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Re: A new calling.

Etceterist said Jul 27, 2006, 8:07 PM:

I saw physicist Lee Smolin give a talk and he made the suggestion that at any point in history, whatever percentage of the population finds art inaccessible, that same percentage of the population finds science inaccessible.

Why is science so lonely? High school science is full of partial, confusing misconceptions inflicted upon id-driven hormone factories. University science is filled with “Spatiotemporal dynamics of RhoA activity in migrating cells” (to pick a letter to Nature magazine at random).

It's hard to have warm fuzzies in a clinical environment.

Lonely band of crusaders. I like that.

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Re: A new calling.

Etceterist said Jul 28, 2006, 8:26 AM:

While this is in my clipboard:

“The laws of Nature are impersonal”. It's like Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Church of the Apathetic Messiah in Sirens of Titan. Cosmically, nothing cares about me.

And I may be shaking my thunder stick at the sky here, but I'm gonna keep thinking too much about it. Devising my own interpretation of the data. It may be arrogance and it may be folly and the cognitive phenomenon I call me may have to do all this suffering over again because of it. I accept that.

The problem with ancient wisdom is that it's old. That doesn't negate its wisdom, though. It is inspired by Reality and thus has Truth. The aspects of maya that brought it forth are too different from me for the lies to translate well.

The probability of lost Truth resurfacing is 1, given time. Lies have a probability of resurfacing inversely proportional to their complexity. Lies are aberations, and lots of time doesn't help so much. This means an ornate lie, once forgotten, will probably never return. This also means that Truth, having a probability of 1, is the least complex thing.

So I ask questions. Statistically, some are beautiful.

What if infinity is the illusion?

Re: A new calling.

None [no longer around] said Aug 11, 2006, 2:06 PM:

Maybe personality is the illusion.

Re: A new calling.

dbroadwell said May 28, 2007, 7:51 PM:

I was never able to prove it, but in calculus, which saves me piles of algebra, i insisted upon there being both + and minus Infinity … such that in a spherical log polar plane one can literally wrap around infinity. I'll make a picture sometime if I can it's tantilizingly pretty.

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Science good, Spritiualism good. Together they do more than apart, as do we all.