From: Joseph Maurer (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 18:12:46 GMT
Hi gav, well said! good luck!
Joe
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From: "gav" <gav_gc@yahoo.com.au>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:18 AM
Subject: MD looking at evolution
> bonjour froggies!
> tis been a good while since i last checked in...hope
> youse are all well.
> some points that may be of interest.
>
> 1. evolutionary theory is of some importance with
> respect to pirsigean metaphysics..yes? well we had
> better tidy that theory up then cos at the moment it
> sux.
>
> 1.1 why? cos it doesn't add up, literally. if genetic
> mutation is the source of the raw material for natural
> selection to act upon then we wouldn't be here:
> simple. the rate of genetic mutation and the
> deleterious or neutral value of the great majority of
> these mutations means that evolution would not
> progress anywhere near fast enough to account for the
> diversity and sophistication of life. basically we are
> looking at many orders of magnitude of error here.
> orthodox darwinian theory is obviously wrong. this
> point has been made much better than i have tried by
> sir fred hoyle in 'the intelligent universe'.
>
> 1.2 so if genetic mutation is not the (main) source of
> novel genetic material what is? the most likely
> candidates are *whole genes*, with accompanying
> instruction codes for assimilation into an organism's
> genotype...ie viruses.
>
> 1.2.1 viruses are essentially genes. they can survive
> interstellar travel and they are continually raining
> down upon us from space. our immune systems eliminate
> those that are potentially harmful or irrelevant,
> admitting those that have evolutionary potential.
>
> 1.3 the microbial world (bacteria can also alter
> genotypes through plasmids - usually circular dna
> segments that can enter cells), when seen from this
> perspective, becomes our indispensable evolutionary
> ally. but the microbial world is more commonly
> connotated negatively....why?
>
> 2. why has the microbial world been demonized by
> mainstream science? for that matter why have faulty
> evolutionary concepts been promulgated by mainstream
> science. and why has mainstream philosophy run into a
> cul-de sac?
>
> 2.1 why? again the answer (i think) is basically a
> matter of maths- probability. the catalogue of wrong
> turns, faulty reasoning, omissions etc suggests that
> human intellectual evolution has been *actively
> rather than accidentally impeded*
>
> 2.1.1
> not convinced? well then why did people like newton, a
> memeber of the mystical rosicrucian society,
> promulgate a worldview directly at odds with the
> wordlview he and other intellectual luminaries adhered
> to in private? why was wilhelm reich, orginator of
> orgone energy (the chi of the planet) theory and
> devices to capture this energy murdered in the usa?
> why has the work of tesla and schoenberg been ignored?
> and why were 14 million natural philosophers murdered
> in europe. yes, the witches. and why is pirsig's
> metaphysics finding active opposition in philosophy
> circles?
>
> 2.2.
> ok i could go on but i won't...you guys can check it
> out if you wish. the point i am trying to make is that
> i used to believe that our culture's intellectual
> misadventures were accidental. now i believe that the
> development of human consiousness has been
> *deliberately stunted and misdirected for millenia*
>
> 3. okay then last point: by whom/what and what does it
> all mean......hmmmmmmmm
> well then that's a big one. let's just say that the
> most powerful in the world have tried to stop the
> dissemination of key information (science, history,
> astrology, magic) for millenia. this is why the
> libraries at alexandria and constantinople were burned
> (after key books were taken away, to rome probably).
> in turn the powerful have helped promulgate a
> mechanical materialistic soulless view of reality. one
> very interesting thing is that these most powerful
> people are very small in number and are usually quite
> closely related. for instance, bush and kerry are
> related, bush is related to the windsors, so is
> clinton. prince charles is a direct descendant of
> vlad the impaler. 34 american presidents are direct
> descendants of charlemagne, emperor of europe. you can
> check all this at genealogy.com.
> so what does this mean? well for thousands of years
> the vast bulk of humanity has been used, manipulated,
> terrorized..kept in a state of confusion and fear. all
> facets of our society are touched by this dark hand:
> education (makes you stupid), medicine (makes you
> ill), charities (help the rich), government (opposes
> the people) etc etc. the orwellian nature of our
> reality is not difficult to see. fortunately nearly
> all of this is kinda irrelevant because the individual
> has to participate in this oppressive version of
> reality for the control to work: ie unplug from the
> 'matrix' and you become free, again.
> anyway i will shut up now before i dissapear up my own
> arse...you guys probably now all this anyway
> hasta luego
> gav
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