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The last thing I need is for people like Newton or Galileo to model the proper way to treat other people. They were both jerks. Although priest didn’t such a good job either.
| Good that you added this at the end. We don't need icons of other people, but of concepts to guide us. This is the nature of religion. This is a common use of the term in many areas. Buddhism is the example that I use because it is virtually identical with the process of science in its tenets.
Science is THE world religion and all these other ones such as christianity and islam are local "desi" or "provincial" religions of the past. The pantheon of science are our observations. It is not equated with christianity in many ways, but that doesn't mean it isn't a religion.
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici. (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
The self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships
You & I, no distinction. - Tat Tvam Asi
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