Earth Day
I've always loved Earth Day. I have always been a big fan of nature...hence why now I argue for the Natural Order. I loved learning about nature in schools on Earth Day. I loved the focus on the planet and coming up with ways to stop pollution...whether it's placing our trash in appropriate places or planting trees. Being more in tune and at one with nature is the purpose of Earth Day. To remind us that this precious blue marble floating in the infinity of space is a beautiful treasure. The March For Science I didn't think that anyone could steal the lime light or ruin the tree hugging holiday of Earth Day. Yet, this year, they did. I understand why people marched for Science on Earth Day. For some it was just the ability to say they stood up for something they believed in and to show how proactive they are in life by posting pictures of themselves holding signs on social media. I love each of you have done this but there is a reason I did not stand with you. I've watched enough of the fear based television programming that is driving the current narrative. I understand why they were motivated. Yet, I don't agree with the the television programs so I don't support the marches. They feel a need to act out of the name of science because funding has been cut by the government and there are those pesky 'climate change deniers.' They feel as though they need to defend the Science Establishment from Trump. I don't deny the climate is changing. I do question if it is disastrous for us and even the most ardent supporters don't think it's likely that we can reverse the trend but they hope to slow it down. As the melting ice reveals cultures that once lived in northern territories before the little Ice Age...I can't help but wonder if we've survived something similar before why we can't do it again. The fear based rhetoric is nonsense to me. Climate change aside. Why do people feel they need to defend that old paradigm? Should they? This is what we are going to cover today. The Media Narrative I have a different perspective to counter the widespread hysteria the media is offering when it comes to the state of science. Right now in human narration we are seeing this rather funny idea of old school religious thinking versus scientific reasoning. Those old republican savages who believe in religion are just going to make life on planet Earth so much worse! That's how things are being spun. That's not how I see things. I am not one to defend religions. I am encouraged more every day with the change in the way people are thinking. I love that peoples concept of the world is becoming more fluid and less concrete. I love that the consensus is getting mixed up and there are a variety of people believing a variety of things. I love that not one single group of people can dictate to the entire populace how to think. There are some trying, and they are trying to paint those who think differently than them as having mental disorders. What they don't realize is that old game has been played out already. People are tired of the fear based narratives and the self-service. Let's take a look at the evolution of the process of how and why the media can spin this into a debate between nonsensical religious believers business owners versus scientific academics who want socialism. Why can I offer this perspective? I am not emotionally involved. I am neither pro-science nor pro-religion. The people who are Marching think their survival is at stake. The Climate Change Denying religious people feel the same. I'm sorry, both categories of people are immortal beings that will not die with their physical body. You clearly think you only have one life to live and it's vastly important to the cosmos that you get it right. That is not my perspective. Yes, yes, the survival Earth of Momma Earth is vastly important. Yet, science is what has killed her these past two hundred years more than anything man could do prior. Hunter/gatherers sand even domesticated farmers didn't do all that much damage. Scientists and the worship of money have created strip mines and oil pipelines. The worship of warfare and controlling other people through fear created Atomic bombs and Hydrogen weapons. While marching in the name of Science you say that it will preserve the Earth but I see only how it has been misused to harm her. Science is the one that created the cars we drive and the factories that are polluting the atmosphere. Mother Earth will survive without us...she might shrug all of us off of her one day because we are a nuisance. The survival of our species is insignificant in her life span...she has seen the coming and going of many species. Undoubtedly, she will see many more before she joins with the son. Living on her is a right that we have abused and the worst was through the misuse of Science. Who in their right mind thinks that Science will be able to save this Planet?
