<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 12:02 Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> have a hard time understanding the incredible hubris required to look at some squiggles from telescopes to decide the fate of the universe. We may have admitted that the earth orbits the sun, but it feels like we still believe the universe solely for us - maybe it does, but asserting that as truth feels analogous to flat-earth assertions.</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hubris is the mask but not the core. The core is insecurity and fear of the unknown. Fear of death. Fear of consicousness having no place in current models of the universe. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Fear of tautology. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is very clear, in my opinion. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The geocentrists surely thought they were on the cutting edge as well.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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