James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "Worlds Without End", 2 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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[PaulUmbarger]

01:00 - Some Europeans burned witches to get rid of rampant sicknesses and such whereas some other cultures sacrificed humans to appease gods to get rid of sicknesses. Similar cures for similar afflictions but, with vastly different reasoning.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

'tis true. But in that case I'd say the reasoning is not *that* vastly different. To appease an evil god seems not much different from destroying an evil spirit's earthly incarnation. In the 2nd case one assumes tacitly that they are appeasing not only God [the Monotheistic version] but also showing "mercy" to the victim through it's eradication.

- JBW

[mdiem]

@HiveRadical

@ 1:37 !

[TheLastBrainLeft]

As I said on other parts of this episode, Burke is pretty much laying out the problems of climate change, a good decade before it became the contentious issue it is today. This whole "science is settled thing" and those who dissent are dismissed as charlatans stuff us nothing new.

[TonkarzOfSolSystem]

It's logical and rational only given certain premises, which may be wrong.

[rentatrip1]

so we live on a planet where ignorant rag heads live in caves and perceive humans living in North America are the devil and so must be killed , some people on this planet still live as the Scots of 300 years ago...

[TheLastBrainLeft]

Let's see, she's good with her housework and she likes to have sex.....300 years ago, she's a witch, today, she's the ideal wife.

[wado1942]

I bought that same projector at a junk shot for $5. It has served me well through weekly movie screenings at work!

[PaulUmbarger]

Yeah! That is what I was on about! LOL! The two alternatives are pretty similar in so many ways. They might have been proceeding form different assumptions but, the end results were pretty much the same. Odd, isn't it?

[spacecricket]

bitchin!