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Originally posted by Starboy,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Starboy,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-Technosoul,
Reality is just something that vanishes in the wake of another reality, is it logical to build a house on shifting sand?
Technosoul. |
Soul, you appear to have already made your conclusions about reality and you are trying to cram everything you see into those conclusions. Science is not philosophy, not mathematics and it is not religion. It is a tradition of mankind that tries to make an honest attempt to explore and explain reality. Not as man wants reality to be but as it is. Because it is done by men and not by gods there is no absolute viewpoint. There is no way to know if mankind has actually succeeded in knowing reality in any way, so all scientific knowledge is tentative. Science has not replace religion as the magicians of the cosmos even though many magical thinkers think that it has. Science is a very new idea in the history of mankind. An idea that you will not comprehend if you continue to study the ancient ideas you appear to be fond of. You must study science itself not what the philosophers tell you it is. The philosophers do not have a clue because they are still mired in the age of Plato and Aristotle (the Bronze Age).
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Modern research has found that the use of bonze dates back much futher then Plato, so someone missnamed that as the "bronze age".
The purpose of science is to continue to explore for more data about the mystery of reality.
The purpose of philosophy is to continue to explore for new ideas about the mystery of life, self, and the universe.
The purpose of religion is to continue to expand upon and to better define the meanings of spiritualism, human relationships, and morality.
Sort of like building a three sided pyramid.
Everyone of these three groups can be called "the Seeker".
In each of these groups are individuals who want to claim that we have reached the limitations of our knowing. I do not agree with nor advocate such a stand. I fully expect those how follow me to do greater things and to manifest better ideas then I do. And even now some have done that, and likewise in the past.
And yet, there are limitations for this age, we can only go as fast as we can go, which is faster then they went before, but not as fast as people will go in the future. Our knowledge can move only to a ceratian level of knowing within a given generation, each person at their own pace. However we can expect to reach peaks, back slide a little, and then jump ahead with greater momentum. But the momentum is the same for all groups or "departments" of human involvement relative to thinking.
And so to put it best we often turn to the poetry of words, for even as the mystery was created in the image of the Myth, so shall we create by our seeking a reality for the face of Truth.
Amen brother.
Technosoul.