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**leahjhburton** · 02-03-2009, 07:02 AM

While I agree with the core of what he is saying, about putting humanities disagreements over the millennia in their place. He has a rather bleak outlook on life that I don't just don't subscribe to for obvious reasons.

He didn't have a 'bleak outlook on life'. He wasn't an idealist, he wasn't liberal or conservative, he wasn't religious or atheist. He was simply a realist. He analyzed situations and ideas and theologies and theories and beliefs and came to conclusions that were as unbiased and as fact based as possible. He understood how small we are in this universe, this galaxy, even this solar system. And that's EXACTLY how each and every one of us should be. We need to stop being so arrogant about who we are, and how important we think we are. We need to realize that no one is going to save us from our wordly mistakes and we can wipe ourselves out in a heartbeat if we don't respect our planet and realize that it can and absolutely WILL run out of resources.

02-03-2009, 07:02 AM	#13
leahjhburton Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	While I agree with the core of what he is saying, about putting humanities disagreements over the millennia in their place. He has a rather bleak outlook on life that I don't just don't subscribe to for obvious reasons. He didn't have a 'bleak outlook on life'. He wasn't an idealist, he wasn't liberal or conservative, he wasn't religious or atheist. He was simply a realist. He analyzed situations and ideas and theologies and theories and beliefs and came to conclusions that were as unbiased and as fact based as possible. He understood how small we are in this universe, this galaxy, even this solar system. And that's EXACTLY how each and every one of us should be. We need to stop being so arrogant about who we are, and how important we think we are. We need to realize that no one is going to save us from our wordly mistakes and we can wipe ourselves out in a heartbeat if we don't respect our planet and realize that it can and absolutely WILL run out of resources.
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