Re: We didn't start the fire? was Re: Alignment and 4E


"Allen Wessels" <awessels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <EJmdndpYr_2R3MrVnZ2dnUVZ_sjinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Malachias Invictus" <invictusebay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Allen Wessels" <awessels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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While science probably could do some telling inquiry into this area, we
typically don't allow it to. :-)

That is a problem I would like to see remedied. Along those lines, I
feel
religion has in many ways stifled this sort of exploration.

I don't think this one is on religion's head.

I do. Drug prohibition is largely supported by religious moralists. Drug
prohibition is a strong reason why experiments with what are considered
"recreational drugs" are difficult to set up, especially for measuring such
ephemeral things as spiritual experiences.

We're very careful about the implications of research on humans,

....and we should continue to be.

even going so far as to shun the stuff the Nazis did in WWII.

Well, they did some nasty stuff.

--
^v^v^Malachias Invictus^v^v^

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the Master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.

from _Invictus_, by William Ernest Henley


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