Problems with this section; for Frank (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Friday, November 20, 2009, 00:19 (5272 days ago) @ Frank Paris


> I don't know what I'm doing wrong but my responses sometimes don't show up, and I haven't been saving my responses on my own machine. I gave you a long answer to this yesterday and now I can't find it. I did the same thing to another post you made that you also asked for more than once, and could not find my response and had to try to reconstruct it. -I had the same problem until I did two things. I held the submit button for seveal seconds, and items were published. Also I always go back to the forum to make sure it got there.--> "It doesn't open up any vistas for me, now that i have had a slight exposure."
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> A "slight exposure" isn't going to do it for you. You can't expect to penetrate into its depths by reading the superficial meanderings of dilettantes like myself on these fragmentary forums. Sometimes I wonder why I take them at all seriously, since nothing is ever resolved on them. I think people think they're going to find easy answers to the most difficult questions ever posed by the mind of man. Sheer fantasy and wishful thinking. You won't get anywhere unless you're willing to do the hard work of going to the original sources and studying them deeply. The superficial passes at these ideas on these forums are almost entirely a waste of time, yet I constantly find myself being sucked into them. The Web is a disease. I even read about this sickening disease several times recently in Time Magazine.-I've enjoyed this website, the only one I have ever been on. My own website for my second book has brought me emails from all over the world. I can follow the dispute over global warming on two sites I like, and there are five science sites I look at almost daily, which allows me to bring interesting new findings to this place.-I am a retired internest-cardiologist, living with my second wife on a paint horse ranch outside Houston. The ranch with horse shows keeps us busy, but I keep reading in this arena of thought, currently, "Not a Chimp", Jeremy Taylor, 2009. He covers the rather vast genetic difference between humans and chimps. It is not 98%, which is just counting bases. I'll give a little review when I am done.-I still can't respond to your encouragement to try Whitehead at this time. I'll mull it over, but there is another book awaiting me on the shelves, that I must absorb.