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only everything worth explaining

Posted by: Floyd the opposite of a hippy ( Unmarked helicopter pilots' union, Local # 23, Peoples' republic of my pineal gland ) on November 19, 1999 at 20:01:34:

In Reply to: science can't explain everything posted by Tris the hippy on November 19, 1999 at 10:47:35:

: When will people learn that some things exist and cannot be expained phisically,

When someone demonstrates this to be the case. In the meantime, "science" explains a heck of a lot more than any alternative approach I've heard of. Care to offer an alternative?

:science can't explain everything, and never will. Keep your mind open

Ideally not so open that all your brains fall out.

:and your head up. Bring down materialists like McDonalds.

Why would you want to do this unless you could demonstrate that there is something wrong with McDonalds? What makes a multinational corporation "bad?" I agree that it is, but is your evaluation based on any specific principles (e.g. environmental degradation, homoginisation of cultures, poor nutrition, etc.) or do you just hate them for the sake of hating something? There are many reasons to oppose multinational corporations, but the most convincing ones are based on sound, scientific analysis of causes and effects, not on emotional responses to ugliness.

:Progress is pointless if purely phisical.

What is "progress" in your opinion? And why is purely physical progress pointless? What is the alternative that you're proposing? Metaphysical progress, perhaps? What is that, and how could we ever know if we were metaphysically progressing? Your heart seems to be in the right place, but without your head, it's not going to be very effective.
-Floyd



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