[UA] What Do You Beleive?

[R. Menzi]

----Royal Minister of Stuff yokeltania at yahoo.com

> What religions do we have represented in
> this mailing list?

     I myself am what you'd call a secular Jew. 
Actually of the Reconstructionist tradition.  If you
haven't heard of Reconstructionist, think Judaism sans
any "chosen people" bit and the existance of God in
any traditional sense.  My Dad translates Kabalah
texts, but I'm still too young to care for it.

     On the other side, I understand that I may well
be more a puppet of the human hivemind than the
individual, which may as well just be the current
Zeightgist (sp?) that's projected via the hivemind.  

     It's the little things that make me acknowledge
the hivemind.  Studies that conclude that, through
some undetectable mechanism, crossword puzzles are
easier to solve 3 days after they are published than
they are on the day they come out, or why calculus was
developed by 3 different people isolated in different
parts of the world within the same generation.

    Thoughts that have been thought are produced more
and more easily as more and more people think them. 
Evidence of this has been found in other species as
well: the famous Blue Teets of england, a
non-migratory bird species that learned how to open
cream bottles between WWI and WWII.  During WWII,
dairy deliveries were suspended for about 5 years,
several blue teet lifespans.  By the time they were
started again, every blue teet that ever opened a
bottle of cream and all of their children were all
dead.  The post war blue teets had no examples of
bottle-opening behavior to copy and too few
generations had passed for bottle-opening to impact
their genepool to produce instinctual actions. 
Despite this, as soon as the cream bottles were put
out, the new generation of blue teets spontaneously
reproduced the bottle-opening behavior of their great
grandparents' generation --  the blue teet hivemind in
action.

     Of course, the aforementioned studies are the
work of the dismissed Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, who
focuses a little too much.  Still from where to
unbidden thought come?  Why do we get songs stuck in
our heads.  Perhaps the brain is just a reciever, an
meaty instrument designed by our genes, and the
details of the instrument influence what and how well
(in the case of brain damage) we recieve and manifest
the broadcasts of the human hivemind.



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     Anyway, most of the time I avoid thinking about
such things, but even so, what I seem to know and what
I feel to be the case rarely match up.  Feel free to
use his stuff for your games, especially for some
random and rambling talk about the IC and its
influences:

http://www.sheldrake.org/



Regards,
- R. Menzi

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