts about something, you can easily dig deeper and find out the truth from the source.

Which is what I was asking Kitan if he was doing.  Read more closely.

Boru

What makes you think he was suspicious of them? He clearly isn't. So either you think he should be, as a matter of principle, which is another thing altogether, or you think this series in particular got something wrong, which you should point out to begin with.
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#23
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 4, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Kitan Wrote: Watching Cosmos, sometimes I feel there are still holes to be filled where I am questioning science.

Of course, this very desire for knowledge and willpower to not accept something on the basis of it being told to me is precisely why I am not a theist today.

Then I remember that science does not fill holes with a readily comforting answer as does religion.

Science has always been comfortable with stating it does not know something despite the immense pressure of society to provide an answer.

Science does not cave, and those who are too impatient for answers are also too dumb.  Sadly, the too dumb phenomenon is what comprises the majority of human population.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they've found it.
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#24
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 7:22 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(January 5, 2016 at 7:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Which is what I was asking Kitan if he was doing.  Read more closely.

Boru

What makes you think he was suspicious of them? He clearly isn't. So either you think he should be, as a matter of principle, which is another thing altogether, or you think this series in particular got something wrong, which you should point out to begin with.

I never said he was suspicious of anything, and I'm not claiming that Cosmos got anything wrong. I'll try to explain this one more time:

1. I don't like it when people expect me to believe something just on their say-so.

2. #1 doesn't apply to TV shows I like.

Are you getting it now?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#25
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 8:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 5, 2016 at 7:22 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: What makes you think he was suspicious of them? He clearly isn't. So either you think he should be, as a matter of principle, which is another thing altogether, or you think this series in particular got something wrong, which you should point out to begin with.

I never said he was suspicious of anything, and I'm not claiming that Cosmos got anything wrong.  I'll try to explain this one more time:

1.  I don't like it when people expect me to believe something just on their say-so.

2.  #1 doesn't apply to TV shows I like.

Are you getting it now?  

Boru

No, I don't get it.
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#26
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 8:29 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(January 5, 2016 at 8:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I never said he was suspicious of anything, and I'm not claiming that Cosmos got anything wrong.  I'll try to explain this one more time:

1.  I don't like it when people expect me to believe something just on their say-so.

2.  #1 doesn't apply to TV shows I like.

Are you getting it now?  

Boru

No, I don't get it.

Is this for real - do you really not understand how one can like a show and still have reservations with it? Never like anything that you didn't like perfectly? No good friends who also have annoying habits?

If anyone felt that more citations could have been given without wreaking the program, well I did too - not that googling it up was really that hard.
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#27
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
(January 5, 2016 at 9:30 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:
(January 5, 2016 at 8:29 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: No, I don't get it.

Is this for real - do you really not understand how one can like a show and still have reservations with it? Never like anything that you didn't like perfectly? No good friends who also have annoying habits?

If anyone felt that more citations could have been given without wreaking the program, well I did too - not that googling it up was really that hard.

Still don't understand what the actual problem is.
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#28
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
So it's trailer for the 3rd season




It looks interesting.
I didn't think there would be 3rd season after 2nd one ended. I also remember Tyson leaving the spaceship empty as if for some new host.
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#29
RE: Watching "Cosmos"
Holy shit, this one is bare bones FM O-O;
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