© Glendon Mellow, The Flying Trilobite

Isn’t this enough?

An homage to the unconditional love of reality. One of the wittiest and best-done bits I’ve seen in ages and ages. (Caution: Rated R for language. Deep breath, you’ll be okay.)

This was written on Friday, 06. March 2009 at 17:26 and was filed under Kerfuffles, Science, critical thinking, humor, myths, values. You can keep up with the comments to this article by using the RSS-Feed.

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  1. An English friend of mine turned me on to Tim Minchin a little while back and lately I’ve had Storm in my head a lot. I love this bit:

    Isn’t this enough?
    Just this world?
    Just this beautiful, complex
    Wonderfully unfathomable world?

    It so perfectly sums up how I feel when somebody assumes that I lead a cold, robotic, heartless existence just because I don’t believe in a god or an afterlife. There’s a myth out there that science isn’t beautiful. Nothing could be less true!

    Comment: spark – 06. March 2009 @ 10:45 pm

  2. Ha, and *now* I notice that you titled your post from the same bit. Time for bed!

    Comment: spark – 06. March 2009 @ 10:46 pm

  3. I almost -almost- turned it off when he said “beat poem”.

    Glad I stuck it out. Pretty awesome.

    Comment: Glendon Mellow – 07. March 2009 @ 2:07 am

  4. DO NOT let the words Beat Poem or Nine Minutes put you off. This is well worth a listen or ten. Tim Minchin is both hillarious and insightful.

    Comment: ARC – 07. March 2009 @ 2:55 am

  5. I love it! Thanks for sharing this. I hadn’t heard of him before, and now he has a new fan.

    Comment: emilyb3 – 07. March 2009 @ 1:55 pm

  6. I’m with Glendon – nearly turned it off just due to style (yeah, some open mind I’ve got, eh?) – but I stuck it out and…

    Loved it. Thank you for opening my eyes a little bit wider to the various styles of expression we humans can enjoy.

    Comment: Ron – 07. March 2009 @ 7:05 pm

  7. This was wonderful, thanks. This is my favorite part:

    Science adjusts its beliefs based on what’s observed
    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved

    Many thanks for this. Gonna share with the fambly.

    Comment: megmcg – 09. March 2009 @ 10:06 am

  8. I love this poem! I saw it a little while back on Pharyngula, but it was removed almost immediately afterwards due to a copyright issue. I’ve seen it in writing in a few other places, but it’s just not the same as hearing it. This one is of better quality than the first one I heard, so maybe it will stay around. I’m going to put it up on my blog as well, and I’m downloading it so that I can at least have a copy for myself. Thanks for sharing it.

    Comment: boonxeven – 10. March 2009 @ 5:15 am

  9. This perfectly captures why I am no longer invited to dinner parties.

    Comment: Jeffrey Goldberg – 28. November 2009 @ 11:39 am

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