Science Won't Save The Planet
I think it's wonderful you want to save the planet. I find it fascinating you think that Science that has destroyed it on a ruthless unimaginable scale will save the planet. I put the clip from Moana here because that is how I see Science. I do not see it as the mythical hero replacing the Heart of Te Feti. I see it more like Maui who stole the heart to try and help please people...but it resulted in the abuse of the Earth. The planet will continue to exist with or without us for millennia until it joins with the sun. Society does need to change it's thinking, and little by little it is... Yet, there is no purpose in continuing to fund useless Science funded by an aristocratic group of university academics who look down their nose at the rest of us as intellectual peasants unworthy of participating in the conversation. Only our money is of value to them...but they do not earn in it by trying to serve us and make our life easier. They misuse it in useless pursuits and destructive ideas. Our lives will become better when we stop trying to manipulate and re-create the cosmos in the name of Science. For all of it's study of Nature Sceicnce remains unaware of the Natural Order. Science tries to control Nature, to manipulate and destroy her in the image of men who have no respect for the beauty of the Natural Order. Without the belief that there is a Rhyme and Reason for creation they seek to undo what has been done and make it in their own warped image. This is the limitation and the travesty Science has become due to distorted logic. To stand for Science as it is today is to stand for more Hydrogen Bombs being made. More naming of remote animals that should just be left alone to thrive instead of being pictured in the pages of a magazine born from the trees that once sheltered their species. The History that Contributes to Confusion Surely, you have been taught this...but not in this context, Once upon a time an Empire came to be that sought to control of it's people through Religion. No one could question that Religion and it's Dogma without threatening the Empire. The Empire was built on belief and it was necessary that anyone who questioned those beliefs died. Freedom of Thought and Freedom of Speech were not allowed. This held back the sciences. In fact, in name of this religion scientists were burned at the stake for heresay. The scientists have not forgotten this treatment. When that Empire fell they divorced themselves from the concepts of that ideology that had held them in bondage and killed too many of their kind. Due to the disastrous intellectual poverty that the religious control of thought had caused Science made a quiet pact. They would not delve into the mysteries that those who believed in religion possessed and religion would no longer seek to control Science. They were to leave the explaination of God to the religious but could explore any manner of other explanations for the cosmos. Therefore, the idea of one Source of all life was forever banned from the Scientific way of thinking. To be a Scientist to believe and seek confirmation of a Source/God/All-That-Is was not allowed. Any Scientist who dared to do so would be mocked, ridiculed and tossed out of the elite academic society it became... Science and Spirit were not to be mixed for fear of such a terrible atrocity arising again... For many, as Science provided the miracle of technology Religion became nullified. Anyone who believed in those old mysteries were backwards in their thinking. What had religion done but cause suffering? The only thing that Science kept from the Religious ideology was that man is superior to the rest of creation. The only idea they kept is that we have the right to make the rest of creation into our own image because it is here to serve us. They took the most egotistical part of religion and got rid of the rest. The Religious became the savages that must be exterminated. Science offered ease and the potential to offer more leisure time so people could pursue more intellectual ideas. They also put people out of work because they created machines to do the work of people. They changed how much food we could grow producing mega crops. Of course, that Empire was Rome. The Mechanical Cosmos View Of Science The paradigm of the human being is changing. The Mechanical World point of view put forth and worshiped by Science has failed to explain a lot in the last 200 years. They have polluted our air and created bombs that have killed millions. Yes, it has produced some practical, beneficial and tangible results. The problem is that people are starting to realize that it hasn't explained the big questions. After 200 years of waiting human patience is running thin. Anyone looking at Phsycis realizes that it is a soft abstract science much as psychology...with lots of theories and ideas but nothing that can be proven...and so it requires belief in the intangible. In fact, they are so bent on not using God as an explanation that a whole bunch of them are convinced that we all live in a simulation run/ruled by a Computer. Never mind that man created the concept of computer and that the idea requires a Creator of some sort...but the idea that they exist within a mindless unconscious computer run simulation is far easier for them to swallow then the idea of The Source. Then again, they say the brain is a biological computer (cognitive psychology, anyone?). Yet, for the last 200 years science has taught that we must only believe in the tangible and so, in many ways, the modern study of physics is a contradiction to their argument of superiority over religion. All it took was for it to be leaked that NASA often photoshops their pictures of star systems and other planets and the idea of a Flat Earth took root. When people can't see it for themselves easily...it remains just an abstract idea within the mind that can be perceived differently if one chooses. Sure, technology has come a long way. The greatest achievements have been due to the demand of the consumers regarding practical tangible science and not by scientific curiosity. This isn't a mistake. Science has failed to explain the secrets of the universe