The Dragon in My Garage

An essay by Carl Sagan. Read by yours truly.

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[swaydam]

This argument could have been used to say that "germs" are an absurd fairy tale.

[morsec0de]

@swaydam Except for that little instrument they invented called a microscope.

[wasobee]

Nice video

my favorite part is" claimes that cannot be tested are worthless" if only everybody would use there common sense.

[swaydam]

ok, well let me make a new umm, comparison. Suppose there are intelligent lifeforms elsewhere in this universe. If they got word about us, humanity, and all the stupid stuff it does, I think they would consider the possibility of our existence to be so utterly unlikely as to be practically impossible.

[braklinath]

@franktastikar now of course, such a human that would be able to actually achieve such a state has been proven, and as far as it is known to me, to be 100% impossible to all mortals for all of our history, so of course such an energy has never been actually to be proven 100%. but hey, this is just one man's theory. as is the big bang. we were never there, we honestly dont know. I might be correct, I might be wrong. but at least it makes me open minded and caring to all possibilities in this life

[braklinath]

@franktastikar now you're probably going to say that this 'soul energy' I proposed is nonsense because our emotions and so on are easily explainable by studying the brain. but it goes much deeper than that of emotions.maybe even farther than a sub-conscience level... I don't know. honestly, this 'soul energy' if even real, would prove many things once though fiction, to be real. ghosts, magic, miracles, etc. one would just need to learn how to control it and BAM! they can manipulate the universe

[braklinath]

@franktastikar mazdaspeedmx512lbs never said anything about god. you're just assuming he is defending him/her/it. anyways, MIR's honestly can't detect them with physical matter. it's based off of energy. now, whether or not this is energy is purely biologically based (I doubt it) is debatable, but one thing it does prove, is the existence of the soul as energy. energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. so birth and death actually don't exist (energy wise). God is proven possible

[franktastikart]

@mazdaspeedmx512lbs sorry but feeling and emotions can be seen in the brain with a MIR and proving that they are a chemical reaction in the brain. and do not prov God is!

[Homerus]

Nice fuel for people who don't believe to keep not believing, useless.

[mazdaspeedmx512lbs]

I guess your spirit of pride does not exist because it is non physical. But yet your spirit of pride does exists. Envy is non physical does that mean envy does not exist? Spirit is more real than physical. Heaven & hell begin here & now. You can be heaven to others or hell to others.