you shouldn't lose a sense of responsibility just because you start taking the roads less travelled, to the contrary...

if you get conned, well, you partly deserved it, and next time you take more care, just as in any other field. people are people, and and some have talents that are more developed than their conscience, leading to aberrations like black magic.

if you are stupid and ignorant to get involved with stuff like that, then you'll learn the hard way sooner or later why so many warnings against doing just that abound.

you don't have to hand over your credulity lock stock and barrel just because you consult a psychic, for example, but right now it's seen as something almost to be embarrassed about, which is a sign something's a bit off, imo.

if psychics didn't work, why would police forces use them? they're known for woolly thinking... not!

it's how people get their panties in a twist about other people checking out their other realities that mystifies me.

if science were always right about everything, or hadn't a track record of birthing horrors as awesome as benefits, then i would expect people to give it more credibility. to my mind, in its search for absolutes like permanent, failsafe repeatability, science betrays its addiction to literality, and while repeatability is a valuable attribute, the very existence of the word 'singularity' should give rational materialists pause for thought, one might think.

if one wants to know the Self, then one might surely be well advised to look in all the corners, for all the clues, not just the ones that 'add up', or fit some proscribed version of a story one already feels to be crystallised.

there's sort of intellectual pride that conspires to make men blind, searching in the dark for truth and meaning, relying on a cane of 'fact' to probe the unknown.

it might be the best way of guaranteeing the bridge doesn't fall down, but it doesn't cover all the bases, not by a long shot, and has to play catch-up constantly to ideation that is inherently more imaginative than fact-finding and checking, which trundles in late to help confirm, rather than establish as holy writ, as it claims to arbiter, and has (often cruelly and mistakenly) for centuries.

not all facts are 'hard'. the ones that are belong to science, the rest are free-floating as soap bubbles.

crazy horse and in wales can tell themselves till they're blue in the face that what happened to them couldn't have happened, but it did!

the caveman got a bluetooth message...

i'm sure the fanatic attachment to 'scientific truth' is in inverse proportion to man's equally silly 'faith' in superstition, equally cruel and mistaken, which in turn was the closest we had to 'science' at the time.

science as we know it is a fabulous set of toys, but it's not the whole game, as some of its adherents/disciples falsely believe...unless ( and even as) the meaning of the word itself stretches towards redefinition.

i've had many experiences that science can't explain, like those cited here. reading intelligent posters stories, like these here at ET serves as a kind of 'peer review' of a kind...

till you have one, it's like describing the taste of a banana to a martian, limited to speaking in backwards swahili, hopeless!

till he eats one himself, that is...when it becomes redundant, like my monologues, sigh...

why do these excursions excite me so? 'tis a strange sensation sticking up for something that itself avoids proof like the plague, lol.

more fool me... i guess i like getting flamed, called delusional etc... quixotic at best.

time to up meds again!

i've gone insane, again! science, please help me!

just please don't ask me for my soul in return-

 

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~