"Simplicissimus" "The notion that science and spirituality..."

got to be quick
been reading and here are some of my notes
and my interpretation of them

people have worshiped something or other for a long time
the Venus statues go back many thousand years
there is the cult of the rosary (Rosa coeli) which was began by St. Dominic

there was the cult of Nezahualcoytl the sensual coyote diety

there is the Anthropic Cosmological Principal which says that
the cosmos was created to produce cosmologist so the cosmos could
experience itself...sounds odd to me but cosmologists may believe that

there is a difference between philosophy and theology
Plato was a philosopher whose real name was Aristocles
which means "broad shouldered" and he was a competitive
wrestler and wrote something like soap operas before he got
into the philosophy business
his teacher was Socrates
I have read and memorized all of Socrates writing
Socrates never wrote anything however..but it sounds good
Socrates said writing is like a painting and cannot change
but he thought his opinion changes with his experiences
so why write them down...smart guy that Socrates
Aristotle was taught by Plato but he abandoned Plato's school when
they did not make him the head honcho
Diotima was a woman who supposedly taught Socrates a thing or two

a Buddhist fellow has this idea about belief
"When we die our bodies begin their "dissolution" and then
our mind begins it's "dissolution" and the mind drops it's anger,
and it's ignorance and it's desire, all of which cloud the mind
and at this time it is possible to see existence in its reality."
that is why they meditate so much because they want to be ready
for the clear mind time...what happens then I forget..something big.

now this phrase is important
"Combinitorial innovation- proposes that progress comes from the right
combination of existing ideas."  sounds like a plan to me

here is an idea from a Nobel prize winning physicist who hade some
very profound insight about the nature of the universe

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force...
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and
intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck

I am not sure why he thought there must be a conscious and intelligent mind
behind the force...Steven Weinberg thought just the opposite and he also
had a Nobel prize in physics...

then there are people who dont have much of a curiosity
about anything...but they do place a high priority on certain things.

"A test of every religious, political or educatuional system
is the person that it forms."  H.F. Amiel

got to go Carl V. Crabury