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RE: A Word on Superstition
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Ruphus
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 RE: A Word on Superstition (in reply to BarkellWH)
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Hey David,
I thought to be the only uncle with nephews worth banging your head against real estate. ;O|
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH
That, in part, is how religions have historically arisen, leading to a priestly caste that itself uses superstition and belief to maintain its position of power, either absolute or as an adjunct to the secular authority that uses it as a source of legitimacy.
Really well said! 
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About alien abduction.
Think to have mentioned iit once on the foro:
Some people occasionally experience sustaining deep sleep "paralization" during wake up. This ought to be feeling as if you can´t move limbs while it appears as if you can´t breath with the chest standing still.
Interesting how people with same symptoms then fancy differently according to popular myth of their corresponding cultural sphere.
Over here in Middle East folks fancy a kind of horrible bitch (in detailed ways of traditional telling) sitting on their chest and holding down their arms with enormous strength.
Whereas in USA people see - you name it - aliens confining them.
So much about precondition.
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On alien (and for that matter hypothetical future artificial intelligence ) potential characteristics:
Recently in a newspaper I saw a hypothetical outline first time in accordance to my personal conclusion.
Unlike common expectations on possible artificial intelligence or aliens (as for dominance striving / aggressive beings) it was pointed out that up from a certain level of intelligence reason ought to have been taking over inherently.
Thus, advanced artificial intelligence / consciousness should have no interest in behaving as aggressive like we (unnaturally) are doing over the past 5000 years.
Instead it should display sensible and progressive, hence rather likely helping us with matching our behaviour to our physically and anthropologically potential intellect.
From there I suppose that beings who are smart enough to make a cosmic trip to here, in place of gagging and torturing us would rather be throwing our iPhones and trendy luxury sneakers out of the window and motivate us to stop the berserk destroyment of earths evolution.
They would probably order oligarchs and their state´s entourage to wipe asses in hospitals (for them to learn sympathetic emotions) and collect garbage in countrysides and oceans (for them to see what they did not care about), organize the freeing of earthly resources for everyone and the re-establishing of natural refuges.
Not just for their unlikely appearance in our solar system should no one fear aliens, but
rather expect them as potential liberators from our literally idiotic and suicidial plague of plutocracy.
Ruphus
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Date Mar. 5 2015 15:43:29
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Ricardo
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From: Washington DC
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RE: A Word on Superstition (in reply to guitarbuddha)
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ORIGINAL: guitarbuddha
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
No, superstition arises when really bizarre coincidences or events occur that can't be explained logically and makes your hair stand on end. If more than a single individual be involved, the superstion strength is increased exponentially. Predicted repetition will make it worse and worse etc.
TV shows like 'Ghost Hunters', 'Most Haunted', 'Psychic Detective','The Ghost Whisperer' are full of 'really bizarre coincidences' and events that 'can't be explained logically and make your hair stand on end'. Each week a new set of characters are introduced and 'the superstitious strength is increased exponentially (and the predictable) repetition will make it worse and worse'.
They are most definitely not making these shows for love.
Maybe they have in fact supplanted the old school withchdoctors who would say. 'I am closer to this mysterious realm than you because my father and his father before him explored it with our special powers which you will never fully understand'. But much remains the same camera tricks/CGI and fantastical testimonials stand in well for smoke, mirrors and hallucinogens.
My nephew asked me if I thought I would ever see an alien, I said no. He looked blankly at me as I explained why (I get a lot of that) and replied that he thought that he would see one. His answer when I asked why ?
'Because I am an optomist'.
But he has seen Aliens already......... on TV I went to the toilet and hit my head off the wall.
D.
Yet "astrobiology" is a legit scientific field of study. Not much different than Ghost hunters etc.... my point is that unless a well experienced skeptic is around in EVERY case to nip a "coincidence" or unexplained experience in the bud, immediatly, then the idea spreads like wildfire, reinforced by the emotions and memory of the occurance. Memory itself is a HUGE problem, tied directly to what I said about conspiracy theory...beautful CREATIONS of the mind. Filling in the blanks etc, often exaggerating points while leaving out others, like a good painter.
People that are skeptics don't spend those hours perusing ghost hunter type TV...that commodity is sold to the people that had an experience or memory THEMSELVES or someone close, and find it interesting. There is a reason they keep a guy like Spock on the ship to keep perspective, but he can't be everywhere for everybody all the time. And in the end, try to count the number of times Kirk had to go against Spock's idea in order to succeed.
Ricardo
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