Are you a Scientist?

[Saitia]

Are you a scientist?
Hypography started out as a "science site for everyone,"
but who really hangs out here— inquiring minds want to know.

[KickAssClown]

I concider myself a Scientist, however I do not have the formal documentation for such a claim, I can not claim to have learned from any prestigious university. I have not worked with any "great" minds on any ground breaking projects, besides the Hypography Crowd.

I am a humble self styled afficionato. I work with what I know, and I strive to understand more, to learn the answers to my questions, so that I maybe led to learn of new questions.

So are you asking in the professional (gets payed), or the level of Scientific Enlightenment (Does it for higher reason than that of the all mighty dollar.)

[TheBigDog]

Professionally I am a project manager in IT. But scientific method and critical thinking are central to my character. Am I a scientist? What are the criteria for being considered a scientist?

Bill

[Saitia]

Originally Posted by KickAssClown

So are you asking in the professional (gets payed), or the level of Scientific Enlightenment (Does it for higher reason than that of the all mighty dollar.)

Both, but certainly more interested in the latter. Scientists who burn inside to know the way things work are the ultimate religionists; they just don't know it. ( I see you answered science is your religion)

[infamous]

My ego says "I'm a scientist", my credentials say "In your wildest dreams"..........Infy

[Edella]

Originally Posted by Saitia

Scientists who burn inside to know the way things work are the ultimate religionists; they just don't know it.

Please,not this again.Can't we just agree to disagree?

[Saitia]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

What are the criteria for being considered a scientist?

From MPoV, a scientist is a curious, thinking, choosing, creative, combining, and discriminating observer of universe phenomena who classifies the mathematical facts inherent in the mechanistic phases of the material side of creation.

—Saitia

PS: thanks for your response this morning Bill; as you can see, I finally got an answer.

[Saitia]

Originally Posted by Edella

Please,not this again.

Not what again?

Can't we just agree to disagree?

Sure; what do you want to disagree on?

[KickAssClown]

Edella, I respect you veiw, I would like it to be known that that statement is very much a real.ism for me. I find that I can express spirituallty through Mathematics, Laws and Theory. I have a hardtime understand why it is that various people choose to keep these concepts seperate, as extreames are dangerous, and to be used in moderation.

As a oddball out, by most of science and religion's standards, with an ecclectic spiritual and factual education, having been in my (short) time here, Baptist, Universal Life Church, Johrei, Buddhist, Taoist, Animaemist, Aethist, Agnostic and Seclular humanist. In no particular order.

People often find my veiws on the world to be very odd, but I also find that people's veiws on the world I find very odd. To me it is intuitive that their is some emphermal property, which one might call the "soul", and that there is some guiding force to it all. It gives me comfort to realize that you know, maybe I'm not so deathly alone in this vast universe.

Now I'm going to get a little sappy here, so bare with me, as I don't like to talk about my veiws regarding religion, except where I believe it to be benificial. It is in my code of ethics to follow the teachings of Jesus, and the one that often comes up with this subject is: "Pray not in the public, be wailing the glory of god, for their reward is here and now. instead pray in secret, enter into your closet and pray there, where only god may hear you, for your reward will be in the kingdom of heaven."

One of my core beliefs is that universe is what we would call god, and that all the things within it are the imaginings thereof. Me and you, we are the children then of god and the tenders of a beautiful garden, of which we have some modicum of control over. Not because we are human, or special, but simply because we are. I suspect that the universe decides on what happens next by something which science can't yet measure. Belief. Not human cognition, but the raw potential of energy, charge, mass, spin and whatever else you can think of.

I think that particles dream, that we dream as a result. I think that particles think, that we think as a result. I think and therefore I am. who is? I am.

[KickAssClown]

I apologize for my outburst, and for any offense, resentment or anyother unpleasant side effect of my outburst, but I was moved by compassion and conviction. Keep in mind please, that I try to accomidate ALL views within my own, so that I may better understand.