Thursday 1 August 2019

Richard Feynman on The Difference Between Boys and Girls, and Religion.

First, listen to Feynmman on how his daughter had a very different view of how the world should work. It should work like a book, with an author and a story, otherwise how do we know what we should do?


And listen to Ariel Bissett talking about how she couldn't finish The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, because the central character had no agency, as she so eloquently puts it.


Now listen to Amy Purdy talking about her own life, and how, at various times, she asked herself the question "If my life was a book, and I was the author, how would I want the story to go?"


Now listen to Feynman talking about Religion, and why, as he says, he can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relation to the Universe.


What he says, in summary, is that whereas scientists ask, of scientific theories they wish to test, "In what ways could I know this not to be true?" this doesn't work with religious stories, because they very quickly become unravelled!

This is why I think the story of Mary Magdalene is particularly interesting. See Mary Magdalene and Early Christians. And I think it explains this song. See For H.


And maybe that gives us a way to explain these too:





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