SEE A ****RINK, your insane.
"T Moore" < click.an.email.ico@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> We're not all like the White Queen from Through the Looking Glass who
was
> able to believe six impossible things before breakfast, of course we're
> not. But sometimes it does seem as if Man is keen on infusing life with
> the stuff of myths, unproven theories and firmly held beliefs that are
> just waiting to be shot down - or substantiated - by a single
unequivocal
> scientific fact.
>
> Take the Flat Earth Society. How we laughed at them when photographs
> taken from space demonstrated beyond doubt that we live on a spherical
> object, twirling round its axis and orbiting the Sun. Yet it would take
> just one re****t, with photographic evidence, of, say, an ocean liner
> falling over the edge somewhere near Patagonia and the Flat Earthers
> would be back in business.
>
> Similarly, all it would take to knock the stuffing out of Astrology
would
> be the appearance on worldwide television of a person born under the
sign
> of Scorpio who did not have a magnetic personality and penetrating eyes
> that gaze directly into your soul. Failing that, a Leo with Aries rising
> who turned out to be a shrinking violet would also do nicely.
>
> We could carry this further: Man's entire religious edifice will come
> cra****ng down around his ears the moment indisputable proof emerges of
> intelligent life elsewhere in the Cosmos. And this is, of course, where
> the churches and the Flat Earth Society come together: their certainties
> date back to a time when what you saw was what there was and there was
no
> reason to assume that any other world than this one could exist.
>
> Unfortunately, conclusive scientific data on these subjects are hard to
> come by. That's why we're still walking around with our heads stuffed
> with ideas, convictions and knowledge that are as reliable as a
> Nostradamus quatrain but that do spur us on to some pretty horrific
> behaviour.
>
> Admit it, all you Muslims, Jews, Christians and others: you're ready to
> kill and die for your beliefs, but how sure are you of the facts? No,
I'm
> very anxious for the scientific community to come up with some
> spectacular answers and fast, before any more blood flows needlessly.
>
> And then, sometimes it happens. Recently Swiss neurologists have
> determined that dreams are a load of bunkum. Not voices coming from a
> burning bush, then? The Swiss had studied the case of a woman who, after
> suffering a stroke, had stopped dreaming altogether. In spite of this,
> her memory, her cognitive powers and her brain patterns during sleep had
> remained unimpaired.
>
> Bang went the theory that dreams occur as your brain files the
> experiences of your waking hours away in an orderly fa****on. Bang went
an
> even more famous theory: that dreams are a release valve for suppressed
> desires or anxieties.
>
> Bang, in other words, went Sigmund Freud. The old duffer, it now
appears,
> has been selling us a cock-and-bull theory -and done very well out of
it,
> too.
>
> But what, if not our nocturnal filing clerk or spiritual blood-letter,
is
> a dream? Well, say the Swiss neurologists, since dreaming has no
> particular function at all, look on it as no more than a sort of
> entertainment for the sleeping brain.
>
> An entertainment? Phew, what a relief. I once - and please believe me,
> this is the absolute truth - had a dream in which I was *****cally
> involved with Derdrie Barlow of Coronation Street.
>
> It's nothing I'm particularly proud of, but what could I do? For a long
> time afterwards, that dream haunted me: after all, didn't Freud say
> something about a release valve for suppressed desires?
>
> I knew, of course, that there was no question of my brain filing away
the
> previous day's experiences in an orderly manner; I'd been at work all
day
> and come home to a dinner of duck breast with red currants. But what
dark
> urges were slo****ng about in my subconscious? Did I really know myself?
>
> I'm much relieved now that I know the truth. And looking back I can say
> that, as an entertainment, she wasn't bad at all
>
>
> --
> T Moore
> N E Manchester, England
>
> http://sitemenu.tom-moore.com/
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