If an experience seems real, it is real.
\nIf an idea feels right to you, it is right.
\nWe are incapable of acquiring knowledge of the true nature of reality.
\nScience itself is irrational or mystical.
\nIt’s just another faith system or belief system or myth, with no more justification than any other.
\nIt doesn’t matter whether beliefs are true or not, as long as they’re meaningful to you.”<\/p>\n
a summary of New Age beliefs, from THEODORE SCHICK JR. and LEWIS VAUGHN, How to think about weird things: Critical thinking for a new age<\/u><\/em>.<\/p>\n “Forget for a while all of your knowledge of physics. Franz Mesmer, advice for those having trouble being hypnotized.<\/em><\/p>\n “No one could have imagined back then that they would discard their own State Department’s 11 volumes of plans for what to do; that they would not guard the borders; that they would not guard the ammunition dumps; that they would disband the army; that they would not keep a civil service structure in place; that they would not provide the electricity and provide the jobs and the services.<\/p>\n “This has been incompetently handled, mismanaged every step of the way,” “The world is better off with Saddam Hussein sitting in a prison cell, and that stands in stark contrast to the statement my opponent made yesterday when he said that the world was better off with Saddam in power. I strongly disagree.” If an experience seems real, it is real. If an idea feels right to you, it is right. We are incapable of acquiring knowledge of the true nature of reality. Science itself is irrational or mystical. It’s just another faith system or belief system or myth, with no more justification than any other. It doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRemove from your mind all objections that may occur.
\nNever reason for sex weeks
\nBe very credulous; be very persevering; reject all past experience, and do not listen to reason.”<\/p>\n
\nJohn Kerry; yesterday<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGeorge H.W. Bush; today<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"