Carl Sagan Religion Mystics Believers Vs Knowers

[7j8i9m]

I am an absolute moron, unfit to waste the oxygen that I am currently consuming. I am a YouTube commenter.

[bmxerdude222]

Astrology has no basis in science?... well to begin science and religion were one at one point in time. Then they diverged, as what is known as the illuminati. no one really knows, until you have reached full illuminifcation.. Everyone is out their for the raw facts... that is the beauty of life it is a mystery. If they knew everything about anything, there would really be nothing to live for. nothing to hope for, or have faith in..... whether its real or not, its not bad to BELIEVE...

[Slavestorms]

@bmxerdude222 Why just beLIEve in things? Its much better to know one thing than to beLIEve a million things.

Most people would rather pretend to know something by beLIEving what they were told rather than seek out the truth

Freud said it best. "People don't prefer illusions. They demand illusions"

Fill in the blanks with fantasy. I'm too busy working, shopping, breeding, paying taxes, staying where I am and continuing to do what I was trained to do by the tell lie vision.

[WORLDARYANREVIVAL]

@Slavestorms "beLIEving" mr. SAGAN would laugh at you! really ? thats so ghetto pseudo semantic linguistic mumbo jumbo! please dont extrapolate like that... dont do that play on words shit...its childish! as childish as astrology!!!

[smokalot5100]

@bmxerdude222 it IS bad to believe. Mysticism is the war against man's mind. If your personal beliefs are based on desperation, self-sacrifice, and irrational superstition then you're are harming the species. Plain and simple, you can't have religion without altruism, same with communism and Naziism. This is the war against the individual. Are you someone unique, or are you simply part of the group? DO NOT BELIEVE anything that cannot be objectively proven.

[cjunk351]

@bmxerdude222 The two were seperated becuase it was observed that mystic nonesense was a useless addon.

[retrocareermelted]

its not real its just fun to pretend

[caseybv74]

They flying spaghetti monster created the universe. RAmen!

[jonesgerard]

Who the hell cares what astrologers claim, sagan was an elitist smug.

Or is that a smug elitist.?

[Jellogel]

Did anyone catch the newspaper headline at 2:48 ? "The Beatles Are Back!" I wonder what that ended up being about ?

[AsylumSeaker]

There's also really nothing stopping one from having both astronomical and astrological knowledge. Many people these days are strangely bent on needing to have all the 'facts' and throw out any idea that isn't 'provable'. Thing is, a lot of the time it might make a person happier to look at the world from a fantastical or mystical viewpoint. There's really nothing stopping you from having full knowledge of astronomy and astrology and utilising either/both sets of ideas whenever you feel like it.

[CipherSpectre]

Carl Sagan is right. Astrology has no basis in science.

[AClarke2007]

@CipherSpectre But it`s used to randomly generate Mind control techniques when the controllers run out of excuses. Mind control techniques based on scientific fact!

[SanFransiscoDreaming]

I'm not sure i agree with any of you..

but i liked this video,

just as i like any video, book, or communication

that raises skepticism.

because i think were never skeptic enough,

and the more people question, and take the time to evaluate and re-evaluate their beliefs.. the more were likely to have that 'utopia' you all speak of so eagerly.

[TheAwesomeClub]

Everybody commenting on this video is an idiot, myself included.

[keggerous]

u can only speak for urself

[LeManondesSources]

@TheAwesomeClub b lol :)

[ReverendPrice]

@TheAwesomeClub After a year your top comment still holds true. :(

[meatwad788]

One note, I really doubt they are monitoring even half of our phones. Why?

Manpower.

Funding.

Do you honestly believe they assign a guy to monitor all the calls and texts you and two or three other people make in a giant room with a bunch of other people doing the same thing for 12 hours a day? Or has the government used their secret A.I. technology to do it for them? Or is it automated. If I leave my friend a voice mail and say only the words "Obama Assassin Bomb." will that trip their sensors?

[meatwad788]

And before you accuse me of blowing off your claims and thoughts and judging you before I meet you I would like to inform you I don't care about you or anything you do. You don't affect anyone or anything in the grand scale of things. So, diet Coke causes brain tumors, who knew? School is a scam to put us all in debt, why didn't I see it sooner.

I hope people like you still continue to express your views on into the future to provide me with entertainment and a good laugh now and then.

[Slavestorms]

You are trained to beLIEve what you do. You think your government, god and local football team all the very best there is

You don't even acknowledge your own debt slavery, political prison. You ignore evidence of corruption and fail to even register events like Waco and the government using WMD's on it's own citizens.

