Most of us, though we often know something is wrong or even deeply troubling with the aesthetics of a place or situation, do not even have the vocabulary to dissent.
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^^**Alchemy was the last honest science, because it purported to seek things, and the others purport to know things.**^^
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**However it is a mortal sin to confuse the concept of consensus with science, for consensus is statement of politics, and speaks nothing of truth.**
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**Modern science is drunk on both certainty and consensus, with all the grave mistakes to show for it. The inventor of the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize, never rescinded**, which is telling not only of modern science but also the nature of awards.
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Alchemy comes from a time when people considered science a process and a philosophy, and **took allegories seriously enough to learn from them.**
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**Every child knows it is right to build, to dance, and to shout, though they cannot explain why. Nothing is more natural for the child or the ancient than to build a temple, or to deem objects sacred.**
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The rationalist points out that the sun is a star, in fact quite a small and fairly unremarkable one. **But the meek are blessed: It is only to a person with the proper amount of humility that the sun is really a sun, and to whom each sunrise is new.**
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**To argue proofs of religion is to miss the point of religion. What matters is if one’s sense of gratitude and wonder are fitting responses to our world.**
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