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What I do best

Post by one of those jerks » December 15th, 2011, 2:28 pm

"Argue from ignorance"
Houdin's Skeptical Advise
Before you say something is out of this world, first make sure that it is not in this world. Scientific American February 2011
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Post by Artguy » December 16th, 2011, 11:31 am

I try so hard to put my self in a meditative place, but ignorance gets me in a strangle hold and I am doomed...and at the same time i am critical of ignorance...dilemma!!!

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Post by jackofnightmares » December 17th, 2011, 7:54 pm

Just being aware of duality is not enough for me, I keep trying to move beyond it. I am a fool that way. Maybe I am coming to my senses at the tender age of 71. Like those little statues of the laughing Buddha a lot. Sometimes Vonnegut's humor seems kind of grim, but it is kind I think. I have heard that Christ had a or has a sense of humor.

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand." kind of a koan maybe by Kurt Vonnegut from Cat's Craddle


Houdini's skeptical advice to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... cal-advice

This problem is called the argument from ignorance (“it must be true because it has not been proven false”) or sometimes the argument from personal incredulity (“because I cannot imagine a natural explanation, there cannot be one”). Such fallacious reasoning comes up so often in my encounters with believers that I conclude it must be a product of a brain unsatisfied with doubt; as nature abhors a vacuum, so, too, does the brain abhor no explanation. It therefore fills in one, no matter how unlikely.
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect" Santayana The Idea of Christ in the Gospels

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