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> "brian fletcher"
gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:481dd925$0$30462$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...>> On Aus ABC we had Richard Dawkins wondering, in the light of his exposing
>> 'psychic nonsense', why the young intellectuals are losing interest in
>> the sciences.
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>> On SBS we had a documentary into the US particle accelerator, and the
>> speculation on the Higgs theory. The belief is that the 6 billion dollar
>> accelorater (to quote the designer), could take us closer to the horizon
>> than we have ever been on the structure of matter. One scientists said
>> "science is what you do when you dont know what you are doing". It was
>> wonderful to see such diverse pov's in succession.
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>> One thing Dawkins dwelled on, was the danger of 'going back to the dark
>> ages' where superstition reigned inspite of scientific breakthrough.
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>> Of course what he failed to mention, it is science that could take us to
>> the dark ages...literally. Of course, that would also answer his dillema
>> re the new generation. I dont think anyone has ever blamed 'hocus pocus'
>> for climate change, and the possible destruction of life as we know it.
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>> Great to be able to observe such remarkable men in action.
>>
>> BOfL
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> I'm on record in these parts trying to speak for the masses who made
> Hyapatia of Alexandria toast.
Sounds like a good recipe. Would sell well at wholefood stores :-)
> Prevailing thought is that the masses are ignoramouses who burn down
> storehouses of human knowledge so they can pander to their own belief
> systems. But I see it different. Whomsoever spits into a line of ants
> already ordered and somewhat content, whatever the mindless procession may
> seem like to urbane sophisticates, creates a bevy of chaos...and no
> creature likes chaos.
No person likes disruption, but a bird 'dropping' on a line of ants
provides, just like the intentional spitting, need to reform.
The individual has a similar appointment with disruption, where reformation
of ones awareness is the result.
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> What is the goal though? I mean, when do we 'arrive'?
Two seperate journeys. One, the individual consciousness arrives. Two, the
group is always searching. Of course, once one becomes self realized, the
two journeys can be enjoyed in parallel. Self creates and lives in the
moment. The mind is always looking to the future. It needs the stimulation
of the search, just as the body needs "taking for walkies" ;-)
> When will we KNOW that we are at the summit of whatever ecological
> mountain we are supposed to climb? In a thousand years, will we still be
> rationalizing devotion to the 'future'..to knowledge that we, even then,
> do not have?
The answer is not 'above' ((except in this case hehehehehe)..
BOfL
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> I argue that all we really have are MOMENTS and not extended time. And
> that changes everything. CURIOSITY is ok as a value. But there are far
> more worthy things about our character as a creature. IMHO.
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