Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA13104 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:01:50 +0100 Subject: Re: mysticism etc Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:59:04 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000921115902.AAA3277@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.109]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney --
>when highly intelligent and in some cases well known people
>patiently explained how wrong it is to think you can gain knowledge of the
>world through meditation. Jesus, I asked myself, how can any educated,
>intelligent person take that seriously enough to think it worth refuting?
Interesting....
I truly wonder what knowledge of the world you have really gained through
this meditation. Really. I do refute it.
Show it to me.
Produce the insight into nature that this meditation has gleaned (as
compared to the insights from observation and experimentation and the
other usual methods used by science.)
Seriously.
How can any educated person take seriously knowledge of the world
gathered from omphaloskepsis?
- Wade
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