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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2013, 06:17:42 pm »
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Perhaps he wants to see how many people will agree with him. I'm afraid he will not find many here -- for any of the threads I've seen him start. Oh well, perhaps he'll have better luck on some of those other boards.

 
Yeah not going to get an agreement here. Science is how I make my living.
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2013, 06:33:44 pm »
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Yeah not going to get an agreement here. Science is how I make my living.

 
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2013, 12:58:04 am »
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What is science?  Is it the best way to find out about the world we live in?  Is it the honest pursuit of knowledge?

The Faust legend is the truth about science: Faust sold his soul to the Devil for the sake of gaining all the knowledge in the world.  To be a scientist is to sell your soul to the Devil for the sake of knowledge.  This obviously requires a bit of explanation.

As a human being one is equipped with all sorts of senses that allow one to interact with the world, to ‘communicate’ with the world and everything in it.  The most obvious are the five senses that interact with the ‘real’ world: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  These are the easy ones, the undeniable, obvious ones.  But there are far more, the subtle ones, the ones that see below the surface of things, detect that which is not ‘present’ to the basic five senses, and these are the feelings, intuition and what one might call ‘sensations’.

Take, for example, feelings.  Suppose one is talking to someone and one becomes angry but there is no apparent reason for the anger.  If one confesses to the anger one would be called grumpy, or classed as an angry person, as though it is all just a matter of personality.  But this is not so.  Anger happens for a reason.  If you get angry talking to someone it is because they are doing something bad to you, even though you cannot see what that is.  

People can act a part, and that act can be very convincing, but you cannot fool the feelings.  So, someone might sound very pleasant, even charming, but they might well be trying to use their charm to manipulate others emotionally, to get attention, or to get them to do things for them.  This is where one’s feelings tell one that something is amiss, because your feeling detect INTENTION, they ‘see’ below the surface and sense what other people are REALLY about.

Then there is intuition.  Intuition is far more than just a ‘gut’ feeling.  Intuitions are the outcome of one’s subconscious ‘thinking’, the sophisticated type of thinking that is way beyond anything that computers can, or ever will, be able to do.  Intuition collects all one’s experiences, all one has learned from books or any other source, it listens to one’s ‘heart’ and collects the wisdom of dreams, it sees and understands what the feelings are saying, and from all that, in a flash, with a speed that would shame any computer, it tells one how to react in any situation; or it might deliver a flash of understanding or insight.  There is nothing more powerful than intuition.

Then there is one’s heart.  This is about the things one cares about and it is about likes and dislikes.  These are the things that make a person who they are.  They express one’s spirit.  There is an expression, ‘to become dispirited’, which means to lose interest in life, to lose motivation, to become depressed.  This is very accurate: if you do not pay heed to your spirit, do not nurture it, then you WILL lose interest in life.  And paying heed to your spirit means following your ‘heart’, in means allowing your own likes and dislikes, and your own special interest to lead you at all times.  That means that instead of following fashion, you develop your own tastes, whether it be in clothes, interior decoration, choice of interests or whatever.  You must ignore all advertising.  You must ignore all peer pressure.  You must listen only to your own heart.

If you ignore your heart then, apart from denying your own spirit, you also deny your own ‘destiny’.  Your destiny is about your dreams.  If as a child, or young person, you have a dream or ambition, (it can be anything, but it must come from the heart, so, e.g. dreaming of becoming a ‘star’ is not a ‘real’ dream, because it is not ‘from the heart’ – these sorts of ambitions are about competition and power, and have nothing to do with the heart.); so, if you have a dream, it is the ‘job’ of ‘fate’ to see to it that your dream comes true.  This means that fate has to plot a course through life that will give you all the experiences and learning opportunities that will enable you to achieve your dream.  If you follow your heart then you will actually be following the path fate has laid out for you, and you will finally realise your dreams.  If you do not follow your heart, then you will not achieve your dreams.

