Friday, May 18, 2007
The Acid Barrier
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Barf. Only 2050 (tap) and I am out of subjects and only half drunk. Hmm...
Ok. I like the subject of revising ancient 'religion' into something more appropriate to a modern scientific and technological culture. I see 'Abject Atheism' as a non starter because of the human emotions called, 'wonder and awe.' You can be an Atheist and still be filled with 'wonder and awe,' and that makes you a 'religious Atheist.' Abject Atheism is a 'logical state,' but remember that emotion preceeds logic. In the case of Abject Atheism emotion has been subdued to the point of inconsequentiality. Logic rules. Emotion is reserved for stuff like pussy.
It is possible to go through a lifetime of suppressing religious wonder and awe, or at least suppressing the urge to mention it in polite scientific company. Many folks do that.
It only takes one Acid trip to screw up a lifetime of such supression. You enter an Acid trip as an abject atheist and you exit as something else, a religious atheist, your certainties shattered. You never found god back there but your certainty remained shattered. You want to do Acid again! You want to test your hypotheses and you have a hundred of them at least. You do more Acid. Your questions are answered, then quickly forgotten, the result being that you need to do even more Acid.
You eventually conclude that there is an Acid Barrier which prevents transfer of information from the Acid World to the Real World.
You try to get around it by relating your experiences in real time to a recorder or to a witness but you find it impossible to formulate your current state in actual words to either. You say things like, 'Uhh...' or 'Wow...' The Acid Barrier remains opague.
Every time you do Acid you say to yourself, 'Yes! Now I remember!' Then you forget.
You always remember the unforgetable visual beauty or it if not the details. But you want to remember the details! Request denied. No details.
Barf. Only 2050 (tap) and I am out of subjects and only half drunk. Hmm...
Ok. I like the subject of revising ancient 'religion' into something more appropriate to a modern scientific and technological culture. I see 'Abject Atheism' as a non starter because of the human emotions called, 'wonder and awe.' You can be an Atheist and still be filled with 'wonder and awe,' and that makes you a 'religious Atheist.' Abject Atheism is a 'logical state,' but remember that emotion preceeds logic. In the case of Abject Atheism emotion has been subdued to the point of inconsequentiality. Logic rules. Emotion is reserved for stuff like pussy.
It is possible to go through a lifetime of suppressing religious wonder and awe, or at least suppressing the urge to mention it in polite scientific company. Many folks do that.
It only takes one Acid trip to screw up a lifetime of such supression. You enter an Acid trip as an abject atheist and you exit as something else, a religious atheist, your certainties shattered. You never found god back there but your certainty remained shattered. You want to do Acid again! You want to test your hypotheses and you have a hundred of them at least. You do more Acid. Your questions are answered, then quickly forgotten, the result being that you need to do even more Acid.
You eventually conclude that there is an Acid Barrier which prevents transfer of information from the Acid World to the Real World.
You try to get around it by relating your experiences in real time to a recorder or to a witness but you find it impossible to formulate your current state in actual words to either. You say things like, 'Uhh...' or 'Wow...' The Acid Barrier remains opague.
Every time you do Acid you say to yourself, 'Yes! Now I remember!' Then you forget.
You always remember the unforgetable visual beauty or it if not the details. But you want to remember the details! Request denied. No details.
