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June 27, 2005 Dear Super Skeptic: Thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule to correspond with me. In your recent email you express the idea that I don't think the same way you do. The tone of your email suggests that you believe that your way of thinking is superior to mine. I would say that your intellectual stance is arrogant. Your attacks on my non-retentive, non-rational cognitive style remind me of those self-assured and self-righteous school boys who ridiculed me and teased me because of my eyesight handicap and my other handicaps. The truth is, I get "intuited" ideas by using my hands to manipulate a musical keyboard or some other instrument. In face-to-face conversations I often don't know what to say. This makes some people angry. Furthermore, I don't always think logically. This irritates some people as well. Because of my unusually handy nature, some people say I am "defective" and have a "disorder." That's focusing entirely on the negative. The truckloads of good music, songs, art works, and other creations show the positive side. The fact is many of my intuited ideas have proved to be good and true, but some do not test out. In 1971 at the age of 31, long before I understood myself better, I even believed that "God" was giving me ideas. The idea that I was being attended to and blessed by God gave me enough confidence to continue living. Too much negativity can kill. I needed a lift. Dear Super Skeptic: "God" may be a fiction, something like Mighty Mouse, but a good cartoonist can make "God" say funny things like "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy," and do impossible things, like change water into wine. A good cartoonist can entertain and educate a lot of people. Putting down the New Testament and moving on, perhaps even the "Pentateuch" is the work of a talented cartoonist. Furthermore, if laughter is the best medicine, then Jesus Christ, the Mighty Healer so many identify as "God," is certainly a Super Comedian. Funny talk illustrates The Christ's thought process, not rational argument. Remember, too, that a joker tricks you into expecting one thing and getting another. For example, the tricked tiger confidently walks the jungle trail to find the tethered lamb left alone there. Just before inflicting the lethal bite, the big cat falls through a deep pit trap onto a dozen upright spears. Poetically speaking, Jesus Christ kills the poor devil and saves sinners. From engineering to poetry, ingenious humans are clever tricksters. As they still say, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." And beware of e-mail attachments bearing Trojan Horses and other dangerous goods. When someone comes up to a super-skeptic and tries to prove "God" is real, the skeptic has had LOTS of practice playing this game. The super-intuitive may not have much experience in rational debate. The super-skeptic has had lots of experience in rational debate. But the super-intuitive mind is not rational and the super-intuitive mind ranges far from chessboards, checkerboards, and other arenas of combat. Just go for a walk and look around. If you visit many schools you will sometimes see a super-intuitive boy paying little or no attention to all the social games and the athletic games. It's easy to spot the super-intuitive students. Many of them do poorly in school. The reason why is because a super-intuitive child is super-conscious. The child's attention is often far beyond the confines of class. Dear Super Skeptic: In your email to me you argue that Srinivasa Ramanujan's visions of the goddess Namagiri were due to a neurological disorder. You argue that Ramanujan's mathematical genius worked DESPITE his visions. Yet Namagiri whispered equations into ramanujan's ear. The goddess TOLD Ramanujan what to write down. He calculated prodigiously, but the goddess dictated the actual mathematical formulas. This is why you're going to have a hard time proving your point to knowledgeable people. The savant calculator and super-intuitive Ramanujan couldn't prove his mathematical theorems. He was inept at logical argument. Many of Ramanujan's theorems have been proven wrong, and many of Ramanujan's theorems have been proven true for only a limited set of numbers. Many of Ramanujan's theorems have been proven universally true. Many of Ramanujan's theorems are still being examined. The man left so many theorems that gifted mathematicians are still working on them! Without a doubt Ramanujan was inspired. Your skepticism can't even begin to touch Ramanujan. He was more synthetic than analytical. You are more analytical than synthetic. That sums it up. Our antiquated culture is ruthless and callous. The strong are quick to disarm and disable the weak. When a powerful moneyed person becomes wise to this, the next step is to use all that power to help the intimidated children and adults reconstruct this deconstructed culture. One way to do this is to teach organic evolution. When students learn about organic evolution, they see evolution at work everywhere. For example, they see faster-growing trees shading out slower-growing trees. They see quick children beating slow children in games, in debates, and on class exams. They see little people delighting in competing with and beating other little people. All this slum-stun-gunnery is because for ages and ages evolution selected for the quick, the strong, and the well-coordinated. In the prehistoric ages the most unusual children were doomed. Humanity is still slow to advance up the ladder of organic evolution. Great civilizations gradually arose as certain unusual men taught the less brutish men how to work without needing to prove themselves able in the brutish ways. Today there are many specialties which employ such special persons. Further transformation to warless super-culture will happen more and more as the present civilizations progress to clear awareness. With clear awareness, schools and communities will move more rapidly into the safer and saner society of the long-prophesied and prayed-for era of harmonious human relations not based on money or sex. AQUARIUSThe Aquarian Center------------ About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and problem-solving. John has created art, music and songs, prose and poetry, and helped people solve a difficult problem. For more information, read: John's letters of recommendation: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/recommendations about John's self-healing and integration: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/index.html about John's independent research: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/index.html about John's seeking an agent or a publisher: http://www.writers.net/writers/39295 Email: blueguntwo@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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