OK, first of all, if any of you are in the algorithmic/mechanics of brains, go see this:
http://voidspace.hypermart.net/Psychology/Leary_Brain.html
(A model of the brain in 8 circuits, including drug-triggers. Yep. No typo.)
PHATMAN: It`s a good thing we are not already ripping ourselves to shreds because we start from different platforms. J/K ;0)
With the small amount of time of my living, I have come to the conclusion that faith, religion, etc. is a very personal matter, and everybody constructs his own model both in function of what one learns and one experiences.
Sure, exchanges can be done, but from what I have seen, people debate but they almost never change ideas, specially when things get heated. It takes a significant emotional event to change one`s deep seated spiritual point of view. People mostly change gears and their own speed.
Therefore, there is not much too say, really. What is true for you is true for you. What is true for me is true for me. Nobody can force, theoretically, another one to change viewpoints (except cults, force, etc.). One can expose his premises, explain the gaps and reasoning, but ultimately beliefs is something each one chooses on his own. As long as adhesion is willing, not forceful, and not coming from some big organization (or system). Ultimately, it is the person who changes by herself. Well, at least for a lasting one IMHO.
At start, it is a simple, deeply personal thing. It is just that some people cannot accept the status quo and/or difference and need to go on crusades
. That is one of the reasons why I love science. If I have questions, wonders, or a beef against gravity, for example, nature will just sit there and let me experiment all I want, wherever I am. No human intervention is necessary, except for learning and logistics, so to say, but I digress. Nature, like a tornado, wont change her laws for me, whatever my wishes. She will answer only to a very systematic way of questioning. Secrets are not revealed easily. There is a consistency to laws of nature. They
re very constant. What works in chemistry here works very much alike elsewhere on the globe. Same thing for gravity, etc. I just so happen to like that, specially the impartiality of it.
To close, my speckle of dust
viewpoint can be seen in many ways. I prefer to bring it back to the sense
level. Ill concentrate on what I can change, on my little own 2 square feet of planet earth, with the undetermined amount of time I have. Since it is undetermined, better do the best of it each time. Sure, I am a speckle, others too. But, like our forefathers who laid the groundwork for our century, I
m doing my part, through work, to keep the standards of living getting better and better with the least amount of drag in the process to my fellow man and woman. That could seem small and simple to everybody, but heck, we live in others legacy and it
s far more real to me than the hundreds of millions of years necessary to do a lifecycle of universe. Ehehehe. I won`t be there to see it go through anyway. ;0)
Whew ! Long post ! Pause ! `Til next time ! =0)