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Quote of the Week
"'Don't you believe in flying saucers', they ask me? 'Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?'
'No', I reply. 'No, no, no, no, and again no.'
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out 'Don't you believe in anything?'
'Yes', I said. 'I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.'"--Isaac Asimov
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'No', I reply. 'No, no, no, no, and again no.'
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out 'Don't you believe in anything?'
'Yes', I said. 'I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.'"--Isaac Asimov
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Ben's Look at Dianetics
- Important Note
- BOOK 1: THE GOAL OF MAN
- How to Read This Book
- Chapter 1: The Scope of Dianetics
- Chapter 2: The Clear
- Chapter 3: The Goal of Man
- Chapter 4: The Four Dynamics
- Chapter 5: Summary
- BOOK 2: THE SINGLE SOURCE OF ALL INORGANIC AND ORGANIC PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLS
- Chapter 1: The Analytical Mind and the Standard Memory Banks
- Chapter 2: The Reactive Mind
- Chapter 3: The Cell and the Organism
- Chapter 4: The "Demons"
- Chapter 5: Psychosomatic Illness
- Chapter 6: Emotion and the Dynamics
- Chapter 7: Prenatal Experience and Birth
- Chapter 8: Contagion of Aberration
- Chapter 9: Keying in the Engram
- Chapter 10: Preventive Dianetics
- BOOK THREE: THERAPY
- Chapter 1: The Mind's Protection
- Chapter 2: Release or Clear
- Chapter 3: The Auditor's Role
- Chapter 4: Diagnosis
- Chapter 5: Returning, the File Clerk and the Time Track
- Chapter 6: The Laws of Returning
- Chapter 7: Emotion and the Life Force
- Chapter 8: Some Types of Engrams
- Chapter 9: Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy--Part 1
- Chapter 9: Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy--Part 2
- Chapter 10: Dianetics--Past and Future
- Appendix-- Dianetics: The Bridge to the Future
4 comments:
I took the liberty of getting right of the "Continue reading" link at the bottom for you.
Don't forget to read the responsesthe responses. Or multiplemultiple reviewsreviews from ScienceBloggersScienceBloggers.
[Let's see if my comment-fixing workaround actually does work around]
No. Now the problem has gone away. This sucks.
If you need a laugh, the Discovery Institute has posted a slide show detailing their 'review' of Judgment Day at http://www.judgingpbs.com/index.html. Yes, it is loaded with their usual misleading statements, quote mining, and out and out lies. I really liked how they co-opt evolutionary explanations and claim "an intelligent agent did it" as if saying it makes it so and completely divorces the occurrence with evolution.
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