On 21 Apr 2014, at 01:39, Chris de Morsella wrote:
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Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:54 PM
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Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.
On 4/19/2014 9:01 PM, Samiya Illias wrote:
Including Uri Geller, UFOs, a thousand people who want to "prove
Einstein wrong", Borley Rectory, the people trying to sell me
something from Nigeria, the Loch Ness monster, Ouija boards, Thor,
Zeus, Odin and so on - yes, no doubt one shouldn't dismiss anything,
but life's too short not to prioritise.
Too short, yes! Prioritize, yes! Especially because if there is a
purpose to this life, and especially if there is more to life after
death, and if this short life is but a test, whose result is
eternal, then we better study earnestly. Difficult, yes, impossible,
no!
"It's an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe
something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations
with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
---- Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
And how could it be otherwise... religion has always been a tool of
the state to mind control the slaves with promises of rewards in the
thereafter in exchange for loyalty, obedience and service throughout
the span of actual life; balanced with threats of eternal damnation
for falling out of line. The narrative of religion after religion
seems tailor made, -- by their acts shall they be known -- for the
imposition of the centralized authority totalitarian mindset. Marx
got it right when he compared it to Opium; and I apologize for
hurting anyone's feelings who may believe in some deity or other.
I think it is important to distinguish the pursuit of self-
awareness, enlightenment, transcendence, spiritual self-realization...
these are exquisitely personal acts and pursuits that have mostly
been discouraged, frowned upon and often repressed by force and
threat by the forces of organized religion. Free thinking and the
spirit of questioning dogma is not something any religion tolerates
(except in rare moments of flowering, say the Golden period of
Moorish Cordoba)
Indeed. As Einstein knew, even the religion of "free-thinking"
generates its own dogma. Free thinking is a protagorean virtue: it
obeys []p -> ~p. I got evidence from Brussels university, where you
have to sign an allegeance to "free-thinking", and then have to defend
dogmatically Aristotelian theology, i.e. the belief in a *primitive*
physical universe.
So genuine free thinker will think freely without ever saying that
they are thinking freely. They will simply never use such an
expression, except in meta-debate where free-thinking is the object of
discussion.
Note that believing in the God of comp entails the practice of free-
thinking, as faith, here, will invite reason to not fear any argument.
Only bad faith hides data and fear theories.
Bruno
Chris
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