So, in the first place, there is a great deal more in the ‘world’ than scientific instruments can detect, and, in the second place, the ‘heartlessness’ of science denies the human spirit.  This is Faust: science will gain you knowledge, but in order to gain the knowledge of science you have to ignore your own heart and spirit, and that amounts to selling your soul.  But the legend goes further: it is to The Devil that Faust sells his soul.  This is because the source of all good is also in the heart and spirit.  It is the heart and spirit that tell you what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong, and, what’s more, if you follow the heart and spirit, then there is no conflict with other people – you will never find that what is good for you is bad for someone else.  Existence is wonderfully designed such that THERE IS NO CONFLICT.   The problems we encounter, the conflicts of interest, arise because people do NOT listen to their hearts and spirits.  So to deny the heart and spirit is to lose touch with right and wrong.  It is to lose that which knows what is good, and that is why it was the Devil to whom Faust sold his soul.

So science is totally inadequate as a means of dealing with the world, it cannot achieve real understanding or insight, it does not know what life is about, and it cannot tell right from wrong.

 
Ya know panta, can I call you that or do you prefer dragon or perhaps PD?

I am so happy you signed up here. Here I have been reading and learning form these people for the last 5 or 6 years and it turns out that none of them know anything at all. Thank God ( the right one of course) that you came along. Here I was getting all mixed up in that evil witchcraft and confused about science and my soul.

I have to warn you though. Folks here might ridicule you a bit. SOmetimes these threads turn to such silliness, folks start posting about unicorns, MLP, mermaids and stuff like that. If they are feeling particularly sick and twisted they start posting stuff out of actual textbooks and historical studies. THey know no mercy. But I have faith in your message.........
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #18 on: March 01, 2013, 01:29:44 am »
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Ya know panta, can I call you that or do you prefer dragon or perhaps PD?

I am so happy you signed up here. Here I have been reading and learning form these people for the last 5 or 6 years and it turns out that none of them know anything at all. Thank God ( the right one of course) that you came along. Here I was getting all mixed up in that evil witchcraft and confused about science and my soul.

I have to warn you though. Folks here might ridicule you a bit. SOmetimes these threads turn to such silliness, folks start posting about unicorns, MLP, mermaids and stuff like that. If they are feeling particularly sick and twisted they start posting stuff out of actual textbooks and historical studies. THey know no mercy. But I have faith in your message.........

 
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #19 on: March 01, 2013, 03:56:48 am »
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What is science?  Is it the best way to find out about the world we live in?  Is it the honest pursuit of knowledge?

The Faust legend is the truth about science: Faust sold his soul to the Devil for the sake of gaining all the knowledge in the world.  To be a scientist is to sell your soul to the Devil for the sake of knowledge.  This obviously requires a bit of explanation.

As a human being one is equipped with all sorts of senses that allow one to interact with the world, to ‘communicate’ with the world and everything in it.  The most obvious are the five senses that interact with the ‘real’ world: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  These are the easy ones, the undeniable, obvious ones.  But there are far more, the subtle ones, the ones that see below the surface of things, detect that which is not ‘present’ to the basic five senses, and these are the feelings, intuition and what one might call ‘sensations’.

Take, for example, feelings.  Suppose one is talking to someone and one becomes angry but there is no apparent reason for the anger.  If one confesses to the anger one would be called grumpy, or classed as an angry person, as though it is all just a matter of personality.  But this is not so.  Anger happens for a reason.  If you get angry talking to someone it is because they are doing something bad to you, even though you cannot see what that is.  

People can act a part, and that act can be very convincing, but you cannot fool the feelings.  So, someone might sound very pleasant, even charming, but they might well be trying to use their charm to manipulate others emotionally, to get attention, or to get them to do things for them.  This is where one’s feelings tell one that something is amiss, because your feeling detect INTENTION, they ‘see’ below the surface and sense what other people are REALLY about.

Then there is intuition.  Intuition is far more than just a ‘gut’ feeling.  Intuitions are the outcome of one’s subconscious ‘thinking’, the sophisticated type of thinking that is way beyond anything that computers can, or ever will, be able to do.  Intuition collects all one’s experiences, all one has learned from books or any other source, it listens to one’s ‘heart’ and collects the wisdom of dreams, it sees and understands what the feelings are saying, and from all that, in a flash, with a speed that would shame any computer, it tells one how to react in any situation; or it might deliver a flash of understanding or insight.  There is nothing more powerful than intuition.

