Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (1246)	9/8/1999 5:13:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Therefore, religious people are in the grip of priestcraft, and are incapable of free thought I assume you are putting this forward as an example of error, not as something you belive.

To: Neocon who wrote (1246)	9/8/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

The points you make are quite thoughtful and you have put your finger on one of the issues that run through many of the coffee shop threads here on SI. It is not a narrative, really; it is a dialectic construct of extremes. Those of us who are people of faith and also people of reason often find ourselves shunted aside equally by the aggressive atheists and by the aggressive "Christians" as though we did not exist. It is a most unnerving experience, I assure you. At one time I thought of majoring in mathematics while in college. The further I went, the more there was a touch of the mystical. I dismissed the experience as simply a reflection of my own thinking processes until a friend, a theoretical mathematician, commented that it was mathematics that had brought him to an appreciation of the probability of some sort of being--God, Gaia, whatever. He said that although he practices no formal religion, he has begun to study the mystics and to meditate. Interesting that I hear that some physicists seem to have had the same experience.