"Arthur Brain" <arthur_brain1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> dolf wrote:
>> Using the GRAPPLE memeBrain to analyze the truth content of
>> politician's public statements.
>>
>> The html do***ent titled memeBrain which is located at the following
>> URL http://www.sybilline.bigpondhosting.com/memeBrain.html
is a
>> prototype javascript applet which analyses speech is the result of my
>> current research in metempirical philosophy and natural theology:
>
> Many people are *just* bright enough to discover that what counts in
> this phony world is merely the ability to *sound* bright.
>
> It is easier, they soon learn, to sound bright in some subjects than
> others.
>
> It is, for instance, just about impossible to sound bright in
> mathematics or thephysical sciences without *actually being* bright.
> The facts, observations and theories are too well established.
> There is a firm consensus and you have to know a great deal about that
> consensus before you can *sound* bright, and for that you have to *be*
> bright.
>
> The consensus is shakier in the social sciences; still shakier in the
> humanities; and in matters such as eastern mystical cults there is no
> consensus at all.
>
> Someone who spouts nonsense in chemistry will be caught at once by any
> high-school student who knows something about chemistry.
> Someone who spouts nonsensical literary criticism, however, can be
> spotted only with difficulty.
> As for Mysticism, HAH! Your bluff in this field can never be called,
> because it is inherently nonsensical, un-testable, un-observable, and
> non-consensual.
>
> Mysticism is for people who cannot demonstrate intelligence and
> intellectual rigour in a field where that intelligence can be
> evidenced and that rigour tested.
>
> Mysticism is for mindless dolts. And lunatics.
>
True, but remember it is also the natural state of the human mind. For
good and bad.
It is also the foundation of Imagination. Without a mystic belief you
would have no Shakespeare to think..." can I compare thee to a summers day
" ... Rational thought doesn't produce beauty in imagination. Nor would
there have been music from the mind of Mozart if he thought Rationally.
Life without mystical foundation is bleak.
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