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I LOVE IT (long rant)From: PietroS
Subject: General
Date/Time 2007-09-09 18:15:03
Remote IP: 81.84.8.143
Messagea black hole will be opening here, but the unenlightened ones will see it as a comet.
How confortable. You keep the cover of scientific explenation (after all you are using the scientific terms), while gently pushing all the scientists, and the people who actually would know what a black hole is out of the picture: they will just see it as a comet.
A scientific claim, to be so, needs to be falsifiable. But here we have reached a new level of unfalsifiability. If you measure it, you'll get the wrong measures. Because the truth is only available for the enlightened eyes.
I just can't stop admiring this incredible level of bullshit. I mean, it is a work of art. It goes beyond of anything I have seen so far, and opens up new territories. What is that you (reader) can see that the unenlightened cannot see? Can only you (my reader) see that this person (who is walking on the street in front of you) is actually a demon incarnated? Can't you see that he has a big bang in his belly ready to explode.
It feels the old quote is again to be repeated:
What we have here, in essence, is the enormously popular and deeply influential New Age notion of anything goes: anything achieves philsophical or, better, epistemological status if I "experience it for myself"; and if I "experience it for myself" in an "altered state of consciousness," why, then, so much the better. It would be difficult, of course, to over-stress the vapidity, the vacuity of such a notion, yet it is a notion that resides at the theoretical centre of New Age thiking. Imagine the poor wretch at the inquisitorial stake, on the verge of incineration, crying out his innocence to the hooded executioner and receiving in return the reply, "Silence, sinner, I know you're the Devil; I've experienced you personally as the Devil on several occasions, and once when I was in an altered state of consciousness." Not only is such thinking philosophically bankrupt and undeserving of professional respect, it is dangerous. It closes debate before debate can get started: "I experience this for myself, baby, so shut up!" Only the converted can participate -- one at a time. Each "theoretician" inahbits a self-contained, monadic capsule from which he determines the authenticity of his own experience, and by extrapolation the truth of the world or the nature of reality, without logical or epistemological or informational criteria beyond his own subjectivity, without intermeshing social, communicational, observational materials, without rigorous discussion and dialogue -- in short, without any standards for judgement. The result: epistemological kick-the-can, a philosophical world in which every position is of equal value and therefore no position is of any particular value -- no matter how diligently, how skillfully it is presented. "Well, man, I think I see what you mean about the many ways an experience can be interpreted, but this was still real for me, OK?" This is among the very worst aspects of New Age thinking -- I mean from an ideational angle, and it attests psychoanalytically to the New Ager's absolute unwillingness to probe the meaning of his wish-fulfilling thoughts and sensations, the ones that restore him to the before-separation-world of symbiotic fusion and omnipotence. Any fool is free to jump in with his "story," and no one dare chllange its "personal" veracity. This is the tyranny of "doctrine" in reverse, the tyranny of "doctrine" from the other side: "I experienced this, so f____ off!" Every person, every egomaniacal guru, every mystic, every doper, every "beginning shaman," every borderline schizophrenic in every borderline cult becomes a shaper of reality, a pronouncer of the truth.
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Michael, how can your claims be externally falsified? And if they cannot, what does this say of them?
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