HOW SCIENCE STRIPPED MORALITY FROM TRUTH - 1/2

We must not look towards science for morality, but look towards truth-telling instead

"Just by listening to a gut feeling, we’ve probably got a bigger chance at truth. By listening to a gut feeling of whether something is truthful, rather than picking up a scientific experiment and saying this is the whole truth. I think we need to rethink the relationship between what we perceive of as truth and science altogether, because otherwise we are really setting ourselves up for the next one. We know what it’s coming from: climate fearmongering. We know it’s coming from there, but we also know that there’s more attempts at so-called pandemics and diseases, and so we need to be ready for this in the sense that anyone could come up and say:

“I am the chief scientist of X and Y and this is what’s happening.”

And we’d all automatically believe that. Whereas I think the default position should probably be the opposite. If you’ve got to that position of power, what did you do to get there? And what happened to all the other people who didn’t get there? Were they maybe more truthful? Who’s profiting from you being there? So if we rewind a little bit, see how we got here? It wasn’t always like this. The culture that I come from is, essentially Classical culture that was integrated by Christianity. That’s the world I come from. And I feel that truth is not in the body of scientific research: it’s what needs to be said. It’s what rings true to me. Some people then say, but what if what he says is false? It could be, but it rings true to me because for me, truth is actually what happens when people talk, when people talk to each other, when people question each other. And also it happens in some texts and certain practices, whereas I think what, why we are where we are, is ultimately down to a philosopher called Descartes, who basically, believed that the mark of truth is evidence.

So our idea that in order to say something truthful, we need to present evidence, comes from there, but we are only taking this worldview and we are forgetting how we got there, which wasn’t from that worldview. We have seen clearly in the last three years, and we’re seeing now with climate, that I can be lying and have a whole body of evidence and have all the top experts backing me up, I can have all the graphs, I can have people I know in movies, in politics, and probably a lot more evidence than has been produced for the contrary, because there’s less funding to say the opposite, which may be true, and I can still be lying. I would think that it’s time to totally turn on its head this Cartesian view from the start, which is that evidence is the mark of truth, and to actually start to be highly suspicious of evidence, and come back to other criteria, which I think we can talk about.

One of them is gut feeling, intuition. But there are also certain practices. If we go back before Descartes, what do we have? We have Christianity. And in Christianity, truth was understood as a belief in a certain set of moral teachings as codified in very specific books. That was the truth: it’s there, it’s written out, it has to do with morality. And what has that been replaced with? It has been replaced with the belief that truth is science. Now what has changed there? What has changed there is that actually something went missing. We lost something along the way. And what is it?

It’s morality.

You see what happened? Where is the morality inherent in science or in what we consider science?

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As we approach the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks never forget Netanyahu was in LONDON at that very time.

What exactly was he doing there?

Watch now: https://rumble.com/v7cbusi-netanyahu-was-in-london-at-the-time-of-the-77-attacks.html

🇮🇹 One of the the oldest surviving processions in the UK, Manchester’s annual Madonna Del Rosario Procession took place today. 🎉

Known as Festa Della Madonna Del Rosario', the procession started from St Michael's in the heart of 'Little Italy' in Ancoats, Manchester.

The procession, organised by Manchester Italian Association celebrates the migration of many Italians to Manchester, many of them settled in Ancoats.

Thank you to all who took part in the joyous occasion and lined the route to watch. 🎉👏

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