Then there is one’s heart.  This is about the things one cares about and it is about likes and dislikes.  These are the things that make a person who they are.  They express one’s spirit.  There is an expression, ‘to become dispirited’, which means to lose interest in life, to lose motivation, to become depressed.  This is very accurate: if you do not pay heed to your spirit, do not nurture it, then you WILL lose interest in life.  And paying heed to your spirit means following your ‘heart’, in means allowing your own likes and dislikes, and your own special interest to lead you at all times.  That means that instead of following fashion, you develop your own tastes, whether it be in clothes, interior decoration, choice of interests or whatever.  You must ignore all advertising.  You must ignore all peer pressure.  You must listen only to your own heart.

If you ignore your heart then, apart from denying your own spirit, you also deny your own ‘destiny’.  Your destiny is about your dreams.  If as a child, or young person, you have a dream or ambition, (it can be anything, but it must come from the heart, so, e.g. dreaming of becoming a ‘star’ is not a ‘real’ dream, because it is not ‘from the heart’ – these sorts of ambitions are about competition and power, and have nothing to do with the heart.); so, if you have a dream, it is the ‘job’ of ‘fate’ to see to it that your dream comes true.  This means that fate has to plot a course through life that will give you all the experiences and learning opportunities that will enable you to achieve your dream.  If you follow your heart then you will actually be following the path fate has laid out for you, and you will finally realise your dreams.  If you do not follow your heart, then you will not achieve your dreams.

So, in the first place, there is a great deal more in the ‘world’ than scientific instruments can detect, and, in the second place, the ‘heartlessness’ of science denies the human spirit.  This is Faust: science will gain you knowledge, but in order to gain the knowledge of science you have to ignore your own heart and spirit, and that amounts to selling your soul.  But the legend goes further: it is to The Devil that Faust sells his soul.  This is because the source of all good is also in the heart and spirit.  It is the heart and spirit that tell you what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong, and, what’s more, if you follow the heart and spirit, then there is no conflict with other people – you will never find that what is good for you is bad for someone else.  Existence is wonderfully designed such that THERE IS NO CONFLICT.   The problems we encounter, the conflicts of interest, arise because people do NOT listen to their hearts and spirits.  So to deny the heart and spirit is to lose touch with right and wrong.  It is to lose that which knows what is good, and that is why it was the Devil to whom Faust sold his soul.

So science is totally inadequate as a means of dealing with the world, it cannot achieve real understanding or insight, it does not know what life is about, and it cannot tell right from wrong.

 
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2013, 08:42:51 am »
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Water is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.  Can science tell you that?

 
Dammit. Just when I thought I had found my great guru with PD there, you come along and post something like that and turn my world upside down again;)

I guess you're my Guru now...........
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2013, 09:21:41 am »
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Water is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.  Can science tell you that?

 
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2013, 11:52:51 am »
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I'll counter with my own question:

What is the point of posting the same/same sort of screed, seemingly randomly, all over the Interwebz?

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You have an obsession with the fact that you have found my posts elsewhere.  If it is not against forum rules, then there is no problem.  I do not feel any obligation to explain myself to you, particularly to some one who expresses such hostilityn towards me.

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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2013, 11:55:43 am »
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You have an obsession with the fact that you have found my posts elsewhere.  If it is not against forum rules, then there is no problem.  I do not feel any obligation to explain myself to you, particularly to some one who expresses such hostilityn towards me.

 
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2013, 12:06:48 pm »
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« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2013, 12:57:04 pm »
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Nope, hostilityn.  It's a hormone I release that enrages trolls.  It explains the current display.

Brina


Is that your mutant power then?

*sigh* I wish I could have extra hormones or sumpin.....
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2013, 01:15:07 pm »
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What is science?

A means of exploring the universe we live in that yields reproducible results.

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Is it the best way to find out about the world we live in?

It's one of the better ways.

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Is it the honest pursuit of knowledge?

Yes. Which is not to say that scientists don't make mistakes, but that's the beauty of science; it's not a fixed body of learning. It's a process that leads to revised conclusions as better data become available.

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Suppose one is talking to someone and one becomes angry but there is no apparent reason for the anger.

I'd suggest mood stabilizers.
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Re: What is the Reality of Science?
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Is that your mutant power then?

*sigh* I wish I could have extra hormones or sumpin.....

 
I know some very reputable doctors I could recommend.
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I know some very reputable doctors I could recommend.

 
Not sure if Canadian Medical would cover that though....
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« Reply #29 on: March 03, 2013, 04:33:28 pm »
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Not sure if Canadian Medical would cover that though....

 
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