source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:40:28 -0800 Subject: proof is needed From: Gary Morrison > I'm pretty > sure "science" doesn't have a clue just yet as to how to explain what's > going on there. Death comes for all, and we know not when, or how it will > occur...absolutely natural, and out of our control. (Hmmm... Well, I'm not sure that death would qualify as an astrological force, but that's not your point.) Death is certainly one of those things in our world that can be approached from a scientific or a religious perspective. But although the topic is the same, the answer is different. The reason the answer is different, is because the question is different. The scientific questions about death are all addressed under the heading of Medical Science. Certainly it's not difficult, for most causes of death anyway, to explain the mechanism in cold, unambiguous, logical terms. But that's pretty much the proverbial "water under the bridge" when it comes to the religious angle on death. Because in that case the questions are entirely different: "How will the surviving family deal with grief?", "will we ever see the deceased again?", for example. And music is similar, as I aluded in my previous post. It has a clear physical underpinning, and it also has deep impacts on our feelings. But just because they're both consequences of music doesn't mean that the study of one will necessarily help you draw conclusions in the other. But all that aside, there's certainly nothing mysterious about the effects of the recent solar discharge upon satellites and upon terrestrial organisms including people. It had little readily apparent effect upon us, and damaged a satellite, largely because the satellite is outside of the shield of our atmosphere. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:58 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06824; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:58:00 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06814 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id DAA12339; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 03:56:16 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 03:56:16 -0800 Message-Id: <199703201150.DAA12133@ella.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu