-Caveat Lector- "Ric Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > # MAGNETS REVEAL BRAIN FUNCTIONS. The more we discover about our > > > materialistic brain functions, the fewer aspects there are of our > > > humanity that may be due to an immaterial "soul." > > > http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/magnetism.html > > > > There's more to us than surgeons can remove. I know this without > > doubt from uncanny dreams I've had. There's no physical explanation > > for it. Ditto stories where people have gone "out of body" and > > reported things there's no way they could physically have known. > > See also a book, "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation." If > > people want to be atheists, that's okay. But I disagree with > > their materialistic viewpoint. For a time I was agnostic, but > > I became convinced beyond doubt that there's more than the > > material world. > > Are explanations that invoke one or more arbitrarily/infinitely > complex supernatural entities/forces useful? Are such explan- > ations more likely to be correct than simpler materialistic > explanations? If some phenomena can't be explained by material > means now, does that mean that they can NEVER be so explained? > > Once you've invoked magic to explain something, you're stuck, > aren't you? You've said that there's some inexplicable mystery > there, some singularity that's not amenable to further inquiry. > Now you're at a dead end. Good scientific theories always make > predictions, pointing to new areas of inquiry, new avenues to > explore. Magic, religion, just stop cold, leaving you to do > noting but worship or vegetate or masturbate. Bother. > "Magic, mysticism, and mathematics are triplets"--Aleister Crowley. "Magic" is often just another name for physics... Remember Clarke's Law: "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." For all I know, there are really captive elves inside my monitor painting this image on the screen. By comparison with my grandfather's slide rule, the 400MHz, 6.4GB HDD machine I'm using might as well be powered by elemental salamanders held captive by a sorcerous cantrip as by the Pentium II chip it "actually" uses. Skepticism is a two- (or more) edged sword...and I find that it pays to be as skeptical of materialist claims as I am of knee-jerk spiritualist claims. Magic *works*; religion works (for me); science works, most of the time. "If it works, it's probably true." (P.E.I. Bonewits, *Real Magic* [1978]) Bob "Have you driven a Fnord lately?" Tatman ================================= Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