Lying puppetdents, rising police brutality and economic collapse are all part of your Utopia. They pass new laws, tap everyone's phones and have terror watch lists all for you.

[meatwad788]

Taking on all of your beliefs is an imposing task and one I do not want to undertake, because as stated before, you affect nothing. But I would like you to answer one question, humor me.

So the government is tapping all or the majority of American's phones. Why do you care so much (stress on "so much")? If you call your roommate and tell him to pick up milk, are you afraid the CIA operative listening in will slide tackle your roommate and steal the milk? A ridiculous example I know but come on.

[VideoNoob22]

Why care?

Oh I dunno, the simple fact that the government would be tapping into it's own citizens conversations?

[meatwad788]

I never said it was morally right. How does it effect the life of you, or me or anyone else who has nothing to hide (unless you, in fact, do have something to hide). The CIA/NSA doesn't care about you calling your friends, family or significant other. The these government agencies aren't massive bodies of people with infinite people and funds. If "Big Brother" watching you is that important to you, boycott all use of your phone, get an IP blocker, do SOMETHING other than whining about it.

[Slavestorms]

Do you think your liberties just evolved naturally? It was all from political dissidents that got together and planned activities to expose the corruption, foment dissent and cause change.

If the state is allowed to scare people into silence things will continue to progress back into tyranny.

You dishonor your forefathers that fought and died to bring freedumb to their descendants.

Just because you have no interest in politics doesn't mean they don't have people working 24/7 on Policing you.

[geminirat60]

@Slavestorms it must be miserable being you

[jimmyjammera]

@Slavestorms ... i think you both misunderstand Carl Sagan very much...firstly, Meatwad, you heavily undermine the concepts of Carl Sagan.. in the whole Grand "Scheme" of Things, Carl Sagan wanted to heavily emphasize the fact that our populations ignorance as a whole would ultimately destroy us in the long run.. for example, dependence on foreign oil, ethnic,spiritual,and racial differences, and those in power who undermine the will and what's best for their people for personal gain...

[jimmyjammera]

@Slavestorms Carl Sagan does not support any of your outrageous claims.. and pieces of shit like you shouldn't use dead people to try and do so.. that is all.. you pseudoscience fuck.

[jimmyjammera]

@Slavestorms .. one more thing.. do yourself, and everyone else here a favor, and i would like you to go out and purchase a book, it is called The Demon Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark by Carl Sagan.. i think it has the answers you've been looking for. it is relatively inexpensive.

[meatwad788]

Love the video, and the description! What an excellent parody of credibility seeking "grassroots" pseudo political, pseudo political and pseudo spiritual "truth seekers". At least, I hope it was an intentional parody for your sake....

[Solin012]

How funy! what he said at the end that astrologers don't agree among themselves, the same kind of incident is goin on among scientist like this guy, well this guy is gone. but scientist still are not agreeing in many subjects, and the things is that they will never understand the universe because the puny brain that they are using is not the same brain that created the universe.

[cliftongs]

Jesus loves you and God bless you my friend:-)

[fenc3r]

It's funny seeing a pseudo-science supporter posting a Carl Sagan anti-pseudo-science video to support his position.

[Slavestorms]

It's even funnier to see a pseudo intellectual purporting to know my mind and label me a pseudo something without ever meeting me

While I appreciate your attempted review I have my doubts that you can even define science or the word pseudo

[fenc3r]

Science refers to knowledge (or the system of knowledge) obtained through the scientific method. Pseudo-science would be something that tries to appear scientific but is not.

The info on the right clearly demonstrates the kind of stance your trying to incite. You want people to swallow wild claims without questioning them or demanding evidence.

[mgayford]

Its even funnier to see people arguing on the internet...

[likemusicwhat]

Ya...that is a crazy idea...the perfect suicide

[TruthSurge]

2:45 Gene Simmons with his mouth open as usual. HEHE

[b6gm6n]

"fuzzy thinking and pious fraud" reminds me of Blossom Goodchild and her 'UFOs of light'

[blaziermissy]

Why can't the people and leaders of our world let go of TRADITION and the world advance? Religion is tradition....humanity has the power to have a TRULY wonderful world to live in, yet leaders will not adhere due to their TRADITION, Superstition, addictions, and GREED.

[wdgeo]

one word: control.

[mikelewchuk]

my hero...