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New Theories / Solar & Magnetic Storms - are they really that random?
« on: 31/10/2008 03:27:04 »
Dr. Becker is dead. He was nominated for the Nobel prize (twice, I believe) and was known as the Father of Electromedicine, but he's dead. He's not making any money now, and my experience on this forum (having my excitement/theories crushed) is pretty much what he describes in his book when he first started out.
People want to believe what they want to believe though. What does it really matter what word I use? Message? Instruction? Signal? Magic? They fit what I'm trying to suggest - the only problem, it seems, with my choice of words is that they suggest there might be a power greater than us (see, even I'm trying to avoid the word 'God' here) - a power though that knows more than we do and might actually care about us and have a plan for everything.
Explain happiness. I'd like to hear science explain happiness. Or love. If we're all just these eating, sleeping, reproducing nothings, then why do we need to feel happiness or love? Where's the chemical formula for happiness and love? If everything is only a rolling chain of chemical reactions, why can't we just do all of these things without feeling anything? Throw some chemicals in a beaker and show me some of those. Our thinking brains are our biggest flaw.
Do I think the sun rising in the morning is an 'instruction' for plants to start photosynthesis? You bet I do.
Do I think when it rains it's an 'instruction' for frogs to come out and splash around. Yeah.
By why do you think it's exclusive to just one life form at a time?
And we already know that the cycles of the moon have an effect and a purpose - one that's pretty vital to life. Why wouldn't the sunspots have some ulterior motive also? Just because it appears random to us and isn't nearly as predictable as the moon and other planets are, it just spews out these spots whenever for no reason? or for some chemical reason?
Birds respond to these instructions. Bees do. But we think everything we choose to do is of our own free will? - don't you think the birds and bees think they have free will, too? Or do you think the birds angrily go about their day flying south when they really wanted to do something else? They look pretty happy to me.
Life isn't just a bunch of chemicals. If it was, with our big brains we ought to have been able to create it on our own. But we've never created anything living without the use of something that was already alive, last time I checked.
I'm so tired of not being able to talk magic here though. Dr. Becker gave an example of how we'd be reluctant to believe that a caterpillar could emerge as a butterfly unless we'd seen it with our own eyes - makes me think maybe kids should be involved in science, and not adults.
People want to believe what they want to believe though. What does it really matter what word I use? Message? Instruction? Signal? Magic? They fit what I'm trying to suggest - the only problem, it seems, with my choice of words is that they suggest there might be a power greater than us (see, even I'm trying to avoid the word 'God' here) - a power though that knows more than we do and might actually care about us and have a plan for everything.
Explain happiness. I'd like to hear science explain happiness. Or love. If we're all just these eating, sleeping, reproducing nothings, then why do we need to feel happiness or love? Where's the chemical formula for happiness and love? If everything is only a rolling chain of chemical reactions, why can't we just do all of these things without feeling anything? Throw some chemicals in a beaker and show me some of those. Our thinking brains are our biggest flaw.
Do I think the sun rising in the morning is an 'instruction' for plants to start photosynthesis? You bet I do.
Do I think when it rains it's an 'instruction' for frogs to come out and splash around. Yeah.
By why do you think it's exclusive to just one life form at a time?
And we already know that the cycles of the moon have an effect and a purpose - one that's pretty vital to life. Why wouldn't the sunspots have some ulterior motive also? Just because it appears random to us and isn't nearly as predictable as the moon and other planets are, it just spews out these spots whenever for no reason? or for some chemical reason?
Birds respond to these instructions. Bees do. But we think everything we choose to do is of our own free will? - don't you think the birds and bees think they have free will, too? Or do you think the birds angrily go about their day flying south when they really wanted to do something else? They look pretty happy to me.
Life isn't just a bunch of chemicals. If it was, with our big brains we ought to have been able to create it on our own. But we've never created anything living without the use of something that was already alive, last time I checked.
I'm so tired of not being able to talk magic here though. Dr. Becker gave an example of how we'd be reluctant to believe that a caterpillar could emerge as a butterfly unless we'd seen it with our own eyes - makes me think maybe kids should be involved in science, and not adults.