Originally posted by robbie carrobie
1.obeisance to science
2.materialism
3.meism
4.anything that comes between us and our relationship with God
Just some asides on this wonderful list:
1. Yes! The scientific method requires brutal honesty and a continual reappraisal of knowledge. Any reverence for principles that violate observable facts is by definition witchcraft and has no place in science. (As an experiment, try actually talking to a real scientist for once in your life and you'll find that they are not quick to offer opinions. They are trying to understand not explain.)
2. Amen! (Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction rulez!) (Please, will someone explain this to the block-headed mormons?) (And if you don't know what I'm talking about - why don't you?)
3. Outstanding! Fight the childish urge to carry around the idea that you and you alone understand the universe! Realize what an idiot that makes you look like to other intelligent people. Have some humility! (Walt Whitman said, "Priests! Until you can explain a paving stone do not attempt to explain God!" )
4. R-E-S-P-E-C-T! (For all of our honest feelings - however they may run.) With this proviso (honesty.) Canto XIII - Ezra Pound:
And Kung raised his cane against Yuan Jang,
Yuan Jang being his elder,
for Yuan Jang sat by the roadside pretending to
be receiving wisdom.
And Kung said
"You old fool, come out of it,
"Get up and do something useful."
And Kung said
"Respect a child's faculties
"From the moment it inhales the clear air,
"But a man of fifty who knows nothing
Is worthy of no respect."