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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-12-13 03:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2902 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2902 ⌋

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Re: Believer

(Anonymous) 2014-12-14 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Which is actually the conclusion Mulder comes to eventually. You need evidence or proof to get other people to consider that maybe you're not crazy. As I get older I realize that the X-Files is actually a really good show for scientists to watch. There's this book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, I had to read it for a grad class. The author, Thomas Kuhn basically says that scientists don't see as far as they do because they "stand on the shoulders of giants." Knowledge doesn't accumulate through out time, not really. Instead the present paradigm is shaken up by someone and then current theories and ideas reassessed. Which is what happens to Scully through out the show. In the end she doesn't throw away her methods, she instead changes her world view to one that is open to that 0.00001 when the experiment didn't go as planned.
I'm also a believer only because too much weird shit has happened to me that's with out a mundane answer. And I'm also an anthropology grad student. I have trouble reconciling the two sometimes.

Re: Believer

(Anonymous) 2014-12-14 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
I've been taking some anthro classes, including one on dreams and dreaming. Last I knew, she was on the only prof in the US to teach it. Sometimes things just are, whether we want a clear answer to them or not. We tend to forget that in this modern age...