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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Order tramadol no prescription, At the Guardian, Charlie Brooker reviews Richard Dawkins' latest film, Enemies of Reason. As in his last film, The Root of All Evil, Dawkins takes apart straw men of all shapes and sizes, all of which personify a variety of human foolishness he lumps together as "superstition". To his credit, Dawkins correctly perceives a threat to human progress, and he gets close to the root cause of this evil - but ultimately, blinded by outdated semantics, he misses his true target.

As we've all learned in our high-school history classes, 50 Mg Opioids Tramadol, over the last 600 years, Western society has advanced in great strides, made possible by the birth of rationality through the liberation of progressive minds from the shackles of orthodox correctness. This brought about the Renaissance - the first major revival of state-sponsored secular progress in the West since antiquity - and later, the Enlightenment, an embrace and codification of rationality and a renewed interest in studying mankind's place in the universe as hitherto accepted notions of divine origins were discarded.

However, in our current time, we can observe the tendency to drag humanity back into the dark ages - to resist scientific ideas which disagree with an outdated worldview, and attack those value rationality over fealty to frozen, self-righteous dogma, order tramadol no prescription.

Apparently, those are our only choices.

Brooker attacks those who harbor fondness for "outmoded" worldviews:

"Spirituality" is what cretins have in place of imagination. If you've ever described yourself as "quite spiritual", do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you're incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the contemptuous mockery it deserves?

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Fundamentalist christianity is a child of the enlightenment, the ugly twin of reason. And both sides get it wrong.

Prior to Gutenberg and widespread literacy, the Bible was largely a secret, an ancient tome in dead language read and digested by clergy, who fed it in soundbites to the masses. As ugly as the Catholic church was in the Dark Ages, the cosmology and creation stories of the Bible were not read as literal truths, but rather as allegories, codifications of eternal recurring stories handed down from culture to culture, early Greek and Roman Christians working Mithras and Apollo into an appropriated Hebrew mythology, Causes Of Euphoria, itself brought out of Egypt (hello, Moses?) and adapted through trials and competition with Sumerians and Phoenecians (aka Canaanites), worked in with the ancient proto-Indo-European archetypes which also found their way into Hinduism. (Go read Joseph Campbell.)

The Church, for its part, was concerned with secular authority and denounced those who fought against that authority. It had no particular stake in this or that creation story; what it feared most were the implications that its right to determine truth was being challenged. Hence heresy, excommunication, burning at the stake.

After the Renaissance, empiricism made its debut, and faith responded by breaking away from organizational rigor: after Martin Luther, Christians began fighting amongst themselves, which took the heat off science and reason, Tramadol Er.

After the Enlightenment, science proceeded about its business of chipping away at the authority of religious institutions in the 18th and 19th centuries; after the Protestant reformation (and correspondingly, literacy) began to take hold, the individual was given a "personal relationship" with Christ.

Literacy taught naivety. It gave theology over to the untrained, undisciplined layman. The theology of Protestant churches (and, yes, for the most part, mosques and synagogues) had to compete with science for mindshare. On all fronts, including the Creation story and the afterlife, it demands to be taken just as seriously as science, seeking to answer the same questions (where do we come from, order tramadol no prescription. where are we going?) with the exact certainty and specificity of scientific inquiry. It starts with a different premise (that the Bible/Koran/Torah is the literal word of God), but uses the same means (or at least a mockery of those means) to analyze and dissect its subject.

Fundamentalism is essentially a reaction against science and modernism. It is the equal and opposite force that resists change.

But Brooker and Dawkins and the "New Scientists" don't realize what's at fault here. It's not spirituality per se, it's the very means developed by science that have brought about the fallacies of Modern America. Look in the mirror to point your finger: the resoluteness of belief, at any time anywhere, What Does Tramadol Look Like, is responsible.

Science and faith get along much better when we all acknowledge that nobody has the complete picture of truth. We're all seekers here, with two halves of the same picture. Science, the extension of our senses, establishes what is known to be repeatable. Faith translates the information of our senses into the language of our animal brain. We're made of both things and we need them both.

