Session 3 - as above, so below
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TL;DR (Summary)
He was joking (just kidding)
Excerpt, "Awkward Truths: Beyond the dogmas of Science, Religion and New-Age Philosophies"
© Stephen Pirie, 2004
For the last couple of years, thousand, it’s been customary to believe that if we are perfectly nice to each other, we’ll end up in Heaven when we die.
The modern superstitions of science and religion
Background
Modern science is still almost entirely based on 17th century concepts that physical movement is perfectly smooth and continuous.
This continuity of movement implies continuity of operation (of the world we experience) which naturally induced the perception that our universe (and our bodies) operated like a clockwork machine. This machine-world view was the impetus for the Industrial Revolution which resulted in many beneficial technologies (aircraft, automobiles, etc).
"Transcending" what exactly?
I've just listened to an audio (podcast) of some spiritual, self-development school, who talk about all the wonderful things and experiences to be had when we get to 'transcend'.
Transcending is the way forward, it seems.
Uhm, what exactly is it that we are supposed to transcend?
Presumably it is our wrong-headed egos or some such.
Only question is, does it make sense to 'transcend' anything?
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The urge to categorise
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Tribalism, as old as the stars
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All God, all good
Yesterday had an interesting, somewhat intense discussion with someone who confessed to being a Christian.
It seems to me there are some very simple, fundamental errors in thinking by Christians (as a general rule — and don't get me started on rules, systems, probabilities, and individuality. "We're all individuals" yeah, yeah, I'm not. Kudos to Monty Python. But i digress).
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