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SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That’s what I like about science. You’re never too sure you know what’s happening. It just keeps being exciting. Imagine being religious and being told “we figured all out 2,000 years ago, there’s no need to keep looking”. Boring!
Paragone@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Each religion, including fundamentalist-atheism, tells its people something that at some level they want to hear.
The Abrahamic religions were suited to the people that those religions took-root in.
The savagely-scientific AwakeSoulism/Buddhism couldn’t possibly have taken-root among those people.
Fundamentalist-atheism takes-root in people who want that, & then they won’t even contemplate the question of why the electromagnetic-force ( mediator of all normal/terrestrial chemistry ) behaves differently in disintegrating-corpses, vs growing-organisms… producing different results?
It’s the SAME force!
WHY is it disintegrating 1 body, but growing the other?
Physicalism has proclaimed ( see “God: The Failed Hypothesis” by Victor Stenger, for 1 example of this ) that “anybody who invokes the immaterial…” ( notice that awareness isn’t protons, neutrons, or electrons: it isn’t matter, therefore awareness is categorically included in this declaration ) "…is invoking the supernatural!"
But flip that on its head:
Any “physics” which doesn’t accurately describe how mind ALTERS the behavior of matter, including explaining how the intersection of knowing & will can somehow create airliners, culture, science, etc…, ( obviously NOT "random interactions of particles ) ISN’T complete!
( see Hofstadter’s book “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, for how you have to choose EITHER self-consistent-knowing XOR complete-matching-Universe, & that is mathematically proven )
Here’s part of why I value AwakeSoulism… it ORDERED Empiricism, the ONLY true Science.
Why do I call it the ONLY true Science?
There is a concept outside-centrism that is captured by a biblical-Greek term, eklegos.
The Christian who was explaining this concept ( Dr. Gene Scott ) was explaining that relying-on-other/higher-power was inherent in their religion, but has been lost in ours.
Interestingly, outside-centrism is what differentiates Empiricism from all formal-systems/ideologies/prejudices/“religions” nowadays:
All the self-sufficient ones, even if they identify as being based-on-universe, or being based-on-evidence, or being based-on-G-D, if they reject worldview-altering falsification, then they hold that their axioms outrank evidence/universe’s-speech!
& THAT falsifies the whole category of them all, in my eyes.
IF you hold that your system-of-knowing CANNOT be falsified by contradictory-evidence, THEN you hold that your-belief is The Ultimate Answer™.
However, IF you hold that evidence contradicting your belief that holds up to testing actually obliges one to change-one’s-worldview ( as Empiricism does ), THEN … now one is doing exactly what Buddha Gautama instructed.
Eklegos.
Outside-centrism.
What really makes the difference funny, is that in Beaumeister’s book “Willpower”, he identified that the evidence clearly showed that relying-on-a-higher-power was required for a profound-addict to win against addiction, but … he rejected that that was valid/true-requirement.
IOW, he demonstrated axiom-based “science”, right there, rejecting Empricism.
Evidence forced me into the Dharmic-religions’ cosmology ( I discovered that I’d remembered some of my continuum’s/soul’s memories from other-kinds-of-lives, which was incompatible with ALL Western frames-of-reference ), & it took YEARS to adjust my worldview to that evidence.
Universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energies!
Physicalism/materialism/scientism prohibits that.
So, pick which scheme-of-knowing one prefers!
Axiom-based knowing, in which case contradictory-evidence doesn’t threaten one’s established-assumptions, or ego/identity,
XOR evidence-based knowing, in which case one can be forced that far, … in my case from medical-research ( father ) & Christianity ( mother ) all the way over to AwakeSoulist Empiricism, … by evidence itself…
No, I’m not pretending that you, or anybody, has any reason to accept what I, or others, have found TESTS to be true: our experiment-results are vetoed by all Western-culture axioms/assumptions, right?
I AM saying that anyone who has the neurological-means/basis to do the profound experiments, and who does them properly, may earn the same category-of-results that others have already done.
( the book “Maharshi’s Gospel” is the instructions, given in oral exchanges, between Ramana Maharshi, a Hindu, who’d broken-right-through to the AWARENESS-but-no-“self” profound-level of meditation, & eventually he simply … didn’t come back from it.
I’m recommending it because it isn’t Buddhist: Truth can stand on its own!
You want another book that cuts right through oceans of ignorance, perhaps more-pertinent?
Huston Smith’s “World Religions”.
Brilliant, incisive, & mind-opening.
I only read the Hindu, Buddhist, & Primal religions, because the Abrahamic religions have sooo offended my Empiricism-religion that I … kinda want nothing to do with engaging-them, anymore.
Objectively, I ought correct that, for scientific-integrity’s sake.
Here’s a link to the assumption-shattering profound work by him:
kobo.com/…/the-world-s-religions-revised-and-upda…
Relentlessly keep exploring!
Awareness is the most magical substance!
What else is living for, other-than learning/exploring-meanings/exploring-understanding?
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