/lit/ - Literature

>>12856377
As a spiritual mystic, with no religion, it's funny knowing that I used to be anti-science due to the materialistic worldviews found therein, alongside all the nihilism too. But after realizing that these are just one camp of views, and not ones I have to agree with, or ones that will be here forever - I've since realized that the scientific revolution is among the most profound achievements that our species has yet made, and that the past few hundred years have contributed more to human knowledge than the previous three thousand. I've also started to read actual scientific books now, and the subjects are so interesting, I'm finding myself so enthralled by them. I'm learning about DNA right now, for example, and find it so neat. I can't wait to read into all the various realms - biology, physics, chemistry (well, physics and chemistry I studied in highschool, and found them so difficult, I barely grasped a thing, and might decide not to revisit them because they're too difficult for me), archeology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, and all the rest - I can't believe how much there is to learn. It's so daunting, yet so wonderful at the same time.

That said, I'm not giving up my mystical disposition, and firmly believe that consciousness and intelligence are all-pervasive, that both are eternal, reincarnation is a real mechanism, that ghosts and many other "supernatural" phenomena are real, and so on - it's merely that I now no longer feel an antagonism towards the scientific disciplines, and hopefully intend to connect their truths to my mystical pursuits, finding the synthesis between them. That said, I feel so grateful now to all the scientists before me, who I class as being some of the most noble humans to ever live, helping more humans than almost any kind before them. Science has benefitted our world more than anything earlier than it. I love you, scientists. Thank you so much, for making everyone's lives immeasurably easier, by your inventions. Be them medical, agricultural and every other kind - you have helped us forever. Also thank you for doing much to uproot religious irrationalism from our world, and introducing us into an era of humanism and reasoning unlike anything seen before it. The Greeks, though the original humanists and rationalists, still killed people on the basis of religious irrationalism.

Anyways I'm not trolling here. I used to unironically be "anti-science" without even knowing what exactly science involved or how impactful it has been to me and my species, and I've since come to love it and find it so compelling. To see what DNA looks like, for example, is so cool.

So sorry to any STEMchads if I ever argued with you on here. Your discipline is unironically among the greatest in this world, but it's finally time for you to abandon your incoherent materialism and take the panpsychist (involving the all-pervasiveness of both consciousness and intellect) and pantheistpills.
>pic attached is unironically me