UPDATE:

Emily proposes that all Dawkins needs is a good peak experience. So does John Horgan.

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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

On sale tramadol online legally, This is the blogpost I never got to write. Nearly five months late. Calling myself out on my own procrastination.

I attended the Stockhausen Courses Kuerten in 2000, the first two weeks of my college year abroad. I was 21. I flew from Louisville, Kentucky via Detroit to Amsterdam, from there to Cologne, and took the train from the airport to downtown, then took a commuter train out to the end of the line, from which point I hopped on a bus, a year's luggage in tow, and was dropped off on a muddy roadside in the tiny town dominated by an otherworldly ego. I met my hosts, who took me back to my room in the countryside for a quick shower, sample tramadol overnight delivery, then took me back to town for a bite to eat.

Then they left.

I had no idea how to find my way back home.

I spent the night wandering the streets of the hillside town, finally curling up under a vinyl tablecloth on a picnic table in the courtyard of the elementary school where the courses would be held. In the morning I was greeted by students arriving for Markus Stockhausen's 7 am yoga class, and met with the festival organizers, who reconnected me with my host family.

My first night became an initiation ritual for me. I had spent a night homeless on the streets in a foreign city where (at the time) I barely knew the language and knew nobody. The next day, I attended rehearsals of the festival's flagship piece, Sirius, on sale tramadol online legally.

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More than anything else, Stockhausen's (often misunderstood) worldview, Tramadol Good For Depression, from his orphaned childhood to his youthful postwar travels with a magic sideshow to his early pseudo-serialist days in the Darmstadt camp (...how time passes...) to his meteoric stardom of the 60's to his personal crisis after the Osaka World's Fair in 1970 to his subsequent mythical re-formulation of himself, every action and every work explored with increasing depth and detail the concept of Time, and humanity's relationship with it.

In Stockhausen's lectures that I attended in that late July of 2000, he imparted as fundamental the axiom that musical education is the ultimate meditative, transcendental human (and indeed universal) activity. As the center for his unfolding of time, he used 71 bpm, the average heart rate of a human being at rest. From this axis mundi, he proceeded to further create subdivisions of time toward the infinitesimal, and cyclic compounds of time toward the eternal, sample tramadol online legally, much like the Hindu Yugas. He believed that with adequate practice and discipline, a musician might train herself to perceive with absolute accuracy and without subdivision arbitrarily long intervals of time. (Musicians are typically trained to accurately subdivide time intervals longer than a second into sub-second countable units.) The last thirty years of his work have been focused on demarcating "natural" time intervals: LICHT is the seven days, KLANG the 24 hours, SIRIUS the twelve months.

Stockhausen claimed - sincerely or otherwise - to be a spiritual child of the star system of Sirius. He claimed he knew he would live to be 100 years old, then die suddenly and be reborn on Sirius. On sale tramadol online legally, Sirius, an 8-channel work in the round, begins with a recording of an ascending, partially filtered noise from a rotating speaker. This was to be the descent of the four celestial beings from Sirius (the performers of the piece), come from the stars to impart heavenly wisdom of the meaning of the seasons and the stars on mankind. They took the form of the cardinal points of our zodiac: Capricorn (a bass), Aries (a trumpet), Cancer (a soprano), and Libra (a basset horn). The piece proceeds to begin with the sign of the current season (in our case, Cancer), and work its way around the cycle of the four seasons, exploring the interactions between the archetypes as the year continues.

For me, the connection between myth, music, Tramadol Sent Cod, and experience was relevatory. As a professing Atheist still struggling out from under an oppressive fundamentalist, literalist Christianity, the ramifications of this unity of spirit and matter have become the subject of my inner life ever since.

Stockhausen remains a controversial figure. Deluded. Certainly. Egomaniacal. Perhaps. Flawed. Absolutely. Visionary. Undoubtedly. His body has returned to the elements, but his vision for humanity continues to take hold.

Karlheinz Stockhausen died on December 5, Buy Tramadol, 2007 at his home in Kuerten. He was 79.