[MD] Intellectual and Social

[MarshaV]

Hi John,

It's just the the media.  I've heard professors of astrophysics and particle physics 
talk with a certainty that made me angry:  "This isn't just mathematics, it's real."   
Or I mentioned at the Hayden Planetarium Whoopi Goldberg stating "It's true 
because the scientists have discovered it to be true."  Many of these scientists 
seem as narrow-minded as any medieval church Inquisitor.  


Marsha



On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:59 PM, John Carl wrote:

>> [Arlo]
>> As with all theories, those who hold them understand they are metaphors,
>> analogies, descriptions that best serve to illuminate the unseeable Void.
> 
> 
> Ok Arlo, I'm gonna lay out for you my particular rant now.  Pay close
> attention and please don't jump to conclusions based on past arguments with
> others.  I'm certainly not a knee-jerk talk show follower, ok?
> 
> The fact that those who hold the theories understand them to be just that,
> is true.  But the way it works in the modern age, intellectualism takes a
> diabolical twist.  Because the theoretical knowledge, gleaned by analytical
> minds, is encapsulated and transmitted via powerful media imagery into the
> homes of millions, and these millions don't really think through the
> philosophical underpinnings of theory and analogistic ways of thinking.
> They pretty much take what they see as truth.  They conflate the image with
> the word, they confuse the reality they see (an artificial construct) as the
> same thing as "the truth of the experts".  They believe they understand the
> origins of life, the universe and everything.
> 
> 
> Ellul helped me to see all this, and he points to the culprit as the CHURCH
> that started it all.  The medieval church with its icons and painted
> representation, heck, even the crucifix, all this imagery was constructed to
> impress upon the minds of the masses the hidden priestly truths of the
> bible, a seeingly noble and efficient means but unfortunately, expressly
> forbidden by the same tome they touted.
> 
> Read the second commandment sometime in a non-catholic bible.
> 
> They did far more damage to society than Aristotle, for nowadays this
> technique is unleashed upon a supposedly democratic nation, with the result
> being the deluded and ignorant masses see something on tv, they don't take
> it analogistically, they take it as reality itself.    And this has worse
> effects than cosmological ignorance.  It's got great political significance.
> 
> 
> I'd feel sorry for most of them, but Krimel really oughta know better.
> 
> Honestly, when he mentioned watching Nova, I literally fell on the floor
> laughing.
> 
> John, eschewer of the glowing idol of the AwDga cult
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