
Originally Posted by
xdamage
Here is the tough problem issue for me. For some it seems that the believe that we should accept all views, no matter how preposterous, and just let everyone be. Me, I think this is dangerous for our society, and that we risk creating new B.S. religions, scams, and most important of all, raising a generation of people who end up being very unintelligent because instead of spending their time learning what they should be learning, they spend that time studying mysticism, magic-thinking, and pseudo-sciences.
In my own way, I think it's being "mean" to lie to someone and tell them they are making sense when the reality is every part of my being is thinking the exact opposite.
The other point I wanted to make is this... science, and I mean real science, has revealed that the Universe is far more amazing and strange then anything that these pseudo-scientists dream up. Quite frankly the fictions people make up in their heads are limited, various repeats of the same old things. You want to be blown away... read something like Richard Feynman's work on Quantum Electrodynamics. For one thing, it won't make any sense at all (unlike Greg Braden who just makes up BS that layman think they understand). But if you are willing to spend enough time to learn even part of what Feynman covers in his work, you'll get a small glimpse at how the sub-atomic world is unlike anything that we can relate to at our level. The difference is, Feynman's work is the basis of actual provable, repeatable results that have bled down to people like you and I in the form of products, and bled inward adding to the total pool of work being done in Physics. And that's just one tiny little area. You could spend a lifetime studying how Genes work, or how our Brain learns, and so on, and any of these fields would open your eyes to how truly amazing our Universe is. We dont need fictions and scam artists - while they appeal to the ego of lay people, they don't add to our pool of useful knowledge, and they frankly are not that fascinating. The real universe is bigger and far more amazing then the crap these guys dream up to sell books.
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