On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:09:45 -0500, KateXelco@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2007 19:47:32 -0800, "h elmer | espeance" <espeance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
> > yeah, no kidding!
> >
> > i tire of the continuous debate though, of "let's validate it through
> > science" . . .
> >
> > (this is not directed at you, just in general)
>
> Understood. :-)
>
> > if that's what somenone
> > wants to do, fine, go do it, present the results in a calm manner, but
> > don't constantly try to force to an opinion, make it available, and
> > that's the end of it
> >
> > my pesonal experience with obes and the like is beyond a rational only
> > scientific mindset, i believe there is more than rationality, and most
> > likely will continue to do so, it feels correct for me
>
> I agree, actually. I think it's wonderful to have the kind of
open-minded
> worldview that permits for possibilities not readily apparent. The
problem
> comes when people again close their minds around such possibilities and
start
> trying to enforce their views on others - that's happened far more often
in the
> name of spirituality, religion and mysticism than it's ever happened
with
> science.
(Note - that's not to say, of course, that it's -never- happened with
science,
only that it isn't quite so easily justified in the scientific realm -
especially with science as it exists today, it's damn near -impossible- to
justify violent actions against others - not so with any religion of which
I am
aware).
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