BS: A year without God

Subject: RE: BS: A year without God
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 03:07 AM

To be fair, I am not pondering whether Higgs boson theory is clouding the view either. If they pop into existence, good for them but for me the view from up there cannot be put into words.

I reckon Einstein was getting at the same thing, only far more eloquently. A

The superstitious world view is a bit like dismissing the infinity of the cadences in most of what Bach wrote as being mere examples of musical structure. That he teased us with cadences in the glory of a god rather being an example of how limiting his god was is rather ironic.

Subject: RE: BS: A year without God
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 07:04 AM

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro' all its regions.
A Dog starv'd at his Master's Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus'd upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar's Dog and Widow's Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander's tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy's Foot.

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the World we safely go.

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.


(With thanks to Mr Blake.)

Subject: RE: BS: A year without God
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 12:29 PM

"Being able to climb a mountain and look out without ascribing the beauty to something so limiting. Peering through a telescope and letting your mind ponder what you are really looking at, without the limiting silly answers found in translations of ancient stories."

"I agree. Though it is also worthwhile to ponder what you are really looking at without the limiting answers of modern stories"

A theory among modern neuroscientists is that our, personality, what makes us think of ourselves as individuals is our stories, those we tell others, those we tell ourselves.

I am a having hard time imagining people looking at a scenic vista and letting their minds wander but not having that wandering encroach upon the stories within that mind. It literally seems inhuman to me.

Subject: RE: BS: A year without God
From: DMcG
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 12:43 PM

Its not only neuroscientists who think that: philosophers have for centuries, psychiatrists for a somewhat shorter time.

I'm all for letting stories of all kind encroach on your mind. I have a harder time with the idea of people deliberately blocking certain types of story because they don't agree with the origin.

Subject: RE: BS: A year without God
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 01:31 PM

DMcG I agree completely.