and mankind has finally woken up to this fact. They can't explain how the brain creates consciousness (because it does not). With their current mechanical paradigm they can't explain how matter is formed (Einstein referred to one part of physics as 'spooky action at a distance'). The fact is Science can't explain the most important fundamental questions about life without go into intangible areas. Science became a religion the moment it started delving more into theories based on math then on tangible results. Once it became more about abstract ideas that people can't verify on their own...it went into the realm of belief. Useful Science Comes Out of Demand The Government has financed a lot of dead end useless studies. This simply does not make sense. While it has funded the lifestyles of a lot of scientists over the last 200 years... without producing results that make the citizens of the United States life's better...why should we pay for it? I hate to say it, but all of the useful knowledge has come from consumer demand. All of the good science comes from business (and the business model lacking compassion is a big issue with humanity today but that's a topic for another blog). Even the scientific medical industry has become more focused on business and making money then it is on actually healing people. We could look at our cell phone as a success created by science. Yet, it wasn't purely because of science that the cell phone and technology has rapidly progressed. These people weren't philosophically studying something without any meaningful contribution to the life of the human being. Technology has been entirely driven by human demand because it makes life easier. Technology is a useful application of Science and therefore finds ample investors. That's the truth, when Science can be used to help humanity people will come out of the wood work to support the project. People will exchange their labor for that product. Even in the idea stage if it is an idea that will be popular that many people will find value in...it will find funding in the private market. Knowing the mating ritual of a random beetle does not enrich the human experience. Yes, it might be exciting to some random person who finds beetles fascinating but it does not enrich the entire collective of humanity. Useful science is funded naturally, not through government taxes, but by society. Our current way of funding such things is through investments and the vehicle of the business model. Although that vehicle is a bit flawed with it's focus on repeat customers and unsustainable growth...it does drive innovation. You Invest In Ideas You Like In our subjective reality everything we perceive is based on the ideas we like. We choose what is created by how we spend our money. Government paid studies do nothing for innovation or the scientists would be able to secure funding through private enterprise and investors. I cannot think of one government funded program that has resulted in a tangible product we use that was not originally created for the military. Here we see the demand for innovation at work as the government is the buyer of the tangible result of the experiment. Notice how funding for military applications have not been cut. Nor is anyone protesting that science is being used in that way. Conclusion Government should have no influence on Science and should not Fund it. Meditating on the insanity of these marches really caused me to realize something profound. Some people want to continue to pay for useless studies that do nothing. They want to continue to fund a scientific aristocracy that does not offer meaningful contributions to humanity. The value of useful scientific information is shown by people willingly paying for it and investors wanting to fund the scientists. If someone really loves their scientific pursuit they will find a way to make them useful to others in order to fund their research. Meanwhile, no one notices or cares if we continue to pay for useful studies that contribute to the death of thousands. (Albeit, military scientific funding has resulted in useful non-lethal innovations being released to the public such as the internet). No one cares that Science when applied correctly could teach us how to learn to live within and magnify the Natural Order if they let go of the dogma they have created. If humanity let go of the idea that we are superior to all of Nature and need to bend it to our will...Science could do amazing things. As many in the scientific community have embraced Occam's Razor...that when there exists two explanations for an occurrence it is the simpler reason is better. A Source, not a computer simulation, is the simplest idea ever put forward as to what is creating everything in the cosmos. Science is at the point with physics where it is making a lot of assumptions to defend itself against the idea of a Source or All-That-IS creating everything. If these two belief systems- that of science and spirituality- become interwoven again and applied in a positive way not to control humanity but to benefit humanity... Well...we will leap forward in a way no one can dream. We are on that precipice. So, don't mourn or fight the change...embrace it and hope that it is the dawning of a new paradigm that is not limited by fear. The fear that man can destroy this world is pure folly because you think that we are more powerful then the rest of creation. This is an error in logic. Explore those new ideas and realize that reality is not as solid as you think. Let's end the battle to the death between Science and Religion...for they actually confirm each other and do not nullify one another as we have been taught. This is an old idea born from pain and suffering in our history that we need to let go. On this Earth Day my prayer is simple. My prayer and my hope is that we take that step where we realize that we are in service to creating with the Natural Order and Source...to preserve and revive this beautiful world we call Earth. Below is just a beautiful musical composition that captures how I feel about this entire subject entitled Red Sorrow by Audiomachine.
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