User talk:Dan

Rather than putting a line on your main page and commenting , Dan, I added this talk page. If you want to remove it, go ahead. I like what you wrote and have many similar ideas. Here on wikipedia I started Angel, then Dakini, then New Age. The latter has so many revisions(over 150) from people inwardly biased who haven't a clue what New Age means, but decide what was written from an experiential POV must be wrong, or "evangelizing", or biased, or anything else they wished to come up with... a poor excuse for knowing nothing about the subject. Take a look at the 3 talk sections on New Age, and you might see a history of this behavior. Most importantly, Larry Sanger and Jimmy Whales have both emailed me, trying to "lay down the law", or to correct my writing style.

I've noticed many of the prolific authors, who are on here all the time, use a gang mentality. They feel justified in removing content using the wikipedia standards, and track a victim like wolves hunting weaker prey. Once they draw blood, meaning the person here complains, they destroy context, use snide remarks, and eventually Larry jumps in to endorse these predators' ripping-going-for-the-juggler hunting/stalkings. This may seem a little blown out of proportion, but to the victim, she hurts from their bites. Some of these wolves advised me to leave wiki; some said I needed a thicker skin.

There is another reality that cannot be measured with scientific instruments. What is time, other than the ticks on a clock? Time does work for all the rules of science, yet now physicists are beginning to see a higher truth where time stops. They are mystified by 90% of the universe being dark matter, meaning all the laws of nature and science apparently are only 10% of "what-is".

Tacit(silent) knowledge may be mystical, or a deep gnosis, in that a person knows she knows, beyond any doubt. Skeptics always love to descend like flies on rotting meat, once their reality is jeapordized by the Truth, from another POV; and they never admit the source of their Fear is homeostatic complacency. BF

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THE LOOBY

   Only loobies find excellence in these words.
   It is thinkable that A is not-A; to reverse this is but
     to revert to the normal.
   Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of
     which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a
     new function of brain is established.
   Vague and mysterious and all indefinite are the
     contents of this new consciousness; yet they are
     somehow vital.  by use they become luminous.
   Unreason becomes Experience.
   This lifts the leaden-footed soul to the Experience
     of THAT of which Reason is the blasphemy.
   But without the Experience these words are the
     Lies of a Looby.
   Yet a Looby to thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius
     Ruby to GOD, may be!

talk:Pascal's Wager

You are bringing up a great deal of silliness, and I reccomend you take a deep breath and reappraise the tract you are looking to take with your edits on religious articles. You havn't upset me at all, but I must warn you religious artilces attract about as much heat and passion as you are likely to find on the wikipedia, and I wouldn't want you to catch the ugly lack of wikiquette from someone who is less amused. just so you know, the universal life church allows you to become a Christian reverend, it doesn't create new, non-christian faiths. Likewise, the US govt. is particularly stingy when it comes to authorizing new faiths, due to the tax benifits, and their having been burned in the past (scientology anybody?). Anyways, cheers, and thanks for the laughs. Sam Spade 08:52, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Universal Life Church calls itself an existentialist religion. Ulc.org clearly states that they will ordain anyone, regardless of creed or beliefs. (See http://www.ram.org/misc/awards/pittnewsoped.html as well.) I've founded a Universal Life Church of the Star Goat, with the required three members and a statement of beliefs.

Now, the founders of the Goatist religion clearly have strong beliefs about God and the non-existence thereof. They express these beliefs through the Reformed Church of the Star Goat. If you think no-one could believe in a literal Goat, I suggest you study the history of the Reformed Druids of North America. Heck, I've made myself believe in a personal Eris at times. I plan to invoke and believe in the Star Goat next time I feel like a Discordian ritual. As you can see, I take silliness very seriously.

I won't mention Goatism in the article unless someone decides to include the 'no-one could really believe that' argument. But even though that argument makes no sense, I suspect that someone outside Wikipedia has made it. In other words, some who wants to include it could probably find an external source. We can safely regard statements of the form, "No-one could think X," as false. Dan 07:33, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yep, folks sure are nutty. I'm glad you find yourself so very funny, that is an atribute to prize in this life. Good luck, and thanks for all the fish. Sam Spade 15:46, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I added that stuff about two periods, but I no longer have the book. As a boy, I spent many hours with "Science and Sanity" and at the end, after all the rambling, I could find little in terms of "action items" in today's lingo, other than to exercise consciousness of abstracting and that use of two periods, or maybe you are right, a comma and a period. I agree that I did not see a lot of sentences with two terminal periods, but I am sure it was one of Korzybski's very few specific instructions. People do not always do what they recommend. Feel free to delete that if you like. The idea is, however, consistent with Korzybski's preoccupation with the apparent inability of sense data and, even worse, words, to capture extent of the world. Thus, the use of the structural differential is at least partly to remind one that one is abstracting, selecting, and the two periods seemingly are consistent, as a reminder of what was left out. Pdn 05:08, 12 May 2005 (UTC)