Scripture or Stricture?

Both Scripture and Stricture by appointed authority have no valid currency to deal with man's predicament with Coronavirus.
But good hygiene and restricted behaviour may curtail the virus.
It is interesting to see, when Turkish are bent on turning a Church to a mosque, when Church itself is feeling the pinch of the Coronavirus economic downturn and survival.
They are asking money from the government for maintenance.
These colossal structures have no space other than cultural museums for display.
What we need is more schools with lot of space than places of worship that offer no protection from natural but viral causes.
The architecture of the schools have to be redesigned and working hours extended to SHORT sessions of three or more schedules fitted in from 7am to 3pm  like in the all times.
The classes should be small with little context of short duration of 20 minutes.
One can assimilate only first 20 minutes of a standard one hour lecture.
The sermons, including Dhamma should be of 5 minutes stanza or psalms.
Lot of space should be (Intranet Not Internet) given to software but in a tablet instead of a laptop.
Of course I use my laptop for games and cell phone for blog pieces, with lot of mistkes.
I use SwiftKey, which is pretty elegant but adds its weight by way of corrections.
That was the reason for lot of mistakes.
Our Internet was severed due to outstanding non payment (was not due to financial reasons but due to the virus scare, I did not go to the city to pay bills) of bills.
I instead used the cellphone for blogging.
An interesting development.
In this scenario big books should be put on fire which I have started already.
With Internet the library as a place of learning may cease and they should be turned to museum pieces.
What I mean is that places of worship has no meaning in this century.
All religious places will naturally die a slow death except for small ceremonies (birth, wedding and death).

John Lewis death signifies what a gap there is.
Why blacks have separate Churches in USA?
 
Is the god white, black or brown?
 
I ponder and wonder.

Why these Avalanche of Ideas in this post?

A simple reason is that I read an interesting book by a guy with the gift of writing.
His writing was on a big presumption that science has captured all the mankind's ills, as they were poverty, famine and illness, including infections.
He is not a medical man but a writer.
The Coranavirus has broken his scientific premise.
So keeping an open mind is vital for our survival not politically incorrect gimmicky.

Is the religion an extreme of identity crisis?

I believe the religion was created to overcome the fear of the unknown.
The popular mysteries were earth quakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and cyclones.
Instead of relief it perpetuated more and more of fear.
Original sinners sin was passed down to the rest.
In addition, the fear of the god's recrimination and punishment was introduced as an institution.
There should be an antithesis to this fear mongering.
Then the emancipation would come automatically.
I tend to believe Sir Bertrand Russel, that religion created more harm than good.
It is time to abandon all religions.
Unfortunately Turkey the seat of most of the original thinkers origin is going back to all dogma of Mohammedans.
 
Capturing the museum was a big Original Mistake.

Is language redundant in critical thinking?

I think the language (apart from communication) was created to give a form of reference to the magnitude of lies mankind has propagated during the written history about 7000 years or less.
In the evolution of language the words of expression became very expansive.
Instead of separation of reality (if there is such thing) from personal perception or intuition, the two became entangled without an escape route for both.
The idea became idealism owned by the proponent of the idea, entrapping the owner in a self-propagating dogma.
 
Instead of language of wisdom, the the language of confusion took its roots.
 
The language of confusion and the intended lies gave birth to dogmas of various kinds including the institutionalized dogma of the Church.

One way entry with no return.
 
Words of confusion and lies rule the world today.
 
When will the world escape from this bondage to faked news and prejudice?

Is the mind a wave or particle?

Mind is a mystery.
Putting it on the electromagnetic spectrum as an agent of energy is not really out of place.
If it responds to the physical brain, then it ought to be in particle form.
If it is independent of the brain's electrical signal system, as a particle it ought to manifest itself as a wave.
Or is it neither particle nor wave?
Or is it outside the spectrum of energy?
 
If it is not a form of energy "What the hell it is"?

Is there is something called "Good Research"?

I think that good research is vital for human progress.
To begin with a proper evaluation of the current situations and themes of interest is mandatory.
The proposed theme should not be any longer than, that is necessary for the proposed 'context' to be validated or refuted on a future date with more refined data.

The bottom line is that the currently available data should not be massaged or faked to satisfy the proposed argument.
 
An open system of thought 'devoid' of hidden agenda is of paramount importance.

Is there a limit to analysis?

How did we get here intellectually?
It was philosophy to begin with.
Right questions were the beginning.
But we never got the right answers, to begin with.
Lots of dogmas had to be insinuated.
But one dogma remained institutionalized.
That is the Church who had the authority to stifle the questioning.
The strictures had the upper hand in answering any question that was raised.
But strictures never revised its dogma or abandoned the God and His creative power.
Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin and many others had the observation power and analysis which gave way to scientific thinking.
The testing ability to test a hypothesis came much later.
Can the science answer all the questions?
From Newton to Einstein to Hawkins dabbled with Singularity to explain but we are yet to arrive at the final goal.
Are we stuck now?
I would use Buddha's approach here.
Buddhist way of life is to reach the ultimate goal or Nibbana.
It is like a boatman crossing a river.
Once one has reached the land he anchors the boat to the boathouse and carry on regardless.
He need not carry the boat on his shoulders.
We need to drop all philosophical dogmas to begin with.
Then the god and his creation dogma.
I think we need to drop the scientific dogma, too.
Not absolutely, but at least until we find a solution to Coranavirus, we need to keep some form of science in our arson or tools.
 
My belief is that science as we see it has limitations.
We gather data visually or instrumentally.
Instruments at least visual are limited by the speed of light.
We are still unable to beat the light barrier, as with sound barrier.
New Science would emerge once the Light Barrier is broken.
Then dark matter and dark energy will be at our dispensation.
Beating the dark energy barrier should be our next target.
But we must beat the light barrier to begin with.
The light dogma is next to be left at the boat house.