Science Is As Science Does...

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Science is most misconstrued, 

so misused with such attitude. 

A useful tool within one's belt, 

a wealth of uses we've all felt, 

but dote upon its cloying ways: 

too soon we are as drones and slaves 

to wallow in its easy vices, 

suspect fixes—"new" devices.

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Science is then too respected; 

"inadequacies" go unprotested... 

Who sprints before they learn to walk; 

who mumbles where we must have talk? 

"Scientistics" snaps proud fingers, 

still, less than subtle fear must linger... 

we could lose what we have gained 

if what propels us? Proves our shame!

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Smirking laughter fills the halls 

at "feeding troughs" where *science* lolls 

in languid lunches with  "mal-skeptics"... 

thinking's somewhat less eclectic. 

Focused on their *bigger* picture, 

call it their "investment's" stricture, 

they must toe the *party* line 

or lose their funding—jobs—one finds.

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See, science is not science-driven!

Science is a corporate midden!

Science serves the capitalist.

Without his "interest," it can't exist! 

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Well... ...screw those bastards! They're devolved! 

They abdicate their honor! Solved! 

These pretend that they're equipped 

to take a step I feel they'll miss... 

...so make us leap a needless hurdle, 

hobbling more sincere proposals!

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...Consider Tesla, what a find—

a "Moses" for Electric-kind! 

They sure sensed where HE was headed, 

"dried him up"... ...Science HEAPED discredit!  

...And this despite the grandest gift 

as one could think of... imagine it!  

...Power snatched from thinnest air; 

we could be as gods, mon frère!

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See? Being right's no guarantee. 

We shall not HAVE what sets us free! 

...Velikovsky's explanation, 

good support and gave citation—

he wrote a book so roundly panned 

it begs another look, by damn!

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Sitchin makes the ancients real 

and what they wrote's the real deal! 

They had knowledge, far exceeding,

what's copped to in our schools, we're reading.

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Why, consider temples strongly made, 

but ruined in *disasters*—razed!  

First? Built to face a rising Sol... 

...upon its solstice one is told... 

a line configured for encryptions, 

strange conjunctions, and eclipses! 

They knew their seasons—knew a year—

divided by their days of fear!

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A number of "the circle" WAS ... 

nine times forty—works it does! 

All the numbers (apart from seven) 

turn three sixty 'round the heavens! 

They weren't stupid, knew their stuff—

why: to make damned sure they'd food enough!

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Here's the point, and listen closely, 

the temples are rebuilt—some, mostly! 

Still not stupid, they display

that temple turned... degrees away!

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The sun has moved (?), and turned right back (!); 

as if come up in some other track!  

The Sun's inconstant; is that true?  

How's that get passed a peer review?

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Temples moved to follow suns 

in shifting solar dances FROM... 

locations they had held for years—

though when Suns moved... it kindled fear!

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Kingdoms were reduced in thunder... 

populations quaked at wonders... 

Earth and Mars indeed contrived... 

to meet in space and coincide?!

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Folks would think they'd seared their souls!  

Despite their sacrifice, God scolds!  

God "moved," in turn, "the sun around," 

e'en "stopped it dead" as one had found!  

The reader knows the sun's unmoved; 

the supposition's Earth was moved...

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Science's shocked, and then dismisses... 

sundials that don't work... as *misses*—

errors that our elders made, 

in ignorance that they'd put paid. 

A year, in days, three sixty-five 

(a quarter, change, to keep it right?). 

That's the way it's "always been" (!), 

and any more's a "drooling grin"?

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Science smirks so glowingly, 

like they've the answers, knowingly—

like we can TRUST those "at the trough" 

to tell us when "enough's enough":

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"Scientists are... just not Science" 

these pretend their self-reliance. 

"Science is a path we use 

to keep the facts for firm review. 

Thesis and antithesis—

we test these out for synthesis."

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That becomes a brand new "posit" 

searching for its opposite. 

This is found and onward bound—

repeated, scored , and checked... found "sound." 

Continued to some far refrain, 

we'd hope some meager TRUTH remains!

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You think that I confuse these two? 

You think it's me who misconstrues? 

