100 years ago, Charles Fort founded the Fortean Society to staunchly oppose any and all Scientific Dogma. We are on the verge of a vast and increasingly organized revival of this mission and vision.

posted 3 years ago by axolotl_peyotl 3 years ago by axolotl_peyotl +93 / -3

Charles Fort (1874-1932) was a fascinating figure that dared to challenge the scientific status quo. Fort specialized in the collection data that he declared to be "damned" because it refused to fit in the acceptable range of scientific orthodoxy.

Here are some of the stated goals of his eponymous Fortean Society:

To remove the halo from the head of Science.
To make human beings think.
To destroy scientists' faith in their own works and thus force a general return to the truly scientific principle of "temporary acceptance".
To inform the general public of the political and self-preservative character of most work done under the ambiguous cloak of "pure" science, principally astronomy and physics.
To inform the general public that the "cosmic order" Science pretends to have established in the flux of existence is simply a mental discipline imposed upon mankind as an expedient to enforce social and economic "order" under what must be--at longest--an ephemeral status quo.
To prevent scientists from further development of any hierarchy, Brain Trust, Court of Wisdom, authoritarian dictatorship of intelligence or learning, which would--if permitted--lead to a more powerful domination and consequent paralysis of human mentality than any ever imposed by any Church or State or Press in history, not excluding any of the ideologies current today.
To destroy awe for Authority, as such, in the youth of the world at as tender an age as possible.
To provide the means for the perpetuation of dissent from any and all dogmas as long as time shall last.

What do you think? Are we not the spiritual successors, the very embodiment of the aims of the Fortean Society from a century ago?

They were heavily maligned in their time, as are we. We dare to challenge the $cientific orthodoxy, because it must be challenged.

Here are the published works of Charles Fort:

The Book of the Damned (1919)

New Lands (1923)

Lo! (1931)

Wild Talents (1932)

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– cee8hooz 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Darwinism of course was never proved: The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest—Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. “Fitness,” then, is only another name for “survival.” Darwinisn: That survivors survive.

What a nonsence. All fitting to environment survive. Or rather more clearly:

those who not fit to their environment too much do not survive enough to have offspring.

Truism so.But big one. This is really Darwin's theory.

"Survival of the fittest" is vulgar and wrong interpretation by half-brain calvinists for whom that was scientific confirmation of their "supremacy".

It is the same like human ancestor being monkey.

It is not.Common ancestor who could be called monkey (and who said evolution wasn't tool of God who is REASON to create another sentient reason at his image). What is also forgotten but was from ancient times known to ancient "primitive" nations - we share much with all other life,all animals and even maybe plants.