Boycott Science!

[Ramon25]

Who's with me?

 

just felt like joking about it sense there is some much discussion about it lately.

[joeblast]

I'm all for boycotting GIGO science

Edited June 24, 2009 by joeblast

[DaoChild]

Don't you think the ancients that "Discovered" and played with Qi must've been scientists?

[Martial Development]

However you may feel about "science", consider how you will fare under the alternative.

 

At least science won't light you on fire to check whether you're a witch.

[Mokona]

You won't be flamed anymore at least, aye?

 

Science doesn't need to back up your claims. Your cultivation speaks for itself, and those who are supposed to share your path with you will be drawn to you. Its Hitsuzen!

[Desert Eagle]

"All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?" ~Chapter 15 page 26

 

One day I checked a local patent periodical catalog (200+ pages) to see if there were any patents made by local scientists and found that there were none but patents by international corporations such as Colgate-Palmolive, GlaxoSmithKline, and similars.

[Josh Young]

Funny!

Because science as a greater inclusive understanding does not exist.

There are many sciences, or fields of study, but there is no Science with a capitol S, nor can there be because each individual field must have its own unique language and domain of publication. There is no giant table where the great minds meet and share, and if they were they could not be understood.

 

Science is the tower of Babel, attempting to build a tower to god (or god like understanding) it develops so many languages and terms that it cannot reconcile them to be able to establish and greater picture.

 

Alas that the attention of one should be so limited as to be unable to encompass the whole of knowing anyway, so there is not only no big picture, if there was it would be inaccessible to beings such as we.

 

One day many of the concepts we both believe to be true and take for granted will become viewed as the foolish views of a misinformed past.

 

This is the way it has always been and so it shall be until people exist no more. But most of us will never know this, for most of us fail to realize that there is nobody who exists and understands what it means.

Edited June 25, 2009 by Josh Young

[Birch]

This is an interesting perspective on the topic http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11384.php

 

From the pitch:

 

"This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences, and the literature of science studies while upending common understandings of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, common sense, and disarming humor.

 

Science, Marks argues, is widely accepted to be three things: a method of understanding and a means of establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a voice of authority or a locus of cultural power. This triple identity creates conflicting roles and tensions within the field of science and leads to its record of instructive successes and failures.

 

Among the topics Marks addresses are the scientific revolution, science as thought and performance, creationism, scientific fraud, and modern scientific racism. Applying his considerable insight, energy, and wit, Marks sheds new light on the evolution of science, its role in modern culture, and its challenges for the twenty-first century."

 

Presently reading it.

[Ramon25]

i was just joking, damn. altthough I do agree completely with josh young, It will change and reality will shift and somehow AlOT (not all) of what we consider true today will one day be considered false. So what do we know? What is the big picture?