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We all sense something deeply deficient in our modern civilisation. Is it an absence of spirituality? Partly. A greedy materialism beyond what we really need? Yes, we are riding the tiger of late capitalism, where we make our living producing, selling and buying goods and services we often do not need on this finite planet. We cannot see ourselves, in part blinkered by unneeded scientism.
The central framework of current physics is that of entailing laws. The central image is the billiard table as boundary conditions and the set of all possible initial conditions of position and momenta of the balls on the table. Then, given Isaac Newton’s laws in differential form, we deduce the deterministic trajectories of the balls. Our model of how to do science is to deduce new consequences, test them, accept or reject the results by diverse criteria, then retain or modify our theories. Science proceeds as Aristotle might have wished, in part as deduction.
My aim is to begin to demolish this […]
I wish you would stop writing negative comments about Hillary. I fervently hope she will be our next president. I am convinced that she has our best interest at heart, and that she will make things better for women and children.
On the other hand, some of us fear that possibility equally fervently. If you want to experience the real Hillary just google up, under her name, “we came, we saw,… he died, tee-hee” It’s that twisted titter at the end that is the key to this terrifying woman. Opposing her, of course, there is a certified (and certifiable) monster. Frankentrump vs Draculette. Imagine a Walt Disney musical of Dante’s Inferno! Either way Dumfukistan will get a leader it truly deserves.
In his wonderful book “The End Of Materialism”, Charles T. Tart says: ” If materialism is seen for what it actually is, a philosophy or theory of reality that’s very useful in many areas but quite inadequate in others, it need not be at all psychologically damaging or invalidating. It’s when it all-too-commonly hardens into dogma, into scientism, claiming to be the ultimate and final truth about everything, that the invalidation of our spiritual nature occurs and hurts us.