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David Wilcock's bulshitFrom: Steven
Subject: General
Date/Time 2008-03-24 16:55:51
Remote IP: 76.247.140.5
MessageI can see both sides to your arguments.
I agree with you Dog about not throwing the baby out with the bath water;
at the same time, you'll have to forgive SD--we scientific types tend
to get really riled up and defensible when we smell scientific inaccuracies,
since it acts as a source of misinformation about the field we
spend our lives in.
Unfortunately the New Age community is particularly bad at this.
They have some relatively important things to say, and because they
fear that they won't be taken seriously they add "scientific hearsay"
into a lot of their canon to try to add some credibility. The problem
is, they never check their sources to find out how accurate it is--and
more often than not, it is completely wrong. Of course all this
inaccurate information just then makes the rest of their stuff look less
credible, because if certain things are clearly false, then it casts
the other stuff into immediate doubt.
Of course, this can sometimes create a vicious circle where they add
even more scientific hearsay to try to add more credibility, and so on.
The unfortunate result is that if there was any good legitimate information,
it has become buried and/or discounted by the fact that they poisoned their
material with wrong stuff.
It would, of course, be better if the enlightened truths they obtained, they
just stated as is--without trying to add something external. Oh well.
In the case of viewing or reading any of this New Age stuff, I think the
best approach is just to consider it "fiction" to begin with . . . just a
source of entertainment. Then, if in some small part, something seems
to resonate within, then use it as a tool to open additional awareness.
In this way, of neither complete acceptance or complete rejection, the
complete truth may be found.
Peace,
Steven
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