Science Is My God (history, Bell, teacher)

PaperHurricanesAndPlanes · 05-02-2007, 07:01 PM

Science Vs. God: The Deadlock

I sit in a chair,
That becomes less and less ergonomic.
Flipping through pages of textbooks.
I look for the answer to an impossible question.
Why do people act without compassion
Without some feeling of remorse?
I feel like I’m praying
To some super-scientific god
For some answers, some insight
Into people’s hatred.

Intently focused on these pages
Revealing the human psyche
But I don’t care about firing neurons.
Nor statistics or cerebellums.
I care about why we do what we do.
Why we love, why we hate,
Why we fuck, and why we rape.
Why we take a bullet for someone,
And shoot someone else. But

I can find no solace in science.
And falsehoods flood through religion.

In religion all I see is the hate,
That I so deeply question.
Murder and bigotry united.
All I’m looking for is a little peace.
Of the mind and in the world.
I feel like I’m praying
To some pseudo-scientific god
For answers, I have to find myself.

I don’t want to hear the theories of
Famous pioneers of hatred,
Or stories in some fantastical land
Of virgin impregnation, and
A boat’s massive population.
I want to find the answers
To why we are the evil thing that we call civilized. But

I can find no solace in science.
And falsehoods flood through religion.

atthedayofwhales · 05-05-2007, 08:58 PM

I really liked this. It seems like a debate on the whole science vs. religion thing, and I couldn't tell which one you were saying is right. Maybe, you're saying we can't even look to science or religion to explain certain things.

PaperHurricanesAndPlanes · 05-05-2007, 10:29 PM

I'm saying that I'm learning psychology, to try and find an answer for all our hate and such, but have found it to be of little help, and it seems like I'm praying to some sort of science God for answers.

atthedayofwhales · 05-05-2007, 10:35 PM

Oh, so you're in a psychology class, that's cool. Psychology doesn't explain everything, but I find it very interesting. It has revealed a lot of things to me that were shocking, yet very obvious if I had thought about them before.

PaperHurricanesAndPlanes · 05-06-2007, 10:14 AM

I'm not in a psych class. I bought the book on my own. I also got one on socio and two on political science. I am currently buying some books on political theory as well (I'm doing an independent study in political science with this teacher next year, mad cool guy, and he got his Masters in Poli sci). I haven't been to incredibly shocked yet. Then again, most of what I've gotten through so far has been about psych history and neuroscience. And then I got a little done on sexuality, none of which was surprising. Except that in the long-term, it seems that men, as well as women, also desire a long term partner. Did not see that one coming. No siree, did not see that coming at all.

PaperHurricanesAndPlanes · 05-06-2007, 04:35 PM

Bumpedit.

05-05-2007, 08:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
atthedayofwhales Groupie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 22	I really liked this. It seems like a debate on the whole science vs. religion thing, and I couldn't tell which one you were saying is right. Maybe, you're saying we can't even look to science or religion to explain certain things.

05-05-2007, 10:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
atthedayofwhales Groupie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 22	Oh, so you're in a psychology class, that's cool. Psychology doesn't explain everything, but I find it very interesting. It has revealed a lot of things to me that were shocking, yet very obvious if I had thought about them before.