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posted by
Kayzzaman
on August 25, 2008 at 4:34 AM
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When we deny the spiritual life, our awareness itself becomes so preoccupied with the details of each individual event that its' grasp of the bigger process becomes hindered and sometimes all but lost as we get trapped in the details. People become obsessed with their own favorite ideas about life and will rather lie or die than admit that they may have been mistaken about other peoples ideas based on their own shallow assumptions about such an other person. Perhaps because political correctness and appropriate networking are steps on the ladder of success in the human sciences, this seems to be a plague amongst many academics at present.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on August 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM
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Re: Science is supposed to be the study of truth, reality, what is. It oft
If some science junkies will admit to the possibility of flaws in their favorite theories and some religious people will admit that they themselves may have misunderstood their own religion we will have some real progress to shared meaningfulness. Unfortunately the knowledge of God, as written down by people, have the same proneness to error and perhaps even greater proneness to error in interpretation than the words of science. Both aim to understand and explain Life, but science is simply limited to quantity and other measurable variables whilst religion is about quality and immeasurable experiences that cannot be reduced to figures and formulas.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on August 24, 2008 at 11:20 PM
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I think Sting said it best: "We are spirits living in a material world." There is a spirit world, and it is more real than this "natural" world. It cannot be quantified or studied by any of our sciences.
posted by
calmcantey75
on August 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM
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Science is supposed to be the study of truth, reality, what is. It often
falls short due to human error, manipulation, previous assumptions of false facts, or overgeneralization. God IS truth, the great I AM. I don't think it is wrong to link the two as long as we realize science can be flawwed and religion can be misunderstood.
posted by
christis
on August 24, 2008 at 10:09 PM
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