But no, good friend—and just BECAUSE 

it's science IS as science DOES, 

that we will stay down on our knees, 

to hide the skies, and NOT be free!

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You just mouth an old refrain,

a cloak you wear to hide the stain. 

These are just mere words to you—

to "stonewall's" what you really do!

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You can't search the scary skies 

without assumptions you've contrived 

to keep on feeding at a trough 

that keeps you down and clueless—lost. 

You can't mean your snide derision, 

blame it on the imposition 

of our leaders, un-elected, 

who remain so... undetected.

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Who is hidden? Who betrays? 

What grand secret haunts our days?

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What will all our futures bring? 

Gracious bounty?  ...Or, slaps and stings?

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www.AlienView.net

Main-streamer lapdog Dr. Gary Posner, an MD, is a go-to guy for soporific platitudes salving threatened if contrived sensibilities. Additionally, he is the less than intrepid, imagination-less, numbingly tedious, and wholly uninspiring "cult leader" of the Tampa Bay Skeptics. Dr. Posner writes the following in "Faulty Sense of Reality", published in "Skeptical Inquirer" (so immediately suspect), 3(2), p. 79"...

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[Believers in the paranormal may be] afflicted with a thought disorder that manifests in... a faulty sense of reality... [their] irrational behavior... may be more compatible with a diagnosis of ambulatory schizophrenia... than with mere naivete.

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...Less stealthily nasty than when you bang all the hot-points together, eh? The nastiness, contrarily, comes out plain. ...But Posner's patronizing bit, tapping-out-the-comfy-pipe on a rugged shoe heel lugubriousness... is handily, if less visibly, debunked itself.  To wit: One Brian Zeiler writes;

So, once again, we see the basic pseudoscientific line of argumentation of the "skeptics": instead of addressing the claims with the specificity demanded of the scientific method and the protocols of logical debate, Posner chooses to assert that his opponents suffer from a pathological medical condition, a bold claim for which Posner apparently has no burden of proof. Posner, a self-styled "skeptic" forgets that in science, criticisms of claims must be specific, not vague attacks—much less vague attacks on mental stability.

Posner, like most "skeptics," will cloak the shocking irrationality of his amazingly pseudoscientific claim in the holy robes of "science," thus lending a false sense of scientific legitimacy to an approach more consistent with witch hunts and crowd madness than with the scientific methodology which he ironically claims to defend. In reality, he only denigrates that which he purports to promote.

Thank you, Posner, for illustrating the essence of "skepticism" in a way that is highly effective in discrediting any sense of objectivity and scientific rationality that you might have hoped to enjoy. Of course, your fellow skeptic cult members will simply laugh and congratulate you, but that's only to be expected.

How did the scientific community morally deteriorate to such a level where base instinct overrides the logical faculties? Posner's comments are the antithesis of scientific methodology and logical debate, yet CSI[COP] promotes such intolerable, fanatical viewpoints nevertheless, all while cloaking their zealous agenda of dogmatic fascism in the ruse of objective science.

—Brian Zeiler

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Not all THAT overstated, eh? Spot effin' on, actually! …And so it goes as one wonders what a scientist really is.  Just another "Priest" of a new kind of fundamentalism... or gravid psychopath not personally responsible for aggregate acts, consequences, and activities?  Do I repeat myself, I wonder.

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See, it's not science. That's just a cloak some use.  Consider, "Science" would not remotely exist but for the jealously anxious practitioners of it.  Those persons with huge confidence and no conscience—all hubris sans the remotest humility.  The cruel wage of that hubris sans the remotest humility: Atomic bombs and Frankenfoods, just to start... Dr. Mengele was a scientist of the first water...

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Sincerely, as I wrote above, science is as science does. Indeed, without the humanity officiating it, there is no science... which is after all a human invention, an idea wielded by humans for their own purposes facilitating self-interested ends.

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Viewed from alienation: science is, at worst, an arguable ill, ill-wielded for ill? At best: too sure of itself? Too convinced that it be the default instrument of consideration even upon that which it refuses to remotely consider? Sir and madam!  There is your lunacy and, ironically, not in the "woo crowd," eh?

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Consider, used in an identical manner, a hammer can be a building tool and a murder weapon. But it's still a hammer. Given circumstance, what's the saner use?  ...Rather slides around, that does... dunnit!

