James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "Worlds Without End", 5 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 10, conclusion of James Burke's ground-breaking series "The Day The Universe Changed" discusses the differences between "Western" Scientific and other views of the world and nature. In particular, "our" world view to that of Buddhism or Buddhist "Monks". Series ends with an optimistic outlook for the future with the Internet's potential to bring all world views togther in a global community.

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[URProductions]

Somebody once asked me, "What's a fourteen letter word for freedom?"

I told him - "America."

[JamesBurkeWeb]

lol

[cprise]

My final thought is some advice:

Anyone who is trying to make you believe two mutually exclusive things at the same time is trying to get you to act according to a falsehood. And there is no more self-contradictory or mutually exclusive concept circulating today than a certitude that someone must be wrong because she knew something. It is the ultimate way to win debates without any work beyond acting charismatic and using cleaver turns of phrase.

cprise

[kewlmynd99]

I find it interesting how James alludes to social networking via computers over 10 years before there was even any main stream internet access and a full 20 years before it actually started to unfold...

[grandmachristine42]

@grandmachristine42 (cont) THOSE are our beliefs."

[grandmachristine42]

Hippie guru Steven Gaskin, asked "What are your group's spiritual beliefs?" said something like "Picture the old room-sized computers where everything was a hole in a card, a hole here means this, hole over here means this. So punch a hole in the right place for every spirtual belief there is. Now put the card in a neat stack and hold the stack to the light. You will se a few places where the hole goes all the way through the stack and you see light. (cont)

[grandmachristine42]

@kewlmynd99 Aired in '85. I was going to meetings in the 80's of several orgs where certain people would bring amazingly detailed handouts, with graphs and explanations and photos and histories drawn from seemingly everywhere sveral each week. I was mindblown. They had busy jobs (professors, lawyers); where did they find the time for all that every week? They reassured me that theyt were not gods, only people with access to computers.

[JasonV213]

@rockoqatsi I am from the future and can confirm your hypothesis.

[dreasim]

James Burke's work is pure awesome.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

@Timschoh Climate change is today's plate tectonics, today's Piltdown Man. This particular episode encapsulates everything that makes me a AGW skeptic. I may not understand the science, but I can understand the behavior of scientists. Unlike Wegener and continental drift, we still do not know who is right, the establishment or the dissenters on this issue.

[LucBertolotti]

@rockoqatsi I'm already doing it, except I'm not exactly amused. I'm pretty much seeing people saying things they dont understand and thinking "My God how stupid where the people who lived at the begining of 21 century" and now really get the feeling Galileo must had at the time (hopefully will not get burned or end in jail). Having said that, things could be much worse (just study history).

[rinchy100]

multiculture propaganda

[Ionian1006]

RE: his summation- Ultimately, this is a centrist view in that each of us is a viewpoint within ourselves and cannot actually relate to what anyone else believes.

Given that as a starting place...

[noobler9]

actually science gives us actual stuff to use, like say, pens, paper and so on