RE: What are your thoughts on Richard Dawkins?
March 28, 2017 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2017 at 6:22 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 28, 2017 at 9:31 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: [...] I find mindfulness very unhelpful and pseudo-scientific [...]
What is "pseudoscientific" about separating oneself from one's emotions in order to approach them more objectively? Be specific.
(March 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If you go to an exam and write nothing, it's a lot worse then having answers that are partially right and partially wrong.
This is simply god-of-the-gaps reworded, and is equally vapid.
If I can make up any answer and it's better than "I don't know", what have we done? Have we instigated a renewed effort to learn? Have we started looking at the issue from a different angle in the hopes of penetrating the mystery?
No. We've stifled learning in favor of a made-up story because in your mind, whether it's right or wrong counts less than having the damn blank on the paperwork filled out.
The mark of the incurious mind, the mark of the uninteresting thinker.
