Thoughts on: Evolution and Homeopathy.

[FLAprogressive]

Poll question: Thoughts on: Evolution and Homeopathy.

[Newest Reality]

1. I believe, (as I have seen)

that what you believe does strongly effect what you experience in many ways.

I also believe that when you come to understand deeply what the nature of beliefs are and then come to question all the beliefs that you have been taught to believe are true, (by force or choice) then you then come to understand belief in a totally different way than is common and you then easily understand the difference between personal belief and personal knowledge and their relationship to experience.

When, lo and behold, belief is seen for what is is, (sets of constellations of support for one's cherished and revered values) then one is faced with the potential to choose and decide what beliefs, (or necessary illusions) are valuable and useful in a world of symbolism that is a reaction to being an excreting organism. We are faced with both the profound and frightening realization of what both life and death are and mean to us and no sane person in our culture would want to experience or admit to the implications of such.

Yet, we can then believe what is useful and necessary to our survival and that is where we can find an escape from the rugged individualism that the materialistic religion of capitalism has foisted upon us and inserted into our beliefs. We could even go so far as to be spiritual materialists in so far as our organism may be all that is or will be for us and deal with it in a way that would be for more beneficial and holy than the cult of lucre that turns out to be a way for all of us to sell-out what we are and can be in exchange for a shiny thing or a new and improved bobble of profit.

Let's go there.

[eShirl]

2. Homeopathy is as good as any other faith-based treatment.

[trotsky]

3. Great idea for a poll.

Interesting to see the number of people who accept science for some things, but not others.

[laconicsax]

4. People usually accept science where it doesn't conflict with their religion. n/t

[HuckleB]

5. At a site that should make science literacy one of its hallmarks, the poll results scare me.

:scared:

[laconicsax]

6. "Big tent." n/t

[HuckleB]

7. Well, it is big.

Still, one would think that the site itself would do something to promote science literacy, rather than let the illiteracy go unchecked.

[FLAprogressive]

8. Being anti-science is OK under the guise of "health freedom"; and when you can make a boogeyman out

of the science itself. At least that's what some here think.

[HuckleB]

9. One can also write bad, overly-dramatic fictional accounts under romantic pretenses...

... and then pretend you're doing something positive because you're "giving voice to the voiceless." Nevermind that you're just parroting a bunch on pseudo-science nonsense that leads to harm of the so-called "voiceless."

The Internet is wonderful, and yet the side-effects are very real.

[FLAprogressive]

10. Oh yes, there's that David vs. Goliath complex that somehow the "natural health" homeopaths are

the victims of an assault from Big Bad "Big Pharma".