reply to post by Hollywood11
"What I said is that it is the only good part of computers, and it's the essense of computers."
Then I challenge you to sequence a base pair of DNA on this "essence" of computers. The "ancients" didn't "know better" than to use computers
and science - because they had no concept of them. To know better, they would have had to have known about them in the first place. There is NO
evidence ANYWHERE that they had ANY sort of advanced knowledge or technology comparable to the computers we have today.
"It may be possible that a drug caused a #ty life of suffering or boredom to be prolonged for a while, but what it really does is cause lives to be
warped, changed, become something degenerated or lesser."
Then I invite you to visit a nursing home or hospital and lead a campaign of euthenation too free those poor warped, bored, degerated souls of their
misery. Lets see how far you get with that.
Life Expectancy around the
world
Look at the above map. Note which countries have the longest lifespans, and which the shortest. Think you can spot the countries which rely on modern
medicine?
"I don't think I know anyone who would die because they didn't take drugs."
Apparently you've never met a diabetic.
"The benefit does not outweigh the drawbacks when it comes to modern science."
Tell that to anyone who's ever relied on the Haber process to provide them the food they eat. I'm sure it won't be that hard, there's only a few
billion of them.
"It seems you would deny ancient wisdom to your dying day due to a scientific worldview"
I can't speak for him, but yes. I would much prefer my scientific first world near paradise compared to a midevel bronze-age life of toil and
suffering. "Ancient Knowledge" is just that - ancient. It was replaced by new ways of thinking and newly discovered knowledge because it produced
better results.
Oh those foolish Iron Age simpletons who neglected the wisdom of their Stone Age ancestors!
"Here watch this, they had computers over 2000 years ago, to navigate ships"
Ok. Go sailing and use that to navigate. I'll get a boat too, but I'll use GPS navigation, detailed satellite maps, and radio communications to warn
of storms. We'll see who gets to the destination first. Oh, and watch out for those wacky sea monsters which populate your maps.
"It's not about finding great new technology for people's conveniece, better tv's, better computers, new drugs."
If you think scientists get rich from their research, then you are sadly mistaken. It is about exploration, discovery, and making people's lives
better. But knowledge is inert. It can be used for both good and evil purposes. For both free exchange, and for commercialism. Knowledge, and science,
just is.
"Science is run by people who have never undergone an NDE"
From your insistence on NDE's, I'm going to go out on a limb and suppose that you had one yourself. You might want to go in for an MRI sometime to
make sure there wasn't any permanent damage to your brain.
"Science can do nothing about people's hearts. Science cannot stomp out selfishness and corruption. What can? Only the Golden Rule, the NEW
commandment given by Jesus Christ can save the world."
We've had 2,000 years of Jesus's "Golden Rule", much of it being well before modern science. It hasn't helped. Maybe it just needs another 2,000
years?
"Everything is born of Yin and Yang, no matter how complex an equation, everything falls under Yin and Yang first."
Explain Yin and Yang's role in Pi, please.
"No. Anything that exists today has existed in the past or been concieved of in the past."
You mean like plastics? (Rubber and plastic aren't the same thing, btw)
"No technology like today since 10,500 BC, then 12,000 years later it comes back"
lol wut?