Bill Nye The Science Guy incurs the wrath of Fundamentalists

[laebedahs]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

Another one of the local slogans is : "Mt Shasta - Where Heaven Meets Earth"

I do count my blessings. It took 20 long years to be able to transfer here with the company for which I work. One does not land such a great location without much seniority.

Where abouts in Texas are you, if you do not mind my asking?

Mt. Shasta, California? Your cable company wouldn't happen to be Northland, would it?

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by laebedahs

Mt. Shasta, California? Your cable company wouldn't happen to be Northland, would it?

I have Northland as my cable provider but i do not work for them. You near here?

[twentycentshift]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

Another one of the local slogans is : "Mt Shasta - Where Heaven Meets Earth"

I do count my blessings. It took 20 long years to be able to transfer here with the company for which I work. One does not land such a great location without much seniority.

Where abouts in Texas are you, if you do not mind my asking?

i'm in ft. worth, and i work just outside of dallas. i'm working on that seniority thing. i work for a television network, and i only have 6 years under my belt.

i admit, i know absolutely nothing about mt. shasta. looks like i've been missing out.

do you take those pix yourself? there's an artist's eye behind them. my wife is a painter, and i am a musician. the arts pretty much rule our brains. its a good thing.

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by twentycentshift

do you take those pix yourself? there's an artist's eye behind them. my wife is a painter, and i am a musician. the arts pretty much rule our brains. its a good thing.

The pics on my link are done by the local celebrity photographer Kevin Lahey.

It took me 25 years to get enough seniority to get here. Redding CA or Medford OR are near here and have their own tv stations

[ashke]

Bill Nye! My teachers used to show his show to us in elementary school! He so rocks.

[xoxoxoBruce]

He's fun to watch and beneath that razzle dazzle, keep them entertained and tuned in, style, there is a very, very smart man.
There is plenty of highly educated scientists out there, but most of them can't explain much before putting me, at least, to sleep. When Bill Nye is on, I rage against the commercial breaks.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

He's fun to watch and beneath that razzle dazzle, keep them entertained and tuned in, style, there is a very, very smart man.
There is plenty of highly educated scientists out there, but most of them can't explain much before putting me, at least, to sleep. When Bill Nye is on, I rage against the commercial breaks.

My high school Physics teacher was like that. He was a very eccentric German with a pointy goatee - very out of place in a bad high school the deep south. A brilliant man who explained physics with incredible visual metaphors that became unforgettable and made it seem so simple and basic.

I understood Physics very well until my first college class when clarity gave way to obfuscation.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I understood Physics very well until my first college class when clarity gave way to obfuscation.

Absolutely.

[Dee]

now i believe in god but to be so blind and naive that they can't see what is in front of them is incredible. i don't see why science and religion can not co-exist. i am at the end of studying a science degree the more i learn and discover the more i am convinced that there must be a higher being then us because the more science tries to explain the less and less we truly know many situations things happen or work "just because it does"

[twentycentshift]

i saw that name, kevin lahey, when i was there. he's really a good photog.

i imagine that part of calif is gorgeous!!

[Cheyenne]

It is very beautiful. Wwhen work calls for the need to rove I do not mind it at all. Beauty in all directions.

[kwfinley]

I'd like to share three operative definitions -
Faith - basic tenants of your belief that govern your actions and interactions.
Religion - when you start insisting that others live by your faith.
Fanaticism - when you start killing people for not living by your beliefs.
The people in Waco haven't yet reached fanaticism and we pray they never will. As for science and faith coexisting, I don't have any problem. In fact, if you read Stephen Hawking's writing you find that he definitely believes in a supreme architect. It's only when people rely on ignorance and what other people tell them, instead of engaging in intelligent inquiry that we get incidents like Waco. But you already know that - I just thought you would find the definitions useful.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by kwfinley

I'd like to share three operative definitions -
Faith - basic tenants of your belief that govern your actions and interactions.
Religion - when you start insisting that others live by your faith.
Fanaticism - when you start killing people for not living by your beliefs.
The people in Waco haven't yet reached fanaticism and we pray they never will. As for science and faith coexisting, I don't have any problem. In fact, if you read Stephen Hawking's writing you find that he definitely believes in a supreme architect. It's only when people rely on ignorance and what other people tell them, instead of engaging in intelligent inquiry that we get incidents like Waco. But you already know that - I just thought you would find the definitions useful.

Welcome to the Cellar, kwfinley.
I think you've got it pretty close on the definitions, but I'd say Waco was the result of attracting the attention of the government.

[Flint]

I believe in !!! :::storms out of thread:::

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Flint

I believe in !!! :::storms out of thread:::

What IS that?