From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 08:28:08 MST
Starman wrote, Sat Feb 15;
<<<<I suppose Darwinism is a good place to see if people really can
be "Fortean". Fort's entire point was that the alleged
'certainty' of modern man about this, that and the other thing is
just the result of people, lemming-like, putting their trust blindly
in experts and adopting what are actually beliefs while thinking
themselves above all that.
He was truly a free thinker and skeptic in the true sense. All
things were open to questioning. That's the real attitude of science
that has brought us forward. But how often is it actually being
practiced now? Instead dogmatism has taken over again.>>>>
I agree with all that you've said there. Forteana began with "The
Book of the Damned", but it's easy to overlook that central point of
Fort's; to put it another way - that it's the dominant prevailing
belief system that actually defines and damns - whatever undermines
it's credibility.
Anomolies are just facts that don't fit into the current belief
system - so what other system could be devised where they wouldn't
be considered anomolous?
The first and most obvious answer that comes to mind is; ANY system
that doesn't exclude the reality of some-sort-of God or spirit-
beings.
In other words, ANY culture anywhere in the world in any age - NOT
based on the exclusionism of Darwinism - would not need to debate
the very existence of phenomena such as poltergeists, apparitions,
BVMs, EVP, John Edward, and "contacts" and mediums in general,
ectoplasm, spirit photography, levitation, ouija boards and
automatic writing, UFOs and abductions, Crop Circles, OBEs and NDEs,
reincarnation, freaky coincidences, miraculous recoveries, SHC,
precognition, prophecy; even alternate theories of psychology,
emotion, hallucinations and schizophrenia, illness and health, the
whole gamut.......could all be objectively studied to find out
what's real and what isn't, how it's done and what it means, without
the mechanistic assumptions that now limit knowledge.
The list could be extended into "natural" areas that Darwinism has
also "damned", like "blood rains" and other things that fall from
the sky, comets and their cargoes, asteroids, anomolies of the solar
system and beyond, civilization-destroying world catastrophes, mixed
fossil dinosaur and human footprints, out-of-place artifacts,
cryptoids & BCs, origins - of coal and oil, of life, species, man,
rise and fall of empires and what happened to them, "what it's all
about" in general...., which CAN all be sensibly related to one
another in a universe NOT based on the evolutionary model.
Quickly adding that, in reality, religion-based societies
(especially the monotheistic) have been (are now, will be again?)
the harshest and most intolerant despostisms of all - heretics need
not apply.
The Darwinian era has at least ALLOWED a "golden age" of Fortean
research for those individuals with a taste for delving. It's up to
each of us to work around whatever the system puts in the way and
take account of the heretics too - even (from my perspective)
Darwinists and atheists :-)
vadar
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