RE: A challenge to the thesis of "intellectual laziness" of believers in God
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the odd cosmic "coincidences" of the materialist worldview are what caught my attention. it's too unlikely to be random and at "the tail-end of an explosion".
officially of course there is an explanation for everything. but once i look a bit deeper and ask questions like a curious kid, i can usually no longer find satisfactory 'non-lazy' answers.
i found that most things society deems "self-evident" are provably false. which i never would have believed ever!
but to me nothing is certain anymore. we have to start from scratch as most of the 'truths' we have picked up in life are propaganda, worldview-indoctrination. cult speak. but zen what do i know? ahahahahah
whenever i found the catch in something and pointed it out, noone wanted to hear it. seemed they had all ventured far enough they assured me. "no need to look further, we got it now, it's alright! we know the truth already!"
how lazy ;)
Before I let myself be taken in by all the doomsday talk since 2020, I was also regularly in good spirits that serious scientists say that the deeper they look, the better and more sophisticated their devices are, the more questions they have and the more they assume an intelligence, i.e. God. What works back on them is the fact that maths and the other natural sciences make possible what they call a finely tuned universe.
I haven't lost the desire to listen to these types of researchers who out themselves as theists or believers and it does me good to experience this. I am nowhere near being able to grasp the maths behind it and can therefore only summon up an understanding of it with my limited abilities. However, as communication is usually not by means of formulae but by means of linguistic language and a scientist is able to translate what otherwise only experts understand, I am happy to listen.
So, the message from that scientific side is not that "We know everything and that is that."
I think that the craziness of our time makes us more able to spot a cult, and to see the difference between it and culture, don't you think?
Bye, bye
yes!
are you familiar with rupert sheldrake?
Absolutely. I once emailed with him for a certain project we had in mind. I think, I saw all of his speeches online. And was digging up his website, as well. :)
I am currently leading a group of students, mostly PhD students, in a detailed study of Sheldrake's Science Set Free.
That is great to hear. I am now very curious about the outcome.
When did you start the group?
We started about 5 weeks ago. Next week is our final session.
It’s been good. Most are international students, from a wide variety of disciplines. All have had their thinking challenged. We’ve had some really good discussions.
Glad, tho hear that. Is there any material coming up, which you could make available to the public? Do you plan on giving another course of the same nature?
and some have argued that culture and cult are identical ;)
good old Terence McKenna ... :)
I would not call it "culture", like he does in this clip though, but cult, yes.
aye