"I gave up on my species" - George Carlin

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[SaziSkylion]

This guy is so right. We're given everything, but we throw it all away for money and being manipulated by religious nutjobs. I'm not an atheist, but I wholly agree with a lot of things George Carlin had to say, and firmly believe that he was one of the world's most intelligent and wise human beings to have ever lived.

He doesn't tell you how it should be, he tells you how it is.

Rest in Peace Mr. Carlin.

[GoongalaGoongala]

We're still a young species, only barely out of the trees. The question is will be be able to hold off on destroying ourselves long enough so that we can actually meet our true potential. Right now we look pretty doomed, but as we haven't blown ourselves up yet we still have a shot. Carlin was pretty pessimistic,and he had good reason to be, we're assholes as a species, but nothing is set in stone and the future is up to us.

I hope Carlin was wrong and we do make it.

[Ebvardh]

@DudeRevolution I like this thought.

I like Carlin's thoughts too, but this one is quite sincere.

[DudeRevolution]

And for that, Carlin will always only be a jester in this great story of life. Imagine if people like John Locke, Martin Luther King, Aristotle, or Lennon just sat back with a 'notebook' and watched the human race crumble. The best way for evil to succeed is to have good men do nothing.

[strongi300000]

@kimonbees I'm not saying that god is for the uneducated, i would say the not so smart ;) it is proven the higher the I.Q. the less likely someone believes in god. have faith/belief in that.

[kimonbees]

@vjwebster But who are you to judge what ''real'' education is? Just because someone works in the American Academy of Science and has a degree in physics (let's say) doesn't mean they're more educated than someone who works as a journalist or a teacher. Anyway, we're going into a different discussion :P I don't believe in religion, but God to me means love, mother nature, goodness etc. The idea of God isn't bad, it's religion that people fuck up.

[finchie24]

WOW George...you read my mind :))

[Xecutioner2023]

42 people wants a phone that'll make em pancakes and rub their balls.

[vjwebster]

@kimonbees When I say educated (or un-) I mean a real education - one based on reason and science.

Not Faith School. Home Schooling or Pat Robertson's law school.

Doesn't it strike you as odd that in an overwhelmingly religious nation (the likes of which are found elsewhere only in the Muslim world), 93% 0f members of the American Acadamy of Science do not believe in God (and some if not most of the 7% may just not have the guts to "come out")

Maybe they know something you don't.

[kimonbees]

@vjwebster Err I think that's a bit of an overstatement. I agree with Carlin when he talks about the pressurizing extremism that has manifested in Christianity, but that doesn't mean that believing in God is only for the uneducated. God can mean many things to many different people, it's the way religion is interpreted that defines the intellectualism of the person.