--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" curtisdeltablues@ wrote: > > > > Doug: > > > > "which is corroborated by discoveries in modern physics and neuroscience, reveals an underlying cause: the build up of acute stress in the collective consciousness of societies, which fuels violence in the actions of man and imbalance in the events of nature." > > > > Me: > > > > There are scientific principles and theories in play here. The most important one is our mind's quest for order and explanation in a complex world. We see forms and shapes in random clouds and Jesus in a taco. It is what our mind does when faced with randomness or complexity. It is effortless and unconscious. > > > > The world seems like a safer, more understandable place if we can associate the thoughts we have in our heads with bad things like war and natural disasters. Oh, the opium of believing we can prevent these things from happening with our all powerful minds, like magic. > > > > And if you just spouted some religious belief that makes you feel all comfy inside, I wouldn't be tempted to write. But you had to throw in the term "science", perverting its meaning in a dishonest attempt to prop up religious beliefs as if they were based on established scientific method derived theories. This is wrong. I know who you learned it from. The spin master himself. > > > > And this thoery that victimizes the victim, as if the people of Japan had it coming from all their "stress" and "imbalance" compared to any other people in the world is sick. Do you really think that all the people in the drought in Africa deserve this? > > > > Well, the Hindu belief system does. And I guess as a pseudo-outcaste Hindu you might share the belief that all is well and wisely put, that no child dying in pain didn't earn it in a past life. And as much as I find that view repugnant, it doesn't rise to the level of deceptive communication as asserting that any of this nonsense is scientifically based. > > > > Own your beliefs. You believe spiritual claims because it makes sense to you and it makes you feel good. Fair enough. But you can drop the drop the pseudo-scientific 3 out of 4 dentists surveyed posturing. It just doesn't fly anymore. > > > > > > Golly, what a grump. You were a philosophy major? >
Philosophy is just intellectual gymnastics, it has nothing to do with reality. It talks, argues, creates magnificent systems of thought, but it does not change the man who is creating all this. He remains the same man. Osho. Ravi Yogi - he remains the same man, stumped, stunned and stunted by his intellectual hard-ons, a pimp (intellectual) in a co-dependent relationship with the whore (intellect).
