You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking with your host Thomas Smith.

This is episode 150. That's kind of a milestone, right?

Ah, party. Anyway, let's celebrate that very important milestone by getting to part two of pale blue dot.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated.

It was great, it was fun, and I think it's a really good concept and I'm very excited to continue it

So I guess that's all I have to say. Let's get right back to those segments. My next guest is Jay.

I'm going to be part of the reading club.

Thank you so much for coming on and for being part of the reading club.

What's the first part of pale blue dot that

you'd like to talk about today? I like to talk about the first part of the book, the

intro, and I guess the first four chapters where Carl Sagan I think talks a lot about our

place in the Cosmos and some of these I guess kind of deeply held intuitions and beliefs we have about our place in the

Cosmos and how they may not we don't exactly fit into those.

There's a couple quotes I'd like to...

Ah, sure, that sounds great.

That kind of encapsulate this, so we won't have to go into too much detail.

But just a couple of things that I noticed he touched on

that a lot of other books and discussions

about belief don't go into too much detail but I think are pretty important.

Let me just read this one quote.

Sure.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged

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