Re: 9 Shades of Gray
Curious; 4 members have given their input re the Wired article I linked and 4 different takes or opinions were expressed to some degree. We have Sinera on the one end who perhaps 'protesteth too much' - his sensitivities being assaulted he waste no words decrying the legitimacy of the article. Kinkajou, CFT and myself appreciated the fun or funny of it. It appears Homeopathy is the most contentious of the 'spoofed' Theories.
I have spoken to this practice before and my opinion stands.
http://www.astraldynamics.com.au/sho...ght=homeopathy
I cannot emphasize enough that the journal Nature is an august scientific journal published for and by legitimate scientists.
Homeopathy was then and remains a very sensitive issue.
I have been to the Wired website a few times and, to me, it is similar to the old MAD mag and the National Lampoon. It's tongue-in-cheek stuff.
Astrology took a hit from Kinkajou and CFT gave her qualified take on the subject. Alchemy is ‘terrific fantasy’ according to Kinkajou but she leaves open the possibility of science being able to one day manage the transformation of ‘lead into gold’. This is very much my line of thinking, however, I would elaborate to a great extent other reasons for the Alchemist Philosophy.
Particle physicists are now and have been for some time able to manipulate free electrons and free protons so it naturally follows that soon they will be able to manipulate the atom itself. Consider that gold (Au #79 in the periodic table of elements) has a mass of 197.0. Element #78, which is platinum, has a mass of 195.1 and mercury, Hg, has a mass of 200.6. It doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to suppose that atoms of platinum and mercury could be increased or decreased in atomic weight to arrive at a weight/mass of 197.0 which is gold.
Back to Astrology, I know it to be ‘born from the side of’ Kabbalah wherein it has its genesis. If one can accept that there are many powerful cosmic influences at play and these influences modulate over time, then you can imagine that at any given point in time a snapshot of these pervading influences might affect the ‘nature’ of the new-born at that specific point in time.
That’s enough from me, but lastly, I can’t help but point out the humor of Sinera’s Mark Twain quote:
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
After all, Samuel Clemmons was a humorist and here he is only poking fun at statistics. In fact, the science of Statistics is the measure of the probability that an hypothesis has either born the burden of truth and validity or failed by returning a ‘null’ result.
These are nothing but my personal thoughts and should carry about as much weight as a hydrogen atom. Hoho.
Matter is only mind in an opaque condition; and all beauty is but a symbol of spirit.
- E Hubbard
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