----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:55:13 -0800 To: "eric stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Somethingness
> Eric, > > The job of the scientist (western thinking) is to find consequences - > things that happen as the result of another happening. Best of all is the > invariable consequence - the consequence that always happens. We call such > inevitable consequences - Natural laws. > the job of the scientist must exercise limits or limits will be imposed on the scientist: sir francis bacon, noted hermetic thinker and alchemist, said, "..only under vexation will nature reveal her secrets.." just like a wealthy, stuck-up man to say that if she won't give it up force it. i prefer the words of gandalf the grey, hence j.r.r. tolkien: 'he who destroys a thing to know what it is has left the path of wisdom" this is not to to say that one must have HAD to have succeed in destroying ANYTHING to head down that path, which is what i submit that using the intellect to connect, in any way, with the truth is self-defeating by the way, http://www.memes.org -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup One click access to the Top Search Engines http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom
