Quote (x_h @ 27 May 2024 05:18)
“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?”
Science is just a process we use to understand the world.
You are right there is nothing magical about science and guess what "nothing magical" about God either. Science to me is how the intellectual being comes to know God through that "discipline". When Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita while looking at the erupting fireball from the atomic bomb explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945:
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” These words are a a paraphrase of the Bhagavad Gita 11:32 where Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu – whom many Hindus think of as the supreme being – says that he is kala, or time. The problem/dilemma with science? The science you are talking about when you say, "Being thorough, careful observation, being systematic, and consistent logic" is the science even are ancient ancestors used(More so the Hindus then any other religious/philosophical belief system). It's nothing new. I'm in full support of that. What I'm not in support of is the application of science where the best minds we have today work on "military application technology". So instead of a super genius working on "how to genetically engineer a potato to contain more daily nutrients" that guy is working on, "how to genetically engineer a virus to kill" "how to engineer a robot/plane to attack an enemy using only AI". All the way up until the development of the atomic bomb science had been used beneficially to help all beings(human/plant/animal). From that point forward science became the tool in which the governing elite body "control" human populations. No "free energy" but it exists. No more "cancer" because there is a cure(suppressed for profit) but we'll never get it. Here take a "vaccine" but we didn't have any time to properly test it just trust us "it's the science".
"Science" is no longer the useful tool it once was. It is now the very means in which a governing body dictates to you what is true and what is not. There is no "scientific inquiry" the science is decided upon and then released for "public consumption". That's why I laugh because if you replace "science" in the statement I just made with "God" you immediately see the hypocrisy of science. Believing blindly in "God" may make you look/sound crazy to others. Believing blindly in "Science" can get you physically 'KILLED' or you could kill someone. Animals are killed for science by the 10's or 100's of millions just to "test things out". Big Pharma/ Big oil/ Big banks/ Big tech all fall under that "umbrella of science" and guess what "the burning of fossil fuels is terrible for the planet. Guess what? still do it. where's the science". Big pharma releases Covid vaccines without proper long term studies and are void of litigation BECAUSE the government told them, "Just get a vaccine to market as fast as you can you won't be litigated against if people start getting injured or dying. guess what? that happened, where's the science? Big tech uses advanced mathematical algorithms to gather the data of all the humans on Earth and uses that AGAINST us.
Quote (Meanwhile @ 27 May 2024 06:52)
Problem isn't scripture, it's those who are reading it.Centuries ago Christians were burning people with red hair because it was the evil's color. They were "reading" the bible too.
You are talking about a time when a majority of the human population was completely ILLITERATE and religion was used for absolute power/control. The average Christian now can actually read the Bible and try and make sense of it and not be hopelessly enslaved or killed for "disagreeing". This is the current problem with Islam. Many Muslims in poor countries are illiterate and so they can easily become radicalized by a local Imam. So yes the problem isn't "scripture" it's how people interpet the "scripture" or how it is conveyed to them from early childhood to early adulthood.
This post was edited by SwamiVivekananda on May 27 2024 11:02am