Superstition Isn't Inspiration

Og · 11-20-2007, 07:43 AM

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Creative inspiration isn't a lab product, but it doesn't
come from your fairy godmother, either. There's no
effective substitute for experimental verification and
reproducible results. A tarot deck can trigger strong
feelings of creative insight, but it doesn't convey
higher wisdom. Like horoscopes and ouija boards, it uses
suggestion to allow you to tell yourself a story that you
already know. Don't mistake mystic wish-fulfillment and
the promptings of your unconscious for objective evidence.
It's a breach of taste to imagine that the vagaries of
your own imagination are more interesting than the world.

Got this from http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/...te%2000003.txt

romansh · 11-25-2007, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Og

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Creative inspiration isn't a lab product, but it doesn't come from your fairy godmother, either.

Got this from http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/...37;2000003.txt

Hi Og
Liked the notes ... amusing in a serious way.... nothing there I couldn't accept at some level .....but I would need some sort of verification

I work in an laboratory environment and I am supposedly creative, so therefore the first statement ipso facto is not true.

Just wondering whether a discussion of where the different kinds of inspiration (religious, technical, personal...other) come from, is worthwhile?

Anybody any thoughts?
all the best