The folly of religion and the arrogance of science
Since we cannot understand the world as it is (our sensory apparatus and the nature of reality are just too much at odds), we need to couch it in structures and words that relate to our everyday existence. Religion is the earliest and most obvious example. Science is another one, although it doesn't like to think of itself that way. We are all story tellers, interpreting our experiences, placing them inside a world view that makes sense to us. The same is happening with dreams: it is a byproduct - a serendipitous epiphenomenon if you like - of the way our minds collate and restructure memories collected during our waking life.
That is one of the reasons for starting my lucid dreaming experiments again. Not only does it give you insight into how your mind works when it is dissociated from the world (other than once removed through memories), it also has the effect of making you stand back from reality in your waking life. Today I had what could almost be described as an out-of-body experience, as I observed people in a meeting. I felt like a true observer, unencumbered by the weight that a physical self attaches to a point of view. Since a point has no mass, you could say that I was truly approaching a point of view.
posted by Platypus Bill @ 9:32 pm
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I feel like that at most meetings. I have to make a conscious effort to 'actually' be at the meeting, rather than be wholly or partly absent, that is present in body but somewhere else altogether in mind. Hold on is this out of body experience (whilst awake) or lucid dreaming (whilst awake). You can remember the dream, but you have no idea what the meeting was about.
I like that "since a point has no mass, I was really approaching a point of view" How about Karl Marx & Materialism - where did his thoughts on Materialism and Matter come from - no, don't tell me
from thin air?
The power of suggestion - Have you ever bought ground rhino horn, how about just hatched (aborted) chics One apparently a form of Viagra, the other alegedly a cure for Alzheimer's or dementia. A guy was telling me he is on EMU Oil, not Cod Liver Oil, but EMU Oil as a remedy? - for his already beyond repair shattered knee. Maybe he should have started on EMU Oil before he inflicted the damage from years of wear & tear on knee.
None of these are suitable for vegans. As for arthritis, that is one of the typical western diet lifestyle diseases. But of course it's also big business for the pharmacological companies. After all, why try to cure or god forbid prevent something when you can make trillions selling palliative pills.
Ying & Yang. Harmony. Religion is different things to different people. To some getting laid every night is a religion, to others getting drunk every night is a religion, and to others having three square meals is a religion. I knew a man who would religiously have 2 eggs for breakfast, whether boil, poached, fried or scrambled, until after his first heart murmurs his doctor told him to change his religion and give up eggs or die. Not sure why that proves that his religion was wrong or that the doctor (mumbo jumbo or science) was right. Sufficient to say there was something that was in disharmony and the doctor (whether of science or religion) was trying to make it right.
ie - think no evil and no evil will not think of you, see no evil and no evil will see you, hear no evil and no evil will hear you, speak no evil and no evil will speak evil of you.
I used to do Philosophy of Religion, or was it Religion of Philosophy. I think it depended entirely on whether I was dreaming lucid awake, or lucid dreaming asleep. I could never be sure if my philosophy was my religion or my religion was my philosophy. You know - the you cannot have coffee at Starbucks if you are Green or you cannot be Green if you have coffe at Starbucks, syndrome.
Is it true that if you tell some one something cannot be done, they'll try to do it if only to prove you wrong. Just like if you say to someone something can be done, they'll still try prove you wrong.
If you tell people that the £one billion they hope to get from students in top up fees is not for education, but to pay £1 billion to arms & weapons research. And as if that were not enough, takin the piss and rubbin your face in it, then they'll try to make another £1billion or two out og Gul War Three (nuke Iran) the video game.
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