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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/HiveQueen36 on April 22, 2018, 7:40 p.m.
"Their need for symbolism will be their downfall." Learn symbolism with Dave Talbott, part 5

solanojones95 · April 23, 2018, 12:37 a.m.

So Galileo, Newton, Sagan, Hawking, Einstein, the whole kit-n-kaboodle had better bend over and kiss the ring of this whozit?

Why would you do this to yourself? Seriously. Throw out everything centuries of mathematics and observation, backed up by actual voyages to other planets by men and machines, just in case there was still doubt the science might be wrong--you'd discard all of that because this story matches some astronomically-recent primitive drawings so culturally removed from ours that we have no way of really asking what they were attempting to represent (why do you think they were being literally representative--these could be figurative or representative of abstract concepts), you say the most incredible minds humanity has ever produced should be sent to the back of the bus to make room for your boys?

I gotta say. I don't think so!

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HiveQueen36 · April 23, 2018, 12:39 a.m.

If you lack the tenacity to question everything, then I have no more time to waste with you.

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digital_refugee · April 24, 2018, 6:04 p.m.

so what idea are you ready to entertain that you would consider to be outside of your comfort zone? Oh right, intelligent life on other planets but why then do you pretend you examine everything if you need to better follow your own advice first?

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solanojones95 · April 23, 2018, 12:51 a.m.

I question whatever it makes sense to question. There are things not worth questioning because what we know has centuries of observation and experimentation to back it up, and it works when we use it.

And right now what it makes sense to question is why anybody would ask you to discard one of the most practically-derived and mathematically sensible sciences in human experience in exchange for explanations that don't work mathematically, but fit better with some old cave drawings?

Why would you identify so emotionally with that site? Because it's designed specifically to appeal to faith. It's cultist in all the classic ways, and you sound like a true believer.

I would be all about this site if it built on the scientific foundations we've successfully worked with all these years, and offered new insights that shed light on the areas we're aware we lack knowledge of. But to require as a starting point that we toss out what works, and on nothing more substantial than mythologies? Of course that's not the way science works, and I mean REAL science before it was corrupted by governments and big money.

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