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"Your insults and your curses make me feel like I'm not a person"
This following paragraph is from the introduction of The Encyclopedia Of The Unsolved; Past and Present (which I just found while moving out of my dorm a few weeks ago and began reading it, 600 pages long)
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It is not simply a question of whether ESP or telepathy deserve to be taken seriously, but wether - as Martin Gardner would like to believe - the universe is ultimately as rational and "normal" as a novel by Jane Austin or Anthony Trollope. This is an easy belief to maintain because the universe that confronts us when we open our eyes in the morning looks perfectly "normal" and it is unlikely that we shall encounter any event during the day that contradicts this assumption. But then the universe looks unquestionable to a cow for the same kind of reason.We know that the minuet we begin to use our intelligence to ask questions the universe becomes a far more strange and mysterious place.
Most scientists would agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment for science begins with a sense of mystery. But a certain type of scientist - and they are, unfortunately, in the majority - would also like to believe that the mysteries could be solved by the simple kind of deductive logic employed by Sherlock Holmes. And the problem presented by these time slips or precognitions or synchronicities or by poltergeists and out-of-body-experiances make it clear that this is wishful thinking. We can only keep science within comfortable logical bounderies by refusing to acknowledge the existance of anything outside those bounderies.
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Interesting thought.
In laymans terms it basically says that we generally see the world one way because we've never HAD to see it any other way in our day to day lives. We wake up to the same world we've always known. It starts to become questionable and alien when we begin inquiring in to what is unseen and abnormal (esp, ghosts, aliens, etc) things outside of our day to day lives make us begin to question our lives as they are.
The problem with science and the "paranormal" comes in because science has always had a way of rationalizing things and putting them in certain categories and anything outside of the preset bounderies is not worth a second thought.
I judge my beliefs on intuition and experiance. Not science, not religion, not one book or many books. I'm old fashioned that way. My beliefs and spirituality comes from waking up every day, seeing the world as I see it and interpreting that in my own way without outside aid from religious dogma or scientific dogma.
Maybe that's a "less educated" path but it's definately more enlightened in my opinion.
It's not like I put no emphasis on science or philisophy etc because obviously science DOES hold many answers but somehow I don't think the meaning of life is in a lab or a science book.
*nod*
/fin
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