I am in reflective mood, like the man in my favourite book, it appears that the time has come to leave. Like Almustafa, The Prophet’s namesake, I will reflect on my journey. Unfortunately, I am not as grown up as he is, so anything I say here will probably be more about ego than anything else. Indeed, I have scorned others who have left the forum, seeing them as ‘snowflakes’. Oh well, snowflakes are complex structures when seen through a microscope, just as we are complex beings when looked at in depth.
It has become blatantly apparent that I have become out of synch with the moderators here. It’s no-ones fault, it is as it is.
In fact I am rather pleased with the way I think. I think out of the box. That some don’t feel that such thinking has a place here, I think is misguided. I think their thinking is limiting and to some extent ego driven. Yet it is my own ego that finds this fact hard to accept. We can’t all have what we want, and this forum is not inhabited by sufficient people who want what I want, which is a place to express my spiritual rambles. And make no mistake, a lot of my posts have a spiritual edge. I spend most of my time thinking about life, death, and what it all means. Since we left Skeptiko and started the forum I have been out of phase with many here, since I wanted somewhere to express my thoughts, while they wanted it to be strictly Pscience.
Parapsychology and Science are but a relatively small part of life, to me, life is largely about human behaviour and emotions. Nothing can be discussed openly that hasn’t been filtered through human brains, that is a huge problem. Alex found this out years ago, that facts don’t matter. Science and psi are secondary to human behaviour, you can’t discuss PScience without including human behaviour, and how can you dismiss topics which show human behaviour at its glorious best/worst? I have said that most things I am interesting in when I post are not the topics under discussion! Tom Campbell’s ranting on about people’s selfish behaviour and consciousness is not the point I was getting at. What stuck out was the way the comments showed how his opinion brought about lots of cognitive resonance, or was what he said itself cognitive resonance? To me, this is far more important than the vast majority of posts on the forum. If we can learn to understand why we get attached to ideas it will surely move us in a forward direction.
I didn’t think it would come to this when I posted a Tom Campbell video on the forum. Some will doubt my honesty. Don’t.
David Bohm is quoted as saying “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
https://youtu.be/emAeFuwtelQ
I said earlier that ‘it is as it is’, and that is no doubt true. However, I was and am still aware that the things I want to discuss and put to others, are not what the majority of members of this forum wish to see. So I don’t want to be ‘controlled’ when I post, I’d rather be childish and spit my dummy, like others before me. I prefer to think of it as a form of protest. Control is what we’re seeing everywhere at present, I just don’t want to see it in my friends.
So I will say a deep thank you to everyone who has accompanied me on my journey. I may well post conversations to various individuals, but my public posting days are over.
I said that I was ‘howling at the moon’ a few times when I wrote about my recent spat with my pals. I can’t express loudly enough how well this phrase ‘vibes’ with what I’m feeling.
It is perfect.
It has become blatantly apparent that I have become out of synch with the moderators here. It’s no-ones fault, it is as it is.
In fact I am rather pleased with the way I think. I think out of the box. That some don’t feel that such thinking has a place here, I think is misguided. I think their thinking is limiting and to some extent ego driven. Yet it is my own ego that finds this fact hard to accept. We can’t all have what we want, and this forum is not inhabited by sufficient people who want what I want, which is a place to express my spiritual rambles. And make no mistake, a lot of my posts have a spiritual edge. I spend most of my time thinking about life, death, and what it all means. Since we left Skeptiko and started the forum I have been out of phase with many here, since I wanted somewhere to express my thoughts, while they wanted it to be strictly Pscience.
Parapsychology and Science are but a relatively small part of life, to me, life is largely about human behaviour and emotions. Nothing can be discussed openly that hasn’t been filtered through human brains, that is a huge problem. Alex found this out years ago, that facts don’t matter. Science and psi are secondary to human behaviour, you can’t discuss PScience without including human behaviour, and how can you dismiss topics which show human behaviour at its glorious best/worst? I have said that most things I am interesting in when I post are not the topics under discussion! Tom Campbell’s ranting on about people’s selfish behaviour and consciousness is not the point I was getting at. What stuck out was the way the comments showed how his opinion brought about lots of cognitive resonance, or was what he said itself cognitive resonance? To me, this is far more important than the vast majority of posts on the forum. If we can learn to understand why we get attached to ideas it will surely move us in a forward direction.
I didn’t think it would come to this when I posted a Tom Campbell video on the forum. Some will doubt my honesty. Don’t.
David Bohm is quoted as saying “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
https://youtu.be/emAeFuwtelQ
I said earlier that ‘it is as it is’, and that is no doubt true. However, I was and am still aware that the things I want to discuss and put to others, are not what the majority of members of this forum wish to see. So I don’t want to be ‘controlled’ when I post, I’d rather be childish and spit my dummy, like others before me. I prefer to think of it as a form of protest. Control is what we’re seeing everywhere at present, I just don’t want to see it in my friends.
So I will say a deep thank you to everyone who has accompanied me on my journey. I may well post conversations to various individuals, but my public posting days are over.
I said that I was ‘howling at the moon’ a few times when I wrote about my recent spat with my pals. I can’t express loudly enough how well this phrase ‘vibes’ with what I’m feeling.
It is perfect.
Oh my God, I hate all this. 
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