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Speaking of being hammered: what's new in John Ford's miserably unjust existence... I've heard disturbing rumors I've not been able to qualify. Any news is appreciated.  Mr. Richard Smith, over to you?

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Restore John Ford!

Ignorance Is Unblissful

Ignorance Is Unblissful

by Alfred Lehmberg

Ignorance was, is, and will ever be... unblissful. Full stop.

Is ignorance ever bliss? No.

Sincerely, reject "blissful ignorance" because it does not work, it does
not respect you, and it seems to prove, invariably, that it's only a mechanism for the control of your energies and your efforts on projects or activities that you, a result of design, are not well informed about... and by someone apart and unconcerned with you, citizen: an object they can only see as a mark or a dupe. 

Seriously, to let an individual go blithely along in an ignorance that suits the manipulator and not the individual... is to communicate an ongoing lie and is a trammeling of all ethics! You are being lied to if others know better, and don't tell you. That's a lie by omission, not informed consent. That is duplicity and obfuscation and I would be expected to be jailed or otherwise discredited if it was me engaged in that behavior...

Verily! Has it not ever been pompously intoned that "It is folly to be wise when ignorance is bliss"? ...But, you see, that old proverb makes an assumption that continued ignorance equals continued bliss, and this is just not the case. 

Ignorance, from my experience, can be bliss... but, only for the shortest of short terms... so, valueless! In the real world there is always a premium paid for ignorance, and that bill must eventually come due. 

In the real world, ignorance equals loss, injustice, sickness, and failure... abject failure... failure to grow, failure to achieve, and failure to make meaningful progress! Truly, as we have been advised by giants... the only life worth living is the examined one! The conclusion? Ignorant bliss is a tragic booby-trap where the individual concerned is unaware that his primrose path is a minefield!

Ignorance... it's never served THIS aging citizen. There has only ever been error and loss with its inclusion, even tragedy, reader, resulting from the "ignorances" tolerated that we'll shortly regard. Willful ignorance? Twice as bad. There's a lot of that about now... 

Anyway, no one was ever served by their ignorance, only betrayed and left out, short-changed and short-sheeted. ...Sure, not knowing the asteroid was going to hit until it did may seem fine on its face, but what was that, really, but a missed opportunity to set some things right, howsoever futilely, before you passed? 

It was time you could have had, denied... Time to do something "important"... something that you could have done. ...Hell, tell the wife you love her one more time... or buy that pack of cigarettes you've been craving for a decade... how blissful would any of that be at our asteroidal passing?

To the chase, at last? Well, gird loins! 

Last century, I was at best ambivalent (...when I wasn't hostile!) to gays, on the whole, and the whole transgender-smear-of-one's-sexual-identity issue. "Gayness" was aberrant poppycock, I'd viscerally (if baselessly) felt... completely ignorant on the issues. 

No. It was "choice,"* it was socially "proscribed," it was "threatening," it was "wrong..." I was so sure... my respected Dad was havin' none of it, and an adored Grandad, a high school principal (In 1950s Texas!), was of a mind and once observed to me that homosexuality had been key in destroyed Rome (...nothing about the purposeful corruption of the middle class by the upper class perpetrated with a series of psychotic barracks emperors...)!

Why, I even thought it might be a good idea to burn books defending homosexuality! ...And that was actually the beginning bit of a turning point for me. I'd had some education on the history of book burning and book burners. Book burners have NEVER come out on the correct side of issues in contention, in fact, they have ever held us back as a species, even, when Alexandria and some razed Moslem libraries are recalled and considered...

I recall "thinking," ...buffered by erroneous societal conventions (example: every "gay" guy in a film was a bad guy?)..." How can a real guy be attracted to another guy where women are available to them? I'd called that "reasoned." 

Oh, and by the way, it was ok with girls together... that was fine [wink-wink nudge-nudge]... highly desirable if on the sly... and still "wrong." That hypocrisy went wholly unrecognized.

...But still, I'd "wondered," how could a woman genuinely prefer another woman to a man?! It must be a pathology or an aberrational mental sickness... I'd rationalized all this, wholly unaware of any of the facts on the issue. One can be reminded of the toxic phrase "Your body, my choice," at this point... that's where all the aforementioned goes...

