Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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ORIGINAL: bipolarber
Science touches every single part of out lives. It is infinitely more important that mere religion, which is a "feel good" measure, at best. (self delusion, at worst). Try to get up in the morning and try to NOT use anything that is the product of scientific research done in the last 75 years. The span of a single human lifetime. I think you'll find, that you can't. From the lights you turn on, the clock by the bedside, the electricity to run them, you shaver, the toothpaste, the water system that supplies you with clean, healthy agua from the tap, the TV you flip on to get the news, the satillites that supply you with accurate information on the next coming hurricane, the food you prepare for breakfast, the car you drive to work (including the metals and plastics and synthetics that make up the car itself, and the clothing you wear) the medications you pop to keep your blood pressure level, or cure that pesky headache, or gave you that wonderful stiffie that your gf enjoyed the night before... and the tools and systems you use in your daily employment... ALL of them are the products of basic scientific reseach...
And that research is then used to fuel an enconomy made of of industries that USE that fucking information as the basis for creating new, better, and more competative products.
So kindly STFU about how you want to kill the god-damned economy, and send the US to the back of the line when it comes to being the leader in new and better ways of doing things, just because you gripe about how the NSF charged you the equivilent of one can of beer in your precious tax money.
Seriously, your luddite attitude is just making you look like an ass.
Oh true, science has helped us all, and without science we would not be where we are today, right or wrong. But the problem I have with science is the belief that it exists for the bettterment of mankind, when quite clearly it is not. My problem with they that like to experiment in things that can cause catastrophe, what gives them that right ? Is it our worship of science has gone so far that scientists can never do any wrong ?
Often it is we are convinced of how wonderous new developments are because of science, when in reality they become superfluous heaps of junk that if you do not have a science degree, or are a technophile, you cannot fathom.
I refer to all these gadgets we have that promise to do so many different things, gadgets that require endless messing about with, programs and more rograms just to achieve something, that although wonderous at the time, quickly pale into uselessness.
How many here can be bothered with all the multi programs on the electronic gadgets they have, are they that worthwhile ?
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha
Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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