wirelessguru1 Wrote:
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> > Limiting the data offered, just because it
> may be "orthodox", is simply putting people
> > into a box with only a few toys to play
> with.
>
> By no means I am suggesting that Orthodox views
> should be limited but they already control the
> publishing business (books, etc) and, as such, the
> Internet truly represents a new frontier...

I don't quite see orthodox views as controlling the publishing business. Look at Hancock, seller of a million books. How many orthodox books sell that well? I can't even think of one, to be honest. If we're talking about schooling, then yes, the orthodox tends to prevail in textbooks. However, it is also the teachers that may, on occasion, slip in an alternative idea now and then. I remember having one of my science prof teachers walking in and announcing to everyone that "Atlantis has been found" and talking about Mt. Thera and Santorini. It wasn't "some forgotten civilization was found". He said the A word--Atlantis. My anthro teacher did her thing as well. Taught us that the Clovis were the first here, just as in the textbook, but then proceeded to tell us her own thoughts on the matter. Even in the classrooms, what would be considered "alternative" viewpoints do slip in.

>
> Nevertheless, you can clearly see in these
> primarily academic discussion boards like the
> hallofmaat the tendency for the established and
> more status quo views of things to desperately try
> to impose themselves as the more intelligent,
> sophisticated and knowledgeable views! Yet at the
> same time, these are the same people that still
> cannot see the "intelligence" factor within Nature
> itself!!!

See, I don't see it that way at all. What I see at messageboards such as this one is alot of discussion, people exchanging and debating various ideas and getting educated or educating in the process. Trying to establish behaviour patterns on one group of people isn't going to work. You can see just as many examples of the same kinds of behaviour on the opposite side of the spectrum.

> How ironic...
>
> I would bet you that if Da Vinci published on-line
> today his views would also be outside the present
> box and the "orthodox" would still try to
> discredit him...

It's hard to say what Da Vinci would think of things today. Personally, I would rather see him sticking firmly in the middle than diving off either deep end.

Stephanie



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