If I were to be buried (which I will not be), you can write on my tombstone "Wasn't Impressed". I'm not. I wasn't as a child. I don't look to suddenly be in the future.
This world could easily be so much better. That it is not is an indictment. On who? On what? Why does it matter? It's not. That's what matters to me. We can't even get people to not talk in the movie theaters. And you know what? That one thing is what I use to judge all humanity. Forget the wars, the suffering, the human triumphs. We can put a man on the moon but we can't get everybody to shut up when the movie is playing the cinema even though everybody knows it's rude to chat during the film.
If people cannot extend the simple courtesy to their fellow man to keep their trap shut during the 2 hours of a film, why should I expect more from them outside the cinema? Well, the simple answer is- I don't.
I don't believe man is a rational being. There is no evidence for such. There is ample evidence to believe I am a member of a species that is inherently irrational but given to brief moments of sanity. This is worse than being 100% irrational all the time. It is like being sighted for 10 minutes per day and blind the rest of the time.
It is difficult to have a discussion with anyone. Within two minutes, factions form, infighting ensues and people become more interested in being victorious than with the truth itself. I am just as guilty of this as anyone and because of this I am even less impressed with the world than I would be if I were on a "holier than thou" trip. My own guilt damns the world further in my eyes.
At any rate, I wouldn't try to read to much into my screen name. It describes me, but not in the way some would at first think.
I would just like to know what the point of these threads are but will not ask because I will not get an honest answer- from anyone. To simply ask the question is to get stereotyped. To simply ask any number of questions is to get placed into a ghetto of thought. I won't bother.
Ok, so you're not asking, but I will give you my perspective anyway.
I initially found these science threads very interesting. I had access as a freeper to many very fine and well-educated minds, and I enjoyed the exchange of information. As time has progressed, however, these threads have been taken over by unnamed individuals with an agenda. The agenda has not been an honest exchange of ideas or viewpoints, but rather an attempt to discredit and hopefully eliminate genuine science from this forum.
As Conservatives, I and my fellow FR scientists are all too aware of the common misperception that highly educated people are by nature, Liberals. By participating and defending our positions within these threads, it is hoped that those misperception can be dispelled.
Unfortunately we, like all other humans, sometimes let emotions get the better of us...thus, the food-fights.