Thursday, May 28, 2015

Bill Nye appears on Comedy Central to make an important point. (Video from Inside Amy Schumer so very NSFW.)

Now that was quite funny, and obviously quite crude, but it was also very on point.

It is a known fact that human sapiens are good at recognizing patterns, and identifying cause and effect, and that it played no small part in our intellectual development.

But what is also true is that we sometimes see patterns where they do not exist, and see a cause and effect that really only exists in our imaginations.

That is essentially the space that for many people is occupied by God, but for those who are less religious may play host to their idea of fate, or the karma, or, as in this skit, the universe.

And trust me people can be just as obnoxiously convinced that the universe is talking to them directly, as religious people are that God sent them a sign by having a bird poop an image of the Virgin Mary on their car window.

The simple truth is that what we often perceive in the world around us is completely subjective.

The trick is to remove the rose colored glasses and see the reality as it is, no matter how much that reality may terrify us at first.

Sure to believe that a god, or the universe itself, is watching out for us, or has our back, might be comforting. But it is also just this side of psychotic. 

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:42 AM

    That was superb. I guess we can now add "the universe" to the six to twelve word vocabulary of twenty-somethings. We'll know that the word has made it when the Kardashian trollops start talking about things being "so the universe."
    Beaglemom

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  2. Sharon5:55 AM

    That video is so cool....I am addicted to Amy, now watching my hero Bill Nye use the F bomb in one of her shows...OMG!!
    I record all her shows and I am way behind watching, she is such an original comic and her writers are awesome. Love it

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  3. CJumper11:54 AM

    I love Bill Nye.

    He put the Gal back in galaxy!

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  4. Anita Winecooler5:35 PM

    I know people exactly like that, they feel the universe is a huge oija board where you get whatever you want to happen. The universe and karma don't work that way, neither does religion.
    Bill Nye Rocks!!!

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  5. One word: Deteriorata
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey6ugTmCYMk

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  6. That was pretty funny.

    Of course the people it was directed at will never get it.

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