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Jäsen: Dickison

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Tietoja minusta My prime motivation is trying to understand the nature of reality. What is all this I perceive around me? What is the nature of space, time, consciousness? What is the nature of our spiritual inclinations? Is there a soul?

As a result of these questions I am interested in science in general and physics in particular in addition to mythology and the paranormal. I tend to be an eclectic quester and paradigm buster.

Arthur C. Clarke's three laws hint at the nature of my views and interests:

Clarke's First Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

Clarke's Second Law: "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Or, as Isaac Asimov said "..in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong."

The reason for the interest in the paranormal, as Clarke's Laws hint at, is that I feel that that is where the current paradigms fall apart and can be reconstructed with better understanding, that is if any of it is more than delusion/confusion. And, paradoxically, there's too much there to be nothing, but frustratingly, not enough there to be something. Or so it seems...

I am interested in the nature of religion, not that I believe any of it, but that it shows up throughout our history seems to indicate there is something to it; whether it is subjective or objective is yet to be determined.

I desire to gather as many explanations for events as possible and have an intuition that there may be great value hidden within things that society has thrown away. I search for understanding by looking for alternative interpretations of everything I think I know and find.

I tend to believe those who are seeking the truth but doubt those who find it. I am a pyrrhonist. I am still learning.

Tietoja kirjastostani "Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book."

--Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured

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Oikea nimiRichard Dickison

SijaintiKapolei, Hawaii

SähköpostiosoiteDickison.RichardGMail.com

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RekisteröitymispäiväNov 27, 2005