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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (20885)	8/7/2001 3:16:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You are perhaps a disciple of Külpe. There are no other researchers (that I know of) who do not accept the historical view that all conscious experiences are either perceptual or quasi-perceptual images. I am afraid you are arguing from your imagination (AGAIN) rather than from science. AS for the western conception of God, I agree. This imagination of the supernatural is still prevalent. It is actually a primitive conception, which is surviving (like the Catholic church), on inertia. There is nothing which recommends these old ideas to the modern mind. The idea that an infinite being should be all good had no basis except desire, and in fact had continually and perpetually to press up against the antithesis supported by experience and observation. Humankind have imagined thousands of Gods. In all cases the imagination was tempered and led by the experiential setting of the dreamers. It is thus and will be so...