>From Terry: > http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=61849&page=1#Item_0
The steorn saga has been a real education for me. Whether it is naivety on my part or not, I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Steorn's engineers in assuming that they had accurately detected an energy/force anomaly in their ORBO technology. However, assessing these latest comments would seem to suggest to me that my trust may have been misplaced, perhaps badly so. If so it is not Steorn's fault, by my own alone. I still find what seems to be transpiring hard to reconcile within myself because my own common sense would seem to suggest to me that Steorn's engineers couldn't have been *that* stupid or so utterly self-deluded that couldn't have detected mistakes in their measurements. However, from my own personal experience I have to make the confession that once one has acquired a strong personal BELIEF in the existence of a particular process, any sense of objectivity pertaining to actual evidence that supports that BELIEF (or more importantly, the lack of actual evidence) is in danger of being parsed through the filters of one's personal beliefs. The results: The alleged explanations (excuses?) from Steorn's that the test rigs were too complicated and expensive to replicate, or that Steorn was attempting to build a "simplified" version might sound reasonable at first glance - perhaps for a while. However, as best as I can tell there simply doesn't seem to have EVER been any hard published data for which the jury could sink their teeth into. No wonder the jury eventually threw up their hands and left a sinking ship. In Zen-like philosophical terms, this does look to me to be a good example of the folly of what happens when one allows oneself to worship a belief, or as in this case: a belief in a "process" or "technology". Creating beliefs are not in themselves bad or evil. Beliefs are simply tools we all end up crafting throughout our lives to help us negotiate our way through the universe we operate in. The problem is when we allow ourselves to identify our very existence, the innermost part of our soul, too closely with a belief we have personally manufactured. All too often we tend to forget the subtle fact that we were the ones who came up with the belief(s) we subscribe to in the first place. We forget that we are responsible for creating all the false-gods we worship. We subsequently don't notice our incessant attempts to continuously prop them up on a pedestal, for we literally fear that if they were allowed to topple, so will our very soul. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
