Oct 22, 2022·edited Oct 22, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent
This interesting article gives me an opportunity to share the strangest moment of my life. I do not yet want to share it on my own substack.
Just a background on me, I am an agnostic (meaning that I do not believe in God, however I am open minded). I am partly an agnostic because I am not sure if applying "scientific method" to "existence of God is even appropriate because God is non-falsifiable.
So... A strange incident happened several years ago.
A worker of mine was behaving badly towards another employee and was mean. I asked him to stop, but he would not. Exasperated, I told him that I have a bad feeling that God will punish him for his misbehavior.
The employee started laughing and said that there is no God and how will he get punished? I said, I have no idea, and God will find His way. So he dismissed me and turned, laughing, ready to walk away. He did not notice a cable on the floor, slipped and fell down. He was hurt only superficially, however the immediateness of the consequence jarred me.
This incident left me totally shaken for DAYS because the punishment (fall) followed the moment of his blasphemy and laughter immediately. I also thought that it was very proportional -- and extremely close in time. Was it a freak accident? Or a punishment from God? I do NOT know.
I have this incident recorded on a security video (no sound).
Great food for thought here. I do take issue with that chart in the middle, where we have "System 2" thought as a dualistic choice - either we reject the "superstition" though "rational thought" or we embrace the superstition. I find a lot of so-called superstition actually has merit and I will often assess this using my rational mind.
For example, I am studying Vedic astrology. It seems superstitious on the surface but could energies from planetary bodies impact us, and somehow the ancients figured this out through meticulous observation? The first time I had a Vedic astrology reading, I was absolutely blown away by how much of my life history was in my chart, to the point where it freaked me out and made me reconsider the nature of reality...
This interesting article gives me an opportunity to share the strangest moment of my life. I do not yet want to share it on my own substack.
Just a background on me, I am an agnostic (meaning that I do not believe in God, however I am open minded). I am partly an agnostic because I am not sure if applying "scientific method" to "existence of God is even appropriate because God is non-falsifiable.
So... A strange incident happened several years ago.
A worker of mine was behaving badly towards another employee and was mean. I asked him to stop, but he would not. Exasperated, I told him that I have a bad feeling that God will punish him for his misbehavior.
The employee started laughing and said that there is no God and how will he get punished? I said, I have no idea, and God will find His way. So he dismissed me and turned, laughing, ready to walk away. He did not notice a cable on the floor, slipped and fell down. He was hurt only superficially, however the immediateness of the consequence jarred me.
This incident left me totally shaken for DAYS because the punishment (fall) followed the moment of his blasphemy and laughter immediately. I also thought that it was very proportional -- and extremely close in time. Was it a freak accident? Or a punishment from God? I do NOT know.
I have this incident recorded on a security video (no sound).
Great food for thought here. I do take issue with that chart in the middle, where we have "System 2" thought as a dualistic choice - either we reject the "superstition" though "rational thought" or we embrace the superstition. I find a lot of so-called superstition actually has merit and I will often assess this using my rational mind.
For example, I am studying Vedic astrology. It seems superstitious on the surface but could energies from planetary bodies impact us, and somehow the ancients figured this out through meticulous observation? The first time I had a Vedic astrology reading, I was absolutely blown away by how much of my life history was in my chart, to the point where it freaked me out and made me reconsider the nature of reality...
Just to give credit where it’s due.
Stevie Wonder got the song Superstition from Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Aren't safaris just what people go on in Africa? Tigers are in India and environs.