tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9221230898567605964.post2706152455464622828..comments2022-09-24T22:35:12.709-07:00Comments on Psychedelia Gothique: LegaciesPsychedelia Gothique - Dale L. Sproulehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00221857064520306287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9221230898567605964.post-79599377831689604182016-03-08T13:00:38.318-08:002016-03-08T13:00:38.318-08:00Hey Syed. Thanks for the comment and the observati...Hey Syed. Thanks for the comment and the observations. I do think knowledge polarizes people. There's less doubt and more people are either religious or atheist. The biggest problem in my mind is that religions try to address new problems with old solutions. There may have been a time when we healed cancer with crabgrass and had faith it would work. (There also may have been a time when cancer didn't exist). Now, we have a much better picture of what works and what doesn't. Period. The old solution (faith) was the best weapon/salve/hope humanity once had against any adversary. Most of us didn't live long enough to die of natural causes. We knew it was the spear or arrow or poison that was killing us. Once hope was removed from the equation, faith was all that was left. Strangely, I think that knowledge is generating it's own faith - people who believe that science can solve all problems. And maybe, if we could harness and fully access it - it would. Maybe that's God's ultimate gift. Or not. I worry that the more dependent we get on technology - the more we pour all of our knowledge into it, the more vulnerable we'll be in when the system breaks down. Any of us who are still human (at least those who believe only in science) will be well and truly orphaned. By that point, we may be so dependent on technology we won't even be able to read anymore. We'll be back to the original state, where faith is all we have. And any of us who have become more than human - well, we can't even comprehend what might happen to them. They might die off in the collapse or they might not. And since we'll probably lose our ability to communicate with one another, we'll likely never know. So as long as we are still human - faith may be our last, best option. Psychedelia Gothique - Dale L. Sproulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221857064520306287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9221230898567605964.post-34254569535111991972016-02-25T19:43:40.555-08:002016-02-25T19:43:40.555-08:00Hay Dale, So I found this blog (your post lead me ...Hay Dale, So I found this blog (your post lead me to it - no real effort of my own) and glad to see that you have returned to your roots - writing. As I got to reading it I first surmised it to be a critique of the movie but kept with it and got really sucked into it. Thought provoking and stimulating. I felt a flood of questions run a muck. In response to your ref. about bible I would say that the followers of other two religions are in a bit of bind too, more knowledge tend to peel off the shrouds of mystery and mystique it is also giving rise to diminishing of faith. Spirituality and faith, where once in my mind were synonymous seems to be appeared wedged by knowledge. I really loved the last two paragraphs I think if we ever achieved the state of total awareness we will lose our humanity which is threaded in our nature with folly.Syednoreply@blogger.com