Galileo and the Prodigal Son

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The wisdom underlying
both the scientific retraction forced upon Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church
as well as the basic psychology underlying the parable of the Prodigal Son
has been entirely lost in translation by our culture

Galileo had to be rebuffed
not because he was disbelieved by the intelligentsia of his time
who were all educated members of the Roman Church
but because of far wider implications than simply under-mining the authority of the Pope
and refuting the religious teachings of the Holy Bible

Galileo’s discoveries also challenged the credibility and investment
of a vast world-wide mission-based educational infrastructure
that had taken 1500 years to install
one that had sent out thousands of learned scribes
to educate tens of millions of illiterate peasants
graduated whole tribes out of an antiquated oral-based system of instruction
putting an end to an entire Bronze Age of contentiously conflicting totemic idiosyncrasies
and clannish feuding
replacing it with a formalized Iron Age standard of literate development
and religious disciplines
essential to formulation and government of national industries of thought and application

It is upon this promary school base of education
established by organized Religions
base that the High School of Science
has evolved and flourished

Even now
five hundred years later
the Religious system of education is not yet quite finished
with literate goals it originally set out to achieve

The wisdom underlying the parable of the Prodigal Son
and rejection of an authoritarian Father
while gambling away his inheritance
refers to typical teenage rebellious demands for independence
reckless self determination
pseudo-intellectual political argumentation
and an eventual humble return to responsible ancestral estate management

We can see the biblical parable duplicated
in the scientific rejection of an authoritarian god
its scorn for religious dogma
its wars over political ideologies
its gamble with commodities on the global market
and its bankruptcy into a collapsing environment
forcing us into a humble return
to a religion of responsible stewardship

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so you think the fact that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around would destroy their education system? must be a pretty shitty education system if it crumbles once facts are known…

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Humpty
in Kindergarten education
the first order of business
is literacy
y’know
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getting the beginner’s intellect to focus on the grammar
as a prerequisite for further development
not physics to begin with
and if you can do this religiously
by evoking the name of God
with superstitious tribesman
is that not a good start?
in fact
is that not the only way to start?

how is you are so dismally unpractical
too much book learning while sitting on your backside
with no idea of how to tie a shoelace?

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So, shall we compare the earth to an egg? Humpty Dumpty did fall off that wall after all. Maybe there’s a sort of surreal analogy there, heaven forfend.

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I don’t understand what kindergarten and learning how to read has anything to do with the earth revolving around the sun. That’s a complete nonsequitor. If you’re going to call me dumb, you should at least be able to follow basic logic, and make a grammatically correct sentence.

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Is it not amazing
a simple old fashioned common sense explanation
that any farm hand of yore could could grasp
lost the modern laboratory of scientific confusion
or is “it” alarming? ](*,)

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are you deliberately typing incoherent sentences? try typing in a straight line, i think your problem is that you get lost trying too hard to write poems.

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is “It” not symptomatic
that one can omit a single syllable word
and it becomes the focus of discussion
while a monstrous social and spiritual injustice
that has grown more ridiculous and damaging to common sense
over the centuries
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you haven’t made any sense in this thread. first you say that a fact being discovered undermines education, and then you make a whole bunch of non-sequiturs in incoherent sentences. how about this: what’s your point? what are you trying to prove in this thread?

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That the High School of Science
should revere
its Primary School foundations
and continue to pay homage
to the Church that initiated a literate culture
and in doing so
not only redeem their lost honor
and thus make the world a better and less contentious place
but also allow High School students of science
to graduate beyond mundane technological thinking
and enter into in Universities that include Ontological Disciplines

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Well, I sure am glad that nobody in the education department of the government is taking advice from you (at least nobody important (i hope)). imo, school could use less religion, not more.

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Yep
we are talking roaring success rates here
no drop outs
no cheating
everybody straight 'A’s
model citizens
no disagreements
the Ed Dept sure knows what it is doing
why should it take advice from anyone #-o

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that sure is a flakey definition of “success.” if success means blind obedience, then I prefer failures. if you want to raise a squad of Hitler Youth, go for it buddy.

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flakey for sure
I see that sarcasm escapes you
I was of course referring to your school of thought
where systematic state-enforced textbook indoctrination of the child mind
for six hours a day
for twelve years or more
inside a static classroom
is the boring mind-numbing menu of the day
talk about billions of child armies
goose-stepping to the science mantra
with armories filled with nukes and napalm
what a sick joke #-o

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How did you decide that this is my school of thought? Nothing could be further from the truth, but regardless, show me what weird logic you used to determine this.

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I think i see, you assumed that because I prefer the education system in place to the religious one you propose, that I must be in full support of the education system in place altogether. You’re mistaken sir. It’s just the lesser of two evils, the greater being the one you support.

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Silly egg
you still don’t get it
what I propose is a school of thought
that educates and stimulates BOTH sides of the brain
analysis without intuitive inspiration
is dead meat

man without an awakened spirit
is a zombi

Science without religion
is a mind without a heart
Albert Einstein

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so you call forcing Christianity on children “stimulating their brains”? interesting. like i said, i’m glad nobody with any power is listening to you.

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Define a body with power
Who said anything about Christianity per se

Metaphysics encompasses all the frequencies
invisible and inaudible to the left brain

What is the extent of your education?
Have you ever studied the physics of dual brain modes of perception?

It seems to me that your right brain has atrophied
Tell me one right brain drill that you practice
religiously
do you ever have insights into vistas
that lie beyond the realm of science
have you ever had an OOBE?
or an NDE?
seen a ghost?
and if you did
how did you interpret that?

Give me something that will allow me to respect your criticism of holistic realms of knowledge
something beyond the one-sided mundane reality that we all were indoctrinated with in state schools

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I don’t understand why, when people debate me, they insist on denying things they previously said. It’s really weird. Do they just have that bad of memory? Or are they chronic liars? What’s up with this? It’s garbage.

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Bowing out spiritlessly?
No attempt to answer metaphysical questions?
Afraid to expose a half empty skull?