Re: Modern physics and refutation of nihilism
From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 02/19/05
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:57:40 +0000 (UTC)
In article <1108752516.644710.16490@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The idea of reality as illusion started in Eastern religions and
The ancient Greeks liked it, too.
>became popularized in the West with Einstein. When Einstein showed that
>time is exprienced differently in systems running at different speeds,
>he brought to bear the idea that time and space are not absolute, but
>relative to the speed at which an object travels. All kinds of
>philosophers - and ultimately hucksters - picked up on this notion to
>claim that life is an illusion; that all things, from experience to
>morals, are relative; and that, based on these conclusions, any lie and
>any sin and any depredation is to be excused as part of the way of
>life.
>
>This idea was combined with quantum mechanics - the fact that the very
>act of measuring an electron's motion involved sending a photon, which
>bumped the electron and changed its position and momentum - to claim
>something still more atrocious: That it is our act of observing the
>world that creates our reality, and that anything in our lives - the
>reality that supposedly we create - is something we bring about with
>our conscious and unconscious minds.
>
>It needs little clarification to recognize what a monstrosity is this
>notion. What it means - and what many in the New Age claimed
>explicitly - is that anything that happens to a person, is something
>they have thought up. Which means that any crime against another person
>is something the other person has manifested. Which of course could be
>used to excuse every genocide, barbarism and deception in the history
>of the world, and gives the person who believes such a thing a green
>light to do horrible things to others.
New Agers?
"Pyramids work by focusing the cosmic wind in phase with your spirit."
The chanting excites vibrations in the altar which creates piezoelectric
fields that direct ions from the candles...
New Agers abuse quantum mechanics and relativity, extending
half-understood science lessons far beyond valid application. But they
like the basics, too-- energy, fields, vibrations, especially resonances.
Magic is poetic, and so it doesn't matter to them whether two people
moving around normally can remain quantum entangled. They'll invoke
quantum concepts anyway.
But it hasn't been my observation that the New Agers believe everything is
imaginary, or that they have any tolerance for genocide, etc. As a matter
of the New Ager's personal interest, that would fly in the face of Karma,
which returns your evils seven-fold (or whatever gain they use).
-- "Outside the camp you shall have a place set aside to be used as a latrine. You shall keep a trowel in your equipment and with it, when you go outside to ease nature, you shall first dig a hole and afterward cover up your excrement." -- Deuteronomy 23:13-14
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