Yes, another exciting journal entry from the grand Vomica. Aren't you glad to be reading this?
I saw "day of the dead" last night. I always wondered if anybody would ever be so kind as to let one of the zombies use a gun...
I love it when people think that science is somehow different from religion. I like that for the same reason I like bible thumpers: I like things which are blatantly ridiculous but none the less strongly believed. The problem with science is that only a small percentage of scientific ideas can actually be proven, and nearly all of those ideas are technological. The actuall activity of science involves, for the most part, investigating something until the investigator is able to put together an explenation which seems to make sense. After that, all the scientist has to do is get other people to accept the idea. My point here is that there seem to be a lot of people who feel just fine questioning religious ideas, but very few people ever seem to question scientific notions and instead accept them simply on the basis of their being 'scientific.' This is a manifestation of ignorance, and ignorance is bad. I want to puke on your head and then stuff it into my toilet and then shit on it. More importantly, it doesn't take a scientist to evaluate scientific theories and find the flaws in them or at least to see the equally plausible alternatives. So why is it so important for people in general to engage in the critique of scientific theory? I'll tell you: because scientists are the priests of a religion and the majority of them are more interested in protecting their dogma than in accepting that their worldview might contain flaws and might be too limited. My point is that the universe, as we know it, contains many more possibilities than we are normaly led to expect, and even certain aspects of scientific dogma suggests that the universe is vastly different from what we percieve with our physical senses. The greater our understanding of the universe becomes, the more free we will become even as individuals, simply by virtue of enhancing our ability to interact with the universe in accordance with the 'truest' knowledge available. If freedom and truth are things you see as being valuable, it would be well for you to seek your own answers in all subjects and to view all answers from variouse angles. The priesthoods of science and religion are worth listening to as advice, but no answer to any question should ever be considered final.
Anyway, I think I might be preaching so I'll stop here.
Thanks and apologies to anybody who reads this.
ps
Anybody who has bright green eyes and would be willing to sell one or both of them to me for $10 or less, please contact me.
I saw "day of the dead" last night. I always wondered if anybody would ever be so kind as to let one of the zombies use a gun...
I love it when people think that science is somehow different from religion. I like that for the same reason I like bible thumpers: I like things which are blatantly ridiculous but none the less strongly believed. The problem with science is that only a small percentage of scientific ideas can actually be proven, and nearly all of those ideas are technological. The actuall activity of science involves, for the most part, investigating something until the investigator is able to put together an explenation which seems to make sense. After that, all the scientist has to do is get other people to accept the idea. My point here is that there seem to be a lot of people who feel just fine questioning religious ideas, but very few people ever seem to question scientific notions and instead accept them simply on the basis of their being 'scientific.' This is a manifestation of ignorance, and ignorance is bad. I want to puke on your head and then stuff it into my toilet and then shit on it. More importantly, it doesn't take a scientist to evaluate scientific theories and find the flaws in them or at least to see the equally plausible alternatives. So why is it so important for people in general to engage in the critique of scientific theory? I'll tell you: because scientists are the priests of a religion and the majority of them are more interested in protecting their dogma than in accepting that their worldview might contain flaws and might be too limited. My point is that the universe, as we know it, contains many more possibilities than we are normaly led to expect, and even certain aspects of scientific dogma suggests that the universe is vastly different from what we percieve with our physical senses. The greater our understanding of the universe becomes, the more free we will become even as individuals, simply by virtue of enhancing our ability to interact with the universe in accordance with the 'truest' knowledge available. If freedom and truth are things you see as being valuable, it would be well for you to seek your own answers in all subjects and to view all answers from variouse angles. The priesthoods of science and religion are worth listening to as advice, but no answer to any question should ever be considered final.
Anyway, I think I might be preaching so I'll stop here.
Thanks and apologies to anybody who reads this.
ps
Anybody who has bright green eyes and would be willing to sell one or both of them to me for $10 or less, please contact me.
sammaelhain23:
Amen. The most ridiculous thing about 90% of current scientific *theory* is that it is based on a linear mode which by its own logic is impossible. Rare to find someone who realizes this or even thinks about it. All ideas should be challenged no matter how plausible they seem. Euclidean geometry makes sense (as an example) but it doesn't apply to much that is concrete in nature. Whereas non euclidean geometry applies to fractals which make up our own physiology and indeed all of nature. Yet almost no mention is made of the implications fractal geometry and chaos theory. Reason being it threatens the fundamentalist old guard of science. This sort of closed circuit approach to science is as asinine.
sammaelhain23:
favorite book: ...Principia Discordia...I should have known! hehe 