fyeahcarlsagan: mywildloves: astrotastic: project-argus: I admit, while portrayals of him in saintly positions are funny and cute (I own the teefury shirt), when there get to be too many of them I get a little worried.  The creation of the term “Saganite” is especially telling of the following, and I don’t like that term.   Most of all, I should find it educational to see where he was wrong in his predictions or reasoning, enriching to know the flaws in his personality, yet admire his energy and message and intentions and impact.  This is reminder to myself, and this goes for any admired figure. Carl isn’t a god but dammit he’s a superhero in my book okay He is someone I greatly admire but I think they’re elevating him to a “saintly” position mainly to be ironic. The comments above always leave me with a mixed feeling. I usually agree with them and then play devil’s advocate with myself because I guess I have a guilty conscience and I feel like Im one of the people they’re talking about. Carl Sagan is a person I have the utmost respect for because he embodies everything that I believe in. The importance of science, education, creativity, wonder, skepticism and always being a hunter of absolute truths. He was flawed though, much like the rest of us. His real life persona was not the lovable Carl Sagan you know from Cosmos with his brown corduroy jackets sitting in that weird, futuristic, for some reason foggy and poorly lit “spaceship of our imagination”. He is not a god or a saint.  In a world of chaos and insanity though, when you wake up every day and see more and more of our society going to hell and  you wonder, “How did we get to this point? How do we get out of here?”, his voice is a reassuring and a hopeful one. I watch his videos and read his books (or listen to them at my computer at work) and its so refreshing to hear a person say so many things that just make sense.  Why is it that we always find fault in love?  People are putting this guy on a pedestal because he was one of a kind. There wasnt any other famous scientist that did for humanity what he has done, except maybe for Jane Goodall but unfortunately no one pays attention to her. Publicizing him, by any means whether you want to make a website dedicated to him or call yourself a “Saganite” or whatever, can only be good for society.  Hmm… Interesting commentary. What do you think?

fyeahcarlsagan:

mywildloves:

astrotastic:

project-argus:

I admit, while portrayals of him in saintly positions are funny and cute (I own the teefury shirt), when there get to be too many of them I get a little worried.  The creation of the term “Saganite” is especially telling of the following, and I don’t like that term.  

Most of all, I should find it educational to see where he was wrong in his predictions or reasoning, enriching to know the flaws in his personality, yet admire his energy and message and intentions and impact.  This is reminder to myself, and this goes for any admired figure.

Carl isn’t a god but dammit he’s a superhero in my book okay

He is someone I greatly admire but I think they’re elevating him to a “saintly” position mainly to be ironic.

The comments above always leave me with a mixed feeling. I usually agree with them and then play devil’s advocate with myself because I guess I have a guilty conscience and I feel like Im one of the people they’re talking about. Carl Sagan is a person I have the utmost respect for because he embodies everything that I believe in. The importance of science, education, creativity, wonder, skepticism and always being a hunter of absolute truths. He was flawed though, much like the rest of us. His real life persona was not the lovable Carl Sagan you know from Cosmos with his brown corduroy jackets sitting in that weird, futuristic, for some reason foggy and poorly lit “spaceship of our imagination”. He is not a god or a saint. 

In a world of chaos and insanity though, when you wake up every day and see more and more of our society going to hell and  you wonder, “How did we get to this point? How do we get out of here?”, his voice is a reassuring and a hopeful one. I watch his videos and read his books (or listen to them at my computer at work) and its so refreshing to hear a person say so many things that just make sense. 

Why is it that we always find fault in love?  People are putting this guy on a pedestal because he was one of a kind. There wasnt any other famous scientist that did for humanity what he has done, except maybe for Jane Goodall but unfortunately no one pays attention to her. Publicizing him, by any means whether you want to make a website dedicated to him or call yourself a “Saganite” or whatever, can only be good for society. 

Hmm… Interesting commentary. What do you think?

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