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Originally Posted by RT Wolf  I'm not so sure about you, but I discovered after doing some probing that it is not necessarily that my logical mind can't accept LoA, under the guise of being "scientific", but it is just such a strange idea. Continually revealing the idea to me (in the form of reading a lot on IM and talking to people who believe in IM) helped to get used to it.
The other thing I realized was that I've indentified myself as being a rational/logical person, and that label has caused me to automatically reject things which science has not verified (which is alot of stuff, science and th scientific method is surprisingly limited if you look into it). Essentially, it was not "science" or the scientific method, it was the illusion of authority on the truth. The otehr thing was I'm still a little afraid of being called "unscientific" (which amounts fo "gullible" for me, unfortunately) and coming under ridicule from people. I'm pretty afraid of ridicule.
Perhaps you have similar blocks? Hope this helps. |
This might help with the ridicule thing. Lets say a "scientific" friend of yours is ridiculing you. Ask him/her "Do you believe you are a smarter scientist than Einstein"?
If they say yes, they obviously have Ego issues and you should ignore them anyways.
If they say no, then say to them - "Ok, well, since we've established that Einstein is a smarter scientist than you, and he believed in God, who is scientifically not proven, it proves that Einstein believed in unproven things."
The way I see it, LoA and all this "New Agey" stuff is actually more scientific than science. And when you say "unscientific", it's really just common high-school science that it doesn't agree with. If you go up to high level science, it doesn't disagree with LoA etc.
So in reality, the only people in the scientific community who may ridicule you are people with a high-school science understanding or less.