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Quote by: Prometheus ...but now I'm pretty sure you guys don't know what the hell you're talking about either. |
I began my spiritual search when i was 24; i am now 42. I noticed when i started that most people who have anything to say about spirituality, when you think about what they say, are actually saying nothing. I wasn't going to let that happen to me; i saw it as my responsibility to find and articulate the truth if it was there, no point finding it if i couldn't articulate it. Turns out that articulating it is like defining 'meaning,' it
requires abstraction. It also turns out that the way the brain works provides a dialectic framework that is, as i see it, analogous to (or perhaps descriptive of) the way humanity has perceived spiritual Being traditionally.
While Dadoo's questions touched on the notion of free will, they spoke directly to the issue of cause and effect (action and reaction.) Or what? Usually, a perterbation resulting from the action propagates 'outward' from its source, does it? Sorry for my tone, but your post suggests an unwillingness to engage in 'communal abstraction.':) And when that perterbation impinges on another 'thing,' that thing might be stimulated to respond in some 'passive' or 'active' fashion; would you agree? I mean, these things seem rather self-evident to me; based on overt appearances. I'm not saying it's how things are, just how they look. Further, the shout comes from the compulsion, the agent; wouldn't you say?