RIP 2018
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@roninwc was Billy Graham really an arsehole? He was pretty prominent in civil rights and helped Martin Luther King. Even paid his bail to get him out of jail one time.
I guess it depends if his commitment to civil rights based on race is balanced out by his lack of commitment to civil rights in regards to sexual orientation?
Wasn't he the one who spawned televangelism? I reckon he could probably be considered an arsehole for that alone even if he didn't personally fleece his viewers like the ones who followed.
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Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
Really? Like most august mathematicians and physicists, the great work was done early in his life. It would have been a true loss had ALS taken him in line with the original prediction.
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@jegga
Yes, whilst he did some good things as you have mentioned, we cannot gloss over the negatives like much of the press he has received since passing:Anti-jewish, anti-feminist who supported "traditional gender roles", which is effectively characterized as female submission. Anti LGBTQI. etc.
One of those instrumental in the rise of mega churches and evangelical Christianity which are truly blights on humanity.
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@antipodean said in RIP 2018:
Whilst I understand the sentimentality behind morning the actors, singers, rugby legends (and near legends) and one total fuck off asshole - Billy Graham...
But then there are true greats who should be recognized and who's loss should be mourned appropriately and Stephen Hawking is one of those. A truly great man who's work has stretched the bounds of science, particularly theoretical physics, which will leave a mark on mankind for a long time.
Lived way longer than expected, much to humanities benefit.
This is a true loss.
Really? Like most august mathematicians and physicists, the great work was done early in his life. It would have been a true loss had ALS taken him in line with the original prediction.
I think you are confused, sure manyt of the big break throughs typically come in the earlier years but then they, mathematicians and physicists as you have suggested along with others, continue to work, continue to advance the various theory's.
Most of the advancement in science is made this way, small incremental steps forwards (and backwards), the "hard slog" so to speak.
Hawking had continued to work throughout his lifespan as much as his condition would allow, advancing the knowledge in theoretical physics including advancing our knowledge around black holes as an example.
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Totally amazed by the reaction on social media and the 15yos so absolutely inconsolable.
So far I have seen tweets mourning the loss of the best skateboarder of all time and that guy from the Simpson episode.
Many posts saying he's in Heaven now with Einstein theorising together. Neither believed in the after life.....Hello, scientists! FFS.
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@raznomore said in RIP 2018:
Totally amazed by the reaction on social media and the 15yos so absolutely inconsolable.
So far I have seen tweets mourning the loss of the best skateboarder of all time and that guy from the Simpson episode.
Many posts saying he's in Heaven now with Einstein theorising together. Neither believed in the after life.....Hello, scientists! FFS.
Just young dickwads getting on the bandwagon.
I have absolutely no idea what his books were about and I'm certainly not going to pretend he meant the slightest thing to me...
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The last minutes of the last male Northern White Rhino on the planet.
R.I.P.
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@salacious-crumb That's fucked. Absolutely no reason other than superstition and greed.
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@antipodean said in RIP 2018:
@salacious-crumb That's fucked. Absolutely no reason other than superstition and greed.
Accounts for a fair amount of evil in the world ...
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