Funny Article...
"Scientists are mistrusted by huge swathes of the general public, who see them as emotionless lab-coated meddlers-with-nature rather than, say, fellow human beings who've actually bothered getting off their arses to work this shit out."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/02/television.television
Yup. I agree. The rest of the article is really treating "the idiots" rather simply, but i agree with the basic point....even if "the idiots" are very complicated.
I'm not an atheist. I might as well be one, though, because "functionally" i don't see a diference. My "god" is built upon my personal experinces. he's literally "mine". and she hides in fundemental energy of existance. The physical universe IS my god. always there...watching and smiling. watching it's children evolve. from raw energy...to atoms...to starts, systems, and galaxy's....to complex compounds...and then into something amazing..."life"....and watching life evolve....and then the brain....and cognition....self-realized matter. and from then into creating profoundly amazing. These complex brain endowed animals have managed to immagine. Create entire worlds in their own heads. ideas. love. These invisible things that have just as much impact as a physical object...if not more. And THIS is my essence of spirit. We only live in each other's hearts. and maybe...just maybe....the heart has it's own merit with this universe. Maybe. maybe not. I personally don't care. One day I will die. my body will shut down, and my brain will go to sleep and give me one hell of a trippy ass dream/halusination....a dream that will never end for me....because the me will gradually fade away. My return to innocence....as god/the universe rocks me gently back into herself. I will still "be"....but "I" will not. "me" will be gone. I will not exist. My consiousness will not be going wherever whatever remains of myself will have gone. The essence of my life will be filled with the rest of everyone elses.
The native american's had a saying: "Tell me some facts, and i might remember them. Tell me a story, and it will live forever in my heart".
And that's what i'm hoping in. Foolish? Absolutly. No evidence. None. But it keeps me sane and happy...and wanting to give this world one hell of a story to live in the heart of this universe.
And my big beef with most evolution bashers isn't that they believe in something without any evidence....it's their inability to step outside their own perspective and question the basic philosophy of what is right and wrong....and WHY. That they start forming their OWN opinions instead of a books. Or placing value in something that is alive TODAY instead of an putting value in something because it's "really old".
It's really complicated. But so is everything. My biggest beef, i should say, is how the evolution bashes affect POLICY. I want to beat my head against a wall for hours.
But anyway, i've got to run to work.
but in closing. I keep my rational an irrational sides fairly balanced. but you need both of them. and i'm going to quote a south park episode:
"Well perhaps the great Dawkins wasn't so wise. Oh, he was intelligent, but, some of the most intelligent otters I've ever known were completely lacking in common sense. Maybe, some otters do need to believe in something. Who knows? Maybe, just believing in God makes God exist."
(although i DO totally respect Dawkins. It's just we differ on philosophy. not science)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/02/television.television
Yup. I agree. The rest of the article is really treating "the idiots" rather simply, but i agree with the basic point....even if "the idiots" are very complicated.
I'm not an atheist. I might as well be one, though, because "functionally" i don't see a diference. My "god" is built upon my personal experinces. he's literally "mine". and she hides in fundemental energy of existance. The physical universe IS my god. always there...watching and smiling. watching it's children evolve. from raw energy...to atoms...to starts, systems, and galaxy's....to complex compounds...and then into something amazing..."life"....and watching life evolve....and then the brain....and cognition....self-realized matter. and from then into creating profoundly amazing. These complex brain endowed animals have managed to immagine. Create entire worlds in their own heads. ideas. love. These invisible things that have just as much impact as a physical object...if not more. And THIS is my essence of spirit. We only live in each other's hearts. and maybe...just maybe....the heart has it's own merit with this universe. Maybe. maybe not. I personally don't care. One day I will die. my body will shut down, and my brain will go to sleep and give me one hell of a trippy ass dream/halusination....a dream that will never end for me....because the me will gradually fade away. My return to innocence....as god/the universe rocks me gently back into herself. I will still "be"....but "I" will not. "me" will be gone. I will not exist. My consiousness will not be going wherever whatever remains of myself will have gone. The essence of my life will be filled with the rest of everyone elses.
The native american's had a saying: "Tell me some facts, and i might remember them. Tell me a story, and it will live forever in my heart".
And that's what i'm hoping in. Foolish? Absolutly. No evidence. None. But it keeps me sane and happy...and wanting to give this world one hell of a story to live in the heart of this universe.
And my big beef with most evolution bashers isn't that they believe in something without any evidence....it's their inability to step outside their own perspective and question the basic philosophy of what is right and wrong....and WHY. That they start forming their OWN opinions instead of a books. Or placing value in something that is alive TODAY instead of an putting value in something because it's "really old".
It's really complicated. But so is everything. My biggest beef, i should say, is how the evolution bashes affect POLICY. I want to beat my head against a wall for hours.
But anyway, i've got to run to work.
but in closing. I keep my rational an irrational sides fairly balanced. but you need both of them. and i'm going to quote a south park episode:
"Well perhaps the great Dawkins wasn't so wise. Oh, he was intelligent, but, some of the most intelligent otters I've ever known were completely lacking in common sense. Maybe, some otters do need to believe in something. Who knows? Maybe, just believing in God makes God exist."
(although i DO totally respect Dawkins. It's just we differ on philosophy. not science)