...Yeah, the gays would be cat-called and terrorized, beat up—killed even! That was terrible, but hey... they kinda brought it on themselves for making their "nastiness" public... right? ...And it "remained"... that it was kind of an affront to "decency," right? Consider, you don't want the kids to see it, right? They'd ask questions... ...right?!

...But I aspired to ongoing education, too, one real in the real world! I wanted to be able to provide sound citations for my bigotry, logical "justifications" for my prejudice... legitimate "reasons" for my chauvinism. ...I'd performed a similar exercise with Jews... wanted to justify my low-grade antisemitism. That would blow up in my face, too. Truly, I really should have learned my lesson, then... this was exposure to cosmic truths! I wished I'd taken the lesson better. To wit?

"Always be prepared to have everything you "know" found to be entirely wrong, wrong-minded, and wrong-hearted! One must be prepared to have their "convictions" challenged, always. Be prepared, always, to change to that necessary course, one more sentient and constructive, but endeavor to adapt to and to overcome... always? Your ignorance? 

Cut to that chase aforementioned: biology, anthropology, psychology, history, and record of performance, cogent primary histories, personal associations, and science, anatomy and genetics... albeit! This is an essay map of certifications.

Come to find? Well, the short version is that homosexuality (or alternative sexuality) is an organic hard wire psychologically damaging to change... arbitrarily... just like the downsides incurred as a result of criminalizing eye color or handedness... skin color? It's the way things are, that's what was revealed to me! 

Moreover? It is something not remotely countered by wholly unsupportable religious concerns, as uninformed as they are (and have been!) hypocritical... grinders of superstitious axes as narrow-minded as they are unreasonable! Now?

Ignorance! Rejected out of hand as a counter to sense, sensibility, and a sensible society of efficaciousness, efficiency, and enlightened elevation, boy howdy! That's the read from an unbiased social science of many decades, cited and peer-reviewed, earnest professionals trying to get the issues RIGHT and correct... ...'K? ...'K.

Gay is OK, was the Gestalt conclusion! Good persons swell their ranks even as good persons complement the ranks of others in the "Queer" category, who also have entirely natural orientations and preferences. Pedophilia? We don't fuck our kids because they are justifiably adjudged as being unable to give informed consent to sexual activity. We'll move on.

I opted for the rainbow-colored picture to show solidarity with a needed sea change, not be on a bandwagon. There is much to be singular and original about, showing solidarity with this cultural change from a sexually bigoted society to one unbigoted is for the good, is the feeling of this writer, and may he remain to be one with them, still.

Any other view on the biological smear of life's very fluid "sexuality expression" is as uninformed as it is deconstructive and as insultingly Pharisaic as it is corrosively toxic. Dangerously... willfully uninformed. ...Needlessly divisive. So, evil, even. That's not a bridge too far.

Clearly... people are not perceiving the need to stay off one another's asses, more. Verily! We must reject the popular impetus to embrace our exterior AND baseless divisivenesses... and reject any uncalled-for demand that we BE unnecessarily divided! That seems good societal sense!

We are some 350 million souls living in one monstrously complex society! The administration of that society requires talent and expertise which the new fascist right has not paid off on, in the manner that they have promised, for decades! The only faction paying off for the people (in an economy that is the envy of the world!) is the left. 

What else is the left telling us? Well, topping the list? Authoritarian fascism must be as detested as it is resisted, and as resented as it is reviled. Second? Stay off your neighbor's ass for baseless bupkis!

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...But what of the offense, the shock, and the shame throwing off and discounting one's personal ignorance? Well, in the first place? It's not always offense, shock, and shame. In the second, there is, more often than not, joy beyond the shame, satisfaction beyond the shock, and fellowship, good reader, beyond the offense. 

Whatever the outcome? Personal growth was had, and as we all know, when you stop growing you start dying. 

Closing, I'm sure glad I was able to clear up some of my own ignorant rubbish before that aforementioned asteroid hit... though, let's face it. We've all our own personal asteroids. Read on.

Remember!

*...You know what's a "choice"? Being willfully stupid... stupid against all cited evidence, real experience, and good sense.