On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:06:45 -0500, in alt.astrology, Jyeshta
<whatever@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:55:10 +0100, Cardinal Chunder
><cc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Kimba W, Lion wrote:
>>> "Zippy P" <zippyp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Occam's razor sez:
>>>>
>>>> Which is more likely,
>>>>
>>>> 1) There are supernatural things like ESP, out of body stuff, ghosts,
>>>> mindreading, instrumental telecommunications, remote viewing, voices
on tape
>>>> and aliens, and we all just choose not to believe in them because
we're all
>>>> afraid of knowing the real truth.
>>>>
>>>> OR
>>>>
>>>> 2) You're a kook
>>>
>>> "The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human
mind to
>>> correlate all its contents. The sciences, each straining in its own
>>> direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing
together
>>> of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of
reality
>>> that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the
deadly
>>> light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
>>> --H.P.
Lovecraft
>>>
>>> Occam's Razor is just an excuse to cuddle up with your preconceived
notions
>>> and not think about things.
--me
>>
>>There is a difference between thinking about things and imagining
things.
>
>Yet, without imagination, we'd still be in the Stone Age.
Without thinking we would believe in astrology, praying to rocks,
beast, statues, and a imaginary man that lives in the sky.
Oops you still believe in some of that stuff, don't you?
--
Ak'toh'di
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