Thoughts on Buddhism

[reverendjeremiah]

I was discussing spiritual ideas in the thread created to discuss said spiritual ideas. But if you'd rather not continue the discussion, that is fine with me.

And as far as science goes, there is a huge difference between developing theories based on previous knowledge and observed phenomena versus making up ideas out of thin air and attaching supernatural terms to them.

Oh please, give me a break.

String theorists had to invent unseen dimensions of space out of thin air in order to create their theories.

Scientists scientists do that sort of things all the time.

Look man, unless you have a degree in Quantum Mechanics then stop making shit up. Suggesting that scientists make shit up all the time...well...what little respect I might have had for you is completely lost now.

I grow tired of your lies and your ignorance.

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Considering possibilities doesn't necessarily mean that I wish for them to be true. It just means that I'm considering that they might be true.

Besides, don't scientists do a very similar thing?

Aren't String Theorists hopefully wishing that strings are real?

Aren't scientists currently hopefully wishing that the Higgs field is real?

What about supersymmetry , etc, etc, etc.

Science is always "wish-thinking" before things are confirmed.

And sometimes they don't get their wish.

At one time many scientists were wishing that the universe was finite and static. Too bad for them that Hubble discovered otherwise.

Many scientists wished that Newtonian absolute space and time could be maintained forever. Einstein pulled the rug out from under those wishes.

Science is really nothing more than a list of wishes that actually came true for certain scientists. We don't even bother keeping track of all the wishes that went down the proverbial toilet.

Its obvious that you have ZERO idea of what science is about. You build up a strawman of "Scientists make shit up" and then use it to excuse the fact that you are making shit up and to also make it seem as if your made up spirit bullshit is "just as scientific" as Quantum mechanics.

You are horribly ignorant to the scientific method.