Superstition!
Hi all,
What do you have to say about this?
"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother"
- Voltaire -
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BogMyrtle
(Does it really grow only in Scotland and Ireland?)
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Well, have to disagree with Voltaire there. No big difference between superstition and religion. Equating religion and astronomy is criminal.
And why would that be shaka?
"A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
And also don't forget:
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
- Galileo Galilei
- Galileo Galilei
And:
"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the foundation of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is inconceivable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom, as the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive form - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
The Paradox of Science and Religion:
"A bit beyond perception's reach, I sometimes believe I see,
that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key."
- Piet Hein
"A bit beyond perception's reach, I sometimes believe I see,
that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key."
- Piet Hein
"The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
"Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned."
- Loren Eiseley ("The Firmament of Time")
- Loren Eiseley ("The Firmament of Time")
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~ PSYKO ~
Many adherents of my religion have superstitions about the evil eye,they have become a part of our folklore..You wouldn't believe who uses them,kind of like a good luck charm..One our favourite ones is called a hamsa,it's not even a hebrew word..
Well, have to disagree with Voltaire there. No big difference between superstition and religion. Equating religion and astronomy is criminal.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen