Re: If you are ever in Arkansas...


"don findlay" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> jonathan wrote:
>
> > But ya know, the more interesting aspect of all this
> > is why is this movement gaining steam? They are
> > looking for the same things we are, the answers.
> > They're looking for simplicity and certainty, the
> > same thing science wants.
>
> Rubbish. Science is about careers and prestige


No, that's what scientists are about. I wasn't talking
about them.


>nothing to do with
> 'the science' Scientists should be encouraged to publish anonymously,
> if it's about the science.


I was talking about the sciences, not scientists, or science.


>
> > It's instinctive for
> > us to want to know without any doubts.
>
> No. We thrive on uncertainty (read terror and fear..) Bush
> understands that.


Reality and life are all about uncertainty, but science is all about getting
rid
of the uncertainty. Which is why scientists can't see reality. Science
runs away from where the answers lie, farther away
every day. Politicians have a far better grasp on reality than
most scientists. As they intuitively understand the natural power
of uncertainty. As a result politicians have a far better grasp
on us.

Don't you want to level the playing field?


>
> > Objective science and religion, these are the
> > manifestations of our instincts, the animal in us
> > searching madly for these elusive answers to our
> > existence.
>
> "Puffing on Arkansas grass."


I was told it was grown in the lush tropical hydroponic gardens
near Biscayne and 2nd ave, Miami. But I'm right you know.
Both methods try to focus down to the one thing that'll tell
us how it all came to be. Both try to find those opposite
extremes of simplicity, the one Great Idea.

Reality and truth are found in the middle, where neither method
dominates, where certainty is minimized, in complexity

The minute you hear a 'thinker' talk about a grand unified theory
or God, your first reaction should be ....simpletons.



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