Bible thumpers, old and newuaker, Catholic,

[malignd at aol.com]

<<big angels appearing over a battlefield in, what was it, WWI or WWII? 
  and mentioned in GR - subjective reality shared by enough people that 
for somebody who wasn't there to define an objective reality that 
doesn't validate the experience of those present involves a value 
judgement I'm not prepared to make...  just the very names, Ouspensky & 
Blavatsky...give me a
Zippy-the-Pinhead type of rapture like Blake, they created systems, 
possibly self-consistent (and therefore, by Goedel, not all-inclusive, 
or vice versa) -- and possibly, given lexical imprecision, able to be 
mapped to each other and even to other either partial or inconsistent 
(or both) maps purporting to "explain it all", such as the Bible, the 
scientific method (one of the best, but not completely immune to 
misapplication) or postmodernism...>> and much more.

Doesn't it strike you that if "big angels" appeared over a battlefield 
it would be one of the momentous moments in human history?  And yet you 
don't know even which war it was in which it supposedly occurred.  That 
should tell you something about the credibility of the incident.  I, 
for one, never heard of it, but that might be because I don't read the 
right books.

Madame Blavatsky was a fraud.  Ouspensky was an obvious crackpot; or, 
to be more fair, he was one of a number of people who became enamored 
of the silly, pseudo-scientific system of Gurdjieff.  Today it would be 
intelligent design.  And mentioning the calculus or Kurt Goedel or 
Newton in among these people, or with the Rosicrucians, or as in some 
way comparable to the the "wisdom" of the Urantia book ...  Newton may 
have found the book of Revelation worthy of study, but that says 
nothing other than Newton was one of the great minds of western culture 
who happened also to be interested in the book of Revelation.  It 
doesn't make Revelations less ridiculous as other than overblown poetry.

<<and speaking of evolution, the concept of Evolution merges with the 
Kabalistic Angel known as Metatron ...>>

Well that may or may not be true, but it would certainly have come as 
news to Darwin.



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