From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 08:46:12 MDT
Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Michael Wiik wrote:
> >
> > Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I've had an experience in my life which I cannot explain by
> > > anything other than either 'spiritual' phenomena or as a matter of being
> > > toyed with by the universe's sysop.
> >
> > I wouldn't worry about it. I daresay almost everyone has had experiences
> > like this, I've had a few myself.
> >
>
> So, do you advise chalk them up as meaningless glitches, things
> to be filed under "unexplained" or possibly significant and
> important clues that a bit more than is covered by our currently
> philosophy/worldview might be afoot? Something else? Some
> combination?
Why I think such experiences are potentially valuable, I think that I
along with most people are too grounded in the material world to get
much use out of them. For example, I spent some years studying various
'occult' subjects with the only real payoff being an increase in
observed coincidences, synchronicities perhaps. Aesthetically delightful
of course but not enough of a payoff to continue along that path as
opposed to developing marketable skills.
Robert Anton Wilson, in different books, linked both an increase in
meaningful coincidences and susceptability to asthma attacks to occult
study. Hardly seems a good ROI to me.
I sort of think of such unexplained glitches as easter eggs in a
software application. If we made an all-out effort, we might discover
that we're all in a computer simulation, but the next day the code would
be reconfigured, the previous day's discovery shown to be incorrect, and
the easter eggs might be removed as well.
-Mike
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