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Psychotic Spooge, All Measured Out In Equally Proportioned Samples, Ready To Be Added To The Petri Dishes ... December 28, 2005
those silly scientists. always studying all these things with the misguided assumption that they will someday be able to understand and explain everything, ever. that one day the human race will be able to sit down with a binder full of all of the discoveries we've recorded since the beginning of science and understand life, the universe, and everything. (A: 42)
you know, i bet someday when science grows into the religion it seems to becoming right now, i bet that those future people will look back and decide that time, real time, began when human science came onto the scene. just like we did with the birth of that jesus guy, we're going to divide all time into Before Science and After Science. B.S and A. S.
no one seems to want to agree with me that science is a newborn religious sect. i can give you that science comes to it's truths via a different avenue than any of the previous belief systems that human beings have invented. and yet, think about how much faith so many of these "Facts" science presents us with actually require. and you have to accept them without question before you can progress to the next level of enlightenment. someone else has already done the footwork for you, there's no need to question or think too deeply into these sacred doctrines unless you're properly trained and indoctrinated by the right authorities. and you aren't, so don't bother, just accept them or risk ridicule. once, it was he who questioned the existence of God who was a fool. now, it is he who questions these scientifically proven facts that gets named a crackpot. the scientific study is the new Gospel. facts, data are the new universal truths despite the fact that these things are often so far removed from the real truth that they begin to look more and more like the enthusiastic spiritual treatises of old.
not that science isn't a good tool for it's part. i mean, hell, i have, for years, been on and off working towards a career in the arena of science, myself. it's hard to believe, i know. perhaps in the old days i would have sought a career in the church, but they seem to no longer be the ruling power in this society. what can i say? it's a good thing to have powerful friends.
it's not that i don't have faith in my beloved craft. my faith can perhaps be best described size-wise as resembling a mustard seed. according to some other prophet for some other religion, that's all i need to earn my ticket to a happy afterlife. haha.
i don't hate science. i hate people who allow their minds to become inflexible. who allow ideas, doctrines and these so called "facts" drawn from the always questionable data to become permenantly burned into the viewscreens of their minds so much so that, even a simple question inflames them into a righteous fury. they become emotionally attached to facts, data, statistics. they are determined that everything is defineable if they merely measure it enough. they can't bare to allow something go unexplained. they cannot appreciate a rock for it's rock-ness, a bird for it's bird-ness until they have dissected it to the very last molecule and, in the process, destroyed the very thing that made it what it was. every scientist knows that the process of measuring always skews results, even if only in an unimaginably small way. still, what's so wrong with occasionally watching the sun rise and not thinking about rotating balls of gas and rock speeding through the vast, cold loneliness of space at a specific number of miles per second? the religion of science seeks to eliminate the awe one can feel at letting the external world simply be, without question or measurement. what's so wrong with allowing things to exist on their own magic, their own beauty without having to dissect and desicrate them?
the church says awe of magic is evil, as is magic itself. no fortune telling, either, you sleezebag. no one but the almighty God is allowed to create matter, to breathe life into things. if replace "the church" and "God" with "science" in that last sentence you can see how similar the doctrines really are. only God or only science possesses the magic. both try for a monopoly on the magic of matter and life.
the only awe i am allowed to experience must be felt through the filter of the doctrine of whatever religion i buy into. as a scientist i cannot appreciate the bird until i have discovered, named, disected and then catalogued the behavior, migratory patterns of every species. if i were a bible thumper, instead, i wouldn't be allowed to appreciate this same bird until acknowledge how this god-dude went through all the trouble to make this creature from scratch.
what if i merely want to look up in the sky as the bird goes flying past me and decide that this is a pleasurable sight, a beautiful creature.
if science isn't a religion at heart, then why, just like all the other religions, does it try to rob me of the pleasure that can be had from just being whatever i am and enjoying other things as they are also just being whatever they are?
still, science can do wonderful things for us. for instance, science made it possible for you to be reading this drivel instead of doing something more productive. you COULD be making better use of your time by taunting old people, dumping boxes of nails on your neighbor's driveway, or even picking the scabs off your acne infested back.
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