ARISTASIA FORUMS & SOCIAL NETWORK

I was fascinated by this recent post on Heartbook and what with the troubles of the poor Social Network, I thought we might discuss it over here.

Honored Miss Sommerfeld Quotes the site TVTripe TVTrope as saying:



I am not sure what an SFF mythos is (though I am pretty sure it isn't a mythos) but I looked up "Daydream Believer" on the same site. It gave some food for thought:



So that is what we are? Hmm.

Actually, these material theories aren't at all the basis of our belief in the Motherlands - and other dimensions of reality, though they might throw a rather crude and obtuse light on things - rather the way neurology might throw a certain minor light on music while remaining ignorant that it was dealing ultimately with the Music of the Spheres and thereby missing 90% of the point.

But even if one takes the view (so implicit that the writer does not even imagine that it could be questioned) that universes are mere "accidents" and intelligent life has no central place in the structure of any cosmos, the argument that worlds in any way like ours are improbable is forgetting much of the theory.

Remember Schroedinger's cat? Since at the sub-atomic level the cat must be alive and dead at once, it is postulated that there is in fact an existential split in which there is one universe with a live cat and one with a dead cat.

Since such splits are constantly taking place there must be countless dimensional worlds very much like Telluria - as well as many more very much unlike it.

Whether we believe the theory or not we ought to get it right!

Thank you for this insight, Miss Sorcière. I find it rather interesting to see that the material sciences today live a duality that is both fascinating and enerving, in my opinion.

First, we get to see that, sometimes, theories get very close to what traditional metaphysics already taught us before (like the big bang theory, in which the whole of the universe was created and expanded from one very dense and tiniest point, very much like how Our Mother God is sometimes described), but at the same time they add twists that go completely against the very human intelligence and can even contradict the theory they just "made up".

I guess that, in the end, the very basic way of thinking must still be connected to the Truth, since without it there would be no real order to things and to live without any Order is just impossible. But it must be the disease of times.

As to wheather they see Aristasians that way or worse, it really is hard to say something about it, since they don't really understand what is behind the theories they advocae themselves and apply to us.

Still, it doesn't cease to be amusing. Sometimes.

P.S.: has anyone ever heard of a theory that says "You have a full loaded pistol. You shoot it at someone. Depending on which way the particles tick (clockwise or counter-clockwise), the bullet might come out of the barrel or not". Does someone understand it?

I simply adore the author Ursula K. Le Guin!

<covers her mouth>
Oh, Dear! I didn't mean to interrupt, I just couldn't help myself. Please do go on.

Rayati,
Miss Daffodil