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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2008 16:06:54 GMT 10
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Post by jmd on Jul 15, 2008 19:41:48 GMT 10
But what has NEVER been found is the missing link between Homo Sapiens and bigoted Creationists!
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2008 23:57:28 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 29, 2008 13:24:10 GMT 10
Professor Joseph Campbell opened his book Myths to Live By, with the following account: I was sitting the other day at a lunch counter that I particularly enjoy, when a youngster about twelve years old, arriving with his school satchel, took the place at my left. Beside him came a younger little man, holding the hand of his mother, and those two took the next seats. All gave their orders, and, while waiting, the boy at my side said, turning his head slightly to the mother, “Jimmy wrote a paper today on the evolution of man, and Teacher said he was wrong, that Adam and Eve were our first parents.”
My Lord! I thought. What a teacher!
The lady three seats away then said, “Well Teacher was right. Our first parents were Adam and Eve.”
What a mother for a twentieth-century child!
The youngster responded, “Yes, I know, but this was a scientific paper.” And for that, I was ready to recommend him for a distinguished-service medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
The mother, however, came back with another. “Oh, those scientists!” she said angrily. “Those are only theories."
And he was up to that one too. “Yes, I know,” was his cool and calm reply; “but they have been factualized: they found the bones.”
The milk and sandwiches came, and that was that.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 27, 2008 22:15:38 GMT 10
God's JokeThe platypus waddles down the red carpet, ducking creationists' hurled cursesby Jeannette Cooperman [Excerpts]
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Post by synchronicity on Sept 28, 2008 5:44:34 GMT 10
Ironically, Creationists may have got it wrong even from their own point of view!Joke! ;D
The serious post comes later...Edited to resize cartoon, Tamrin
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Post by synchronicity on Sept 28, 2008 6:27:01 GMT 10
By now you guys must think that I am obsessed with the Kybalion (which I probably am), but once again I think it provides the answer.
It seems to me that both Creationists and Evolutionists are expressing half-truths. Evolution and Creation are not mutually exclusive, in fact they are both part of the Kybalion's occult view of the Universe.
(Of course, bigoted creationists who literally believe that God created Adam out of mud and Eve out of one of Adam's ribs have a BIG learning curve in front of them - in fact, need to grow a brain before joining the debate. Which is another reason why they ought to believe in evolution, ;D but I digress...)
According to the Kybalion Creation, Evolution and Involution are all part of the process:
The "upward movement" consists in evolution through a very long series of increasingly refined levels of existence. These are artificially defined and separated purely in order to study and understand them, but in reality they "shade into each other."
In any event, the Kybalion's classification of these planes of existence begins with the basic three, which are then subdivided again and again, to give us a more detailed view.
To begin with, we have:
Each of these is then subdivided into seven sub-planes, thus for the first two we have:
and
And this is where it gets very interesting indeed!!
For WHAT, you may ask, are these 'Elemental Mind' A, B and C?
Read on...
So, could our elusive 'missing link' be hidden on an Elementary, or Elemental Plane?
According to the Kybalion, it is!
And, as we know, what is true of the Mental Plane must also be true of the Biological Plane.
As above, so below.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2008 7:45:23 GMT 10
Another way of putting it is that the physical body is a vehicle for the spiritual Self (an expression of the One Self). The physical body is evolving along one line and the spiritual Self along another and between these two planes of being are several others. Now it appears that spirit and matter may intersect, as represented by the vesica piscis: The evolving spirit may influence the subtle etheric body which, is geared down to produce gross, individualistic changes in the development of a particular physical body. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955) French Geologist, Priest, Philosopher and Mystic I believe this to be reasonable (and likely) but I would not like to see it taught as science. Science has its limits and such speculations are beyond its methods and therefore outside its realm. Similarly, I am not against Intelligent Design, per se, but it is not scientific and I would not like to see it taught as Science.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2008 7:56:34 GMT 10
Science has its limits and such speculations are beyond its methods and therefore outside its realm. Albeit, these limits can be overlooked by scientists and teachers. Thus we read: Many behaviourists in psychology have, in practice, seemed to make philosophical claims about what exists, rather than merely to impose methodological restrictions on what they will allow themselves to count as evidence.
Anthony Quinton
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2008 11:50:56 GMT 10
Science has its limits and such speculations are beyond its methods and therefore outside its realm. Prof. Joseph Campbell wrote on the subject, saying ( Myths to Live By, pp.16/7): Every little group is fixed in its own long-established, petrified mythology, changes having occurred only as a consequence of collisions; such as when the warriors of Islam broke into India and for a time there were inevitable exchanges of ideas; or when the British arrived and another upsetting era dawned of startling, unanticipated innovations. In our modern Western world, on the other hand, as a result of the continuing open-hearted and open-minded quest of a few brave men for the bounds of boundless truth, there has been a self-consistent continuity of productive growth, in the nature almost of an organic flowering.
But now, finally, what would the meaning be of the word "truth" to a modern scientist? Surely not the meaning it would have for a mystic! For the really great and essential fact about the scientific revelation—the most wonderful and most challenging fact—is that science does not and cannot pretend to be "true" in any absolute sense. It does not and cannot pretend to be final. It is a tentative organization of mere "working hypotheses" ... that for the present appear to take into account all the relevant facts now known.
And is there no implied intention, then, to rest satisfied with some final body or sufficient number of facts?
No indeed! There is to be only a continuing search for more—as of a mind eager to grow. And that growth, as long as it lasts, will be the measure of the life of modern Western man, and of the world with all its promise that he has brought and is still bringing into being; which is to say, a world of change, new thoughts, new things, new magnitudes, and continuing transformation, not of petrifaction, rigidity, and some canonized found "truth."
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