Comments on "War of the Worldviews" ends with clear win for scienceTypePad2011-10-26T21:23:33ZBrian Hineshttps://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2011/10/war-of-the-worldviews-ends-with-clear-win-for-science/comments/atom.xml/cc commented on '"War of the Worldviews" ends with clear win for science'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e20153929fb7dd970b2011-10-27T16:32:50Z2011-10-27T17:44:15Zcchttp://codgertations.blogspot.comWe could define "suffering" as having nothing but theories upon which to act, and not suffering as relying as much...<p>We could define "suffering" as having nothing but theories upon which to act, and not suffering as relying as much on sensitivity and intuition as rational thought. Jus' sayin'. </p>Steven Sashen commented on '"War of the Worldviews" ends with clear win for science'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e20162fbf23a33970d2011-10-27T05:25:09Z2011-10-27T17:44:15ZSteven Sashenhttp://www.anti-guru.comI have a number of physicist friends. All of them (and I) hope that the LHC does NOT discover the...<p>I have a number of physicist friends. All of them (and I) hope that the LHC does NOT discover the Higgs-Boson which would require physicists to re-invent Quantum Mechanics. And they're all ecstatic over the idea that neutrinos have been caught speeding in a 300,000,000 mps zone, which would violate Einstein's primary premise.</p>
<p>I don't know one Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Jew who is excited about the possibility that their fundamental beliefs are shown to be false. I have, on the other hand, watched quite a few Buddhists get squirmy when I suggest even the possibility that a permanent and instantaneous shift in awareness to one where there is no longer any experience of suffering is (usually called "enlightenment"), most likely, a myth... or a sign of a particular type of stroke.</p>