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Flannel writes:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:13:42 -0700, Steve <rstevew at armory.com> wrote:
>
> >Anyone who thinks they know is not humble. Believers and disbeievers
> >think they know and say they know. They don't, and they can't, they are
> >lying.
>
>
> In such a general statement, I think "lying" is perhaps too strong of
> a word. Basically, because I don't know, I assume others don't
> either. I think its called projecting and doesn't make for good
> logic, nevertheless, I find myself making the assumption anyway.
>
> <snip>
>
> >Humility is truth. It is the core of the scientific method. Be humble.
> >Anyone who says that they know, this side of death and for all I know
> >the other side, is surely foolish. Do what makes sense and feels right
> >and good, but don't try to justify your life with invented human
> >malarkey, and that's all there is available besides love and warmth.
>
> I don't know about humility being truth, but I agree that it makes for
> a good scientific approach.
>
> As for the rest, well...here's my problem. I get tempted to say in a
> post like this that I know what's right for me, but I don't know
> what's neccessarily right for someone else. But that isn't really
> accurate. I don't know what is right for me. I make the best guess I
> can but it is just a guess. My life has been mostly trial and error,
> and a heck of a whole lot of errors. It doesn't look like this is
> going to change anytime soon. Some of the errors that I have made
> have been done boldly and rashly. But I don't neccessarily regret
> them. Not that I learned a whole lot from them, but I have found
> these experiences to be just as relevant as any other action of mine.
> That is, I find them just as neccessary for my happiness and
> contentment as well-planned and executed successes.
>
>
> >
> >The only justification for your life that makes sense is what is written
> >upon your heart before the foundation of the world. You can't count on
> >it being in books intact, and you will find it in many more and
> >different books than supposed 'holy" books. The important thing is this,
> >that it is inside you, and that YOU are what validates it when you see
> >it and it makes sense. The book is just dead plants and is as often
> >wrong. Your "heart" is the ultimate authority because you have to live
> >there.
>
> In the past, I have written stuff like you have above, and I will
> probably do so again in the future. But sometimes, and this is one of
> them, I think it is just a bunch of meaningless dribble. Consistancy
> is importatant in many areas, but I don't know and don't think its
> possible in many other areas. Now there is a good chance that I am
> wrong on this, but I think it is improbable and even undesireable that
> a person could go through life considering the same things important
> all through it or though the bulk of it.
> >
> >Atheism that rejects the feudal monarch model of "God" is fine, as that
> >was clearly only an economic despotism.
>
> I don't agree that it was "only" economic despostism.
>
> >But if that's all it is it
> >remains in the dark ages. Profound atheist materialism looks like
> >somebody wasn't paying attention very well to how very strange it is to
> >exist at all and to feel you are you. Why is that required at all?
> >And what in the world does it imply?
>
> I'm not exactly sure of what you mean by "profound atheist
> materialism." But to question why we or anything exists at all or
> to feel you are you is quite an activity. It sometimes feels like I
> am the only person who finds existance to be strange but I think that
> it only feels that way because such thoughts are so hard to
> articulate. Individual human isolation makes it hard to articulate
> what individual human isolation is. Accurate scientific description
> of it makes life appear ....well....dull and lifeless.
>
> Which brings me back to my post to Okamura:
>
> "The tao that is spoken is not the actual tao."
>
> (I'm going to have to go and find the actual quote one of these days.)
>
>
> >Be gentle with each other.
> >-Steve
>
>
>
> Flannel
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> I have a deep distrust of anyone who is not insecure.
> Roger A. Bird
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