{"quotes":[{"text":"With or without 'college' we are able to use our senses by perceiving the world around us, that in turn shapes and creates ones own reality. Perception is reality. My 'reality' is not the same as your 'reality' since we all have a different mental database, life experience, physiology, different characteristics, environments we grew up and people we hang out with, etc. I might fall in love with a certain smell while it triggers bad memories for someone else. Same goes for the other senses while perceiving 'reality'. And how real is this so called 'reality' anyway? Our senses can be quite limited compared to a camera or other living creatures on the planet. There are sounds and colours humans can not detect with their senses. We in fact do not perceive the whole 'picture'. The most important things in life are unseen. My point is that we do not need hierarchic, indoctrinating, and capitalized institution called 'science' to tell us what, when, why, and how to think, experiment, sense, and live our lives. Long before there was any 'science', there was sense first.","author":"Nadja Sam","tags":["education","education-system","freedom-of-thought","institution","life","perception","perception-of-reality","reality","science","scientism","senses"],"id":7378,"author_id":"Nadja+Sam"},{"text":"Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in material events and proceed to deny that these things exist in living things, including themselves. Because consciousness does not fit into their mechanistic schemes they declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree—trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all. This is a far more respectful and generous attitude than that of religions, most of whom won't even give animals a soul.","author":"Peter J. Carroll","tags":["consciousness","magick","religion","religion-vs-science","scientific-materialism","scientism"],"id":36464,"author_id":"Peter+J.+Carroll"},{"text":"If asked, ‘Do you believe in ghosts or the supernatural?’, I can only answer somewhat as follows. I do believe in another world which penetrates this, and that, as Milton so aptly puts it, ‘Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth/Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep’, I deplore the false Cartesian split as a dreadful blow to the human mind. To me, the world of imagination, which works by means of analogy, is as real, in its own particular way, as the everyday external world. To me, the myths are vital truths, the gods and goddesses still live, on that mighty archetypal plane which lies beyond our little selves and yet within our being, too. Now this may appear illogical, a tangled web of contradictions. To believe in every spiritual truth, in all religions and all creeds, to revere a single God and the many? This may disturb the theologian, but not the Mystic. For, to the mystical turn of mind, the One may become the Many, the Many One. Spiritual and poetic truth—the transcendental vision, that is—encompasses both reason and ethics, yet soars above them.","author":"Harvey Peter Sucksmith","tags":["faith","scientism","supernatural"],"id":110915,"author_id":"Harvey+Peter+Sucksmith"},{"text":"This belief, that science eradicates (the need for) God, is a myth many people believe today. The truth is that science, the study of the world and collection of our findings, has not and cannot disprove God. There is no scientific journal that has disproven God’s existence. This is because God cannot be put in a test tube and either verified or falsified. God is a spiritual being and is outside the reach of empirical scientific research. Christians cannot prove God the existence of God with absolute certainty, nor can atheists disprove his existence with any certainty. That does not mean that we cannot look at the evidence as to whether or not God exists.","author":"Jon Morrison","tags":["apologetics","christianity","christianity-and-science","evidence-for-god","existence-of-god","god","meaning","prove-god","science","scientism","worldview"],"id":144586,"author_id":"Jon+Morrison"},{"text":"An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["progress","rationalism","scientism"],"id":207044,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.","author":"David Bentley Hart","tags":["metaphysics","philosophy","science","scientism"],"id":210076,"author_id":"David+Bentley+Hart"},{"text":"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["dogmatism","science","scientism","wonder"],"id":267382,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","anti-theism","apologetics","atheism","facts","false-knowledge","ignorance","knowledge","logic","militant-atheism","philosophy","pollution","pseudo-science","pseudoscience","reason","religion","science","scientific-method","scientism","theism","theology"],"id":359505,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition. In his laboratory he hopes to reconstitute the set of conditions, however complex they may be, which, once they are fully reconstituted, cannot fail to give rise to the phenomenon he is after, life. In other words he seeks to start off a mechanically fated chain-reaction; and of course, in enumerating the conditions that have made it possible for him to manufacture his phenomenon he systematically discounts the huge mental toils, the plodding, methodical research, of himself and others.Thus, by a singular contradiction, he succeeds in convincing himself and, of course, attempts to persuade others, that he has arrived at the origin of his phenomenon; he sets out to demonstrate that everything in the universe runs perfectly smoothly by itself, without any creative power at anytime intruding.","author":"Gabriel Marcel","tags":["existence","life","scientism"],"id":362932,"author_id":"Gabriel+Marcel"},{"text":"The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.","author":"Jürgen Habermas","tags":["common-sense","human-nature","philosophy","science","scientism"],"id":370644,"author_id":"J%C3%BCrgen+Habermas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}