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Originally Posted by TheSkronkDonkey
The first banana is your former statement, the one butt-fucking it is the latter.
Yes, some of the ideas in religion are quite beautiful. Others, however, are quite horrid. And anything beautiful can easily be made horrible if it is never questioned -- which is religion in a nutshell.
My thanks. 
I'm not sure science could ever be our salvation, but it's the best system we've ever developed, and the most logical and humanising one of all.
Very true. Scientists are human. To err is to be human.
It would be a very important and essential step.
From my perspective, the way to do it is through critical thinking -- which is the opposite of religious dogma, on multiple levels.
A very nice post. You seem like a mature and sensitive person. That said, I choose evolutionary psychology (and other branches and academic disciplines), not the ways of Tantra. Science, not religion. |
Thanks for the positive response. I agree that evolutionary psychology is basic to understanding how the brain works. I view Tantra not as a religion but as a way of "adjusting" the mind. Eckard Tolle is another way on this path. A number scientists have been impressed with Tantra/Hindu wisdom including Schrodinger and Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer's comments and thoughts after the first bomb test
"Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita:
" If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... "
"Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his head at that time: namely, the famous verse; "Kalo Asmi Loka-ksaya-krit Pravardho, Lokan Samartum iha Pravattah"[47] and was quoted by Oppenheimer after the successful detonation of the first nuclear weapon. He translated it as "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."