Why Do the Religious Reject Science While Embracing the Impossible?

[Belinda]

Alexis will now speak!

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If you, my dear readers, will allow me to make this short, pithy statement I believe it will help us all. Ready?

Please tell me what you seriously think!

You sense that your world is changing. It’s like the ground has jarred violently under your feet but you do not have enough knowledge or understanding to make any sense of it at all. You have little understanding of the causal processes that led to what is happening. And you do not have either the interest nor the will to work to achieve (better) understanding. So the larger part of your reaction is ‘paja’ on one side and simple fearfulness on the other.

Fear has behavioural and evolutionary advantage. What you do with your fear shows the degree to which you are a civilised human being.

[Alexis Jacobi]

Well said, Belindo.

[Dubious]

Alexis will now speak!

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If you, my dear readers, will allow me to make this short, pithy statement I believe it will help us all. Ready?

Please tell me what you seriously think!

You sense that your world is changing. It’s like the ground has jarred violently under your feet but you do not have enough knowledge or understanding to make any sense of it at all. You have little understanding of the causal processes that led to what is happening. And you do not have either the interest nor the will to work to achieve (better) understanding. So the larger part of your reaction is ‘paja’ on one side and simple fearfulness on the other.

That's not our fault! You haven't yet enlightened any of us. As the master guru you surely are, one who knows that he knows, it behooves thee to enlighten the fools who know not that they know not. Show yourself to be a benefactor!

No point wasting time sitting on your butt farting out inferences collected elsewhere. Speak, I command thee, the wisdom that lies latent within you, desperately searching for an exit like a modern Zarathustra weary of his wisdom! Be not discouraged by the buffooned ears of your detractors; with every sentence you speak another layer of their ignorance will be wiped until there's nothing left since all their thoughts were nothing more than the heaped layers of congealed errors. Focus the ineffable light of your metaphysical brilliance to reanimate the dust we are and stand once again upright, hermeneutically inspired by your teachings.

We await to hear the perennial wisdom that will guide our futures into enduring bliss knowing that all wisdom fadeth that could ever supersede yours.

But how much will it cost to extract from your will the guidance which infringes the curse of existence revealing instead the endless perspectives and multiplicities of cosmic wisdom?

Any deals to be made or family plans available?

[Alexis Jacobi]

Be not discouraged by the buffooned ears of your detractors; with every sentence you speak another layer of their ignorance will be wiped until there's nothing left since all their thoughts were nothing more than the heaped layers of congealed errors.

Your faith has come like a golden ray through the murk of a veritable depression! The sense that I have been dealing with brutes. I like how you put it though: accumulations of congealed errors.

Spot on!

Still, and certainly in your case, since you have made zero progress over years and remain a grumpy nit-wit — why should I trust your optimism?

Aren’t you a symptom and not a solution to the problem?

[Gary Childress]

Your faith has come like a golden ray through the murk of a veritable depression!

Sounds like you've been awakened from a dogmatic slumber.

[Dubious]

Be not discouraged by the buffooned ears of your detractors; with every sentence you speak another layer of their ignorance will be wiped until there's nothing left since all their thoughts were nothing more than the heaped layers of congealed errors.

Your faith has come like a golden ray through the murk of a veritable depression! The sense that I have been dealing with brutes. I like how you put it though: accumulations of congealed errors.

Spot on!

Still, and certainly in your case, since you have made zero progress over years and remain a grumpy nit-wit — why should I trust your optimism?

Aren’t you a symptom and not a solution to the problem?

Is this any way to respond to someone who begs for the benefit of your wisdom and thereby solve my problem and annul all symptoms which led to it?

Must I, like Tamino in the Magic Flute, forever ask when shall I see the light?

[Alexis Jacobi]

For Dubinio the prospects are bleak indeed. Tamino was a lucky sort. You, not so much.

However, if you sign up for The 16-Week Email Course I gUaRaNtEe you that there’ll appear a lamp unto your feet!

[Dubious]

For Dubinio the prospects are bleak indeed. Tamino was a lucky sort. You, not so much.

Woe is me doomed to eternal perplexity!

[Belinda]

For Dubinio the prospects are bleak indeed. Tamino was a lucky sort. You, not so much.

However, if you sign up for The 16-Week Email Course I gUaRaNtEe you that there’ll appear a lamp unto your feet!

Tamino is a proto-Freemason.
I fear that Freemasonry is divisive

[Belinda]

Well said, Belindo.

A cliche such as mine (above) is not sufficient to make an argument.

[Alexis Jacobi]

Tamino is a proto-Freemason. I fear that Freemasonry is divisive

I have in my possession THE magic flute. Indeed I am that flute, Belindo!

[BigMike]

This is the level we’re at now? Self-parody wrapped in delusions of grandeur? “Alexis will now speak!”—as if the forum has gathered in hushed reverence, waiting for the oracle to descend from his metaphysical throne. And what follows? A string of vacuous pronouncements so drenched in self-importance they might as well be satire.

And then the punchline—“I have in my possession THE magic flute. Indeed I am that flute.” What kind of unhinged nonsense is this? Is this a philosophy forum or an amateur theater audition for a play that no one asked for?

If anyone doubted the intellectual and cognitive depth of these contributions, well, here it is, in all its absurd, self-congratulatory glory. A magic flute. Truly, what a moment for human thought.

[Skepdick]

This is the level we’re at now? Self-parody wrapped in delusions of grandeur? “Alexis will now speak!”—as if the forum has gathered in hushed reverence, waiting for the oracle to descend from his metaphysical throne. And what follows? A string of vacuous pronouncements so drenched in self-importance they might as well be satire.

And then the punchline—“I have in my possession THE magic flute. Indeed I am that flute.” What kind of unhinged nonsense is this? Is this a philosophy forum or an amateur theater audition for a play that no one asked for?

If anyone doubted the intellectual and cognitive depth of these contributions, well, here it is, in all its absurd, self-congratulatory glory. A magic flute. Truly, what a moment for human thought.

Look! The automaton is back.

What do you want, ChatGPT?

[Alexis Jacobi]

A Chef's Kiss to that!

BigMike, in the name of the neuronal patterns, and in respect of the determined arrangement of all things which simply emerged somehow (who cares how) please PLEASE come back!

Did you come back for me or for Accelafine?

How in your System do you account for premonitions?

Bergman did a The Magic Flute, BTW.

Are you ready to recant?

[Belinda]

Tamino is a proto-Freemason. I fear that Freemasonry is divisive

I have in my possession THE magic flute. Indeed I am that flute, Belindo!

Sound and fury signifying nothing.

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