(05-27-2012, 08:43 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote:(05-27-2012, 04:46 AM)yossarian Wrote: You guys are constantly talking about critical thinking, science, reason.
Interesting. In another food-related thread I was talking about learning to trust one's own inner wisdom and intuition as regards food choices. You took objection to that as well.
Your mistake is thinking that I'm objecting. I'm asking some questions. I don't mean to be contrarian or antagonistic but I do mean to ask some Pointed Questions.
Unfortunately you haven't really answered my key questions. When you interrogated me I answered directly.
Quote:Quote:Why aren't you atheists? Doesn't critical thinking and science lead to atheism? Where is your faith? The Law of One says that the importance of faith cannot be underestimated.
Right, so go ahead and add the fake "faith" to the fake "love" and the fake "compassion" to the list. Fake "faith" being the notion that it is good to blindly trust in an external authority. Faith, as described in the Law of One, is trusting that All is Well when it comes to the big picture. This is actually a very logical conclusion, in my opinion.
What is the logic? I don't see how trusting that All is Well is logical, I guess it depends a great deal on your premises.
Quote:Quote:I don't see how Diana, Tenet, etc reconcile your views in this thread with the Law of One. Especially Tenet--you talk like a standard atheist. Do you believe in The Creator? Do you believe in God? What place does God have in the classroom? What place does God have in your suggestion that the rational scientists rule over society and control the irrational sheep?
Luckily for me, I am not relying on you to reconcile this on my behalf.
I'm not trying to solve your problems. I'm asking how you solve your problems so that I can learn. I literally want to know how you guys reconcile it all. On one hand you talk about the importance of trusting scientific elites and then on the other hand you are here... on the Law of One forum... there seems to be an inconsistency.
Quote:If I had my druthers, the world would be governed by a body comprised of intuitive scientists and rational mystics.
But intuitive scientists have no respect for evidence. They just believe s*** that resonates, cherry pick some evidence, and call it "proved" -- see David Wilcock, Free Energy people, that Proctor & Gamble guy from Thrive, yossarian, etc. These are people who consider themselves intuitive scientists but really they are just pseudoscientists.
Quote:But to speak more directly to your concern, which I think is totally valid, about the people being controlled and manipulated by the intelligentsia of the world, I would submit that this occurs because the average person is so easily hoodwinked by logical fallacies. It's not the logic part that is the problem, it is the fallacy part.
Unfortunately, many people who have been previously hoodwinked by another person's fallacious thinking tend to reject logic altogether, rather than develop their own reasoning skills to exceed those of the manipulators.
So do you think the Ra material supports logical thinking? If so, why does it suggest you only trust things that are resonant?
It seems if Ra supported logical thinking, Ra would recommend you determine truth using logic rather than using resonance.