tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post4715012435902797950..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Time marches onGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-10953194847870958172017-01-05T21:09:57.528-08:002017-01-05T21:09:57.528-08:00Excellent post, Gordon. (I could happily comment d...Excellent post, Gordon. (I could happily comment daily here). <br /> Ok, had I the gumption to write on this subject, (after an exhausting day, in your case teaching and in mine, terraforming Israel), my points-list would have been uncannily similar to yours. Understandable, having long ago noticed the convergence of our interests and 'big picture' grasp of Reality. And yes, point by point, you expressed my own thoughts, only more entertainingly. Half-way through, I hoped, and was not disappointed to see, that you ID-ed the Natural Year One. And I awaken every morning saddened that, barring entropic revolutions, I may not be lucky enough to enjoy the next 13+ billion Skeptophilia gems. <br />Human history is written by the victors. (We Jews call the year 5700-something; (post apple-strudel-party??) But any rational pure-hearted, immune-to cultural-delusions homo sapiens is well-advised to simply look upwards, to note Venus' travels in the sky, among a host of longer-scale 'progress', and then declare '2017' a sad 'book-keeping' artifact. <br /> (Ignoring, for discussion purposes, that it has as good a chance as the Cuban Missle Crisis year was, to be the End of Times...<br />That said, enjoy your up-state pastorale while it lasts, my friend/ JS jsolberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06841488269105958013noreply@blogger.com