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    Originally Posted by Orcam
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    Originally Posted by islandofapples
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    Although I am fond of Eastern philosophy, I must admit that most scientific and technological progress was not made in the East.

    The Middle East / Arabs played a rather large part in adding to our knowledge about Mathematics and Science, and they also preserved a lot of knowledge while Western Culture worked its way through some dark ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

    Also, I think progress has been made in the East. The Chinese, for instance, invented gunpowder and many other impressive things, long before we invented or started using the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions

    I don't think our schools like to give credit to anyone else. I used to think our culture was more progressive / creative / advanced also, until I was majoring in History in college.


    I do agree with some of the other stuff you said, and I think that might be why DH and I gravitate toward Buddhist type spirituality.

    I'm going with Spenger's Civilization Model until someone can give me a better one:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spengler%27s_civilization_model

    So far, it's the only model I've seen that essentially has a fractal conception built into it.

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    If you are HG of course you see more than a good percentage of the population, but consider that your visualization and viewpoint is peculiar to yourself.

    My father and I have similar LOGs and had great conversations, but I have come to realize that I am very visual like my mother (who I always thought I had nothing in common with).

    When I was 4 I remember eating cereal, and I realized that noone else heard my chewing the cereal in the same way. When I took freshman philosophy and read "The Cave" I had deja vu. I realize that everyone sees the world from behind their own flesh (hardware), then with their mind (software).

    It must have been very interesting to meet someone who saw the world in a similar fashion, and please take it as a gift. I generally have two groups of friends, artists and builders who can see the world and engineers/scientists to talk to.

    I apologize for not being the best writer though I do well enough with technical material.

    rocky

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