(September 17, 2014 at 2:08 pm)Exian Wrote: You're right Tonus. There really isn't anything particularly profound about what I said in my post, especially if you're already familiar with affirmations or meditation. However; it was a profound experience for me personally to realize I could welcome back that part of myself. I missed it without knowing I was missing it.I found it in a different way, but it had the same beneficial effect. Learning that I can improve myself without having to sit back and hope that god waves a magic wand was (and remains) very empowering. I cringe at the thought that I left so much of my fate in the hands of something that isn't there, when I had some pretty powerful tools within reach.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
