RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
February 3, 2016 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 9:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
IDK Chad, you seem intent on placing self serving limits to science that, bluntly, don't seem to be limiting science. The nature of being? I think science has more to say on the nature of being in what tiny sliver it's glimpsed than all of the worlds faith traditions combined. Science is undoubtedly limited, but it doesn't seem to be limited in the way that you would like it to be. Your two options are charicatures..but who cares? When we don't know, we don't know..would you prefer that people lied to you and claimed knowledge they did not possess?
But all of this is ancillary and pointless, as your only beef with science is that you clearly feel the need to weaken and limit it before springing the word ghost in conversation. That's pointless, you don't have to believe all the silly shit you present to us about science, just to believe in ghosts...that's not a requirement.
You think that there are things that fail to satisfy the criteria of science, that do not conform to that standard, that still qualify as knowledge. You don't need to to present these ridiculous assertions in order to justify your acceptance of category b knowledge. The knowledge that you are hinting at wont meet the standards of math or philosophy either, so I don't know what sense referring to them makes. Just let it be what it is, and make your peace with what you've decided to call knowledge.
But all of this is ancillary and pointless, as your only beef with science is that you clearly feel the need to weaken and limit it before springing the word ghost in conversation. That's pointless, you don't have to believe all the silly shit you present to us about science, just to believe in ghosts...that's not a requirement.
You think that there are things that fail to satisfy the criteria of science, that do not conform to that standard, that still qualify as knowledge. You don't need to to present these ridiculous assertions in order to justify your acceptance of category b knowledge. The knowledge that you are hinting at wont meet the standards of math or philosophy either, so I don't know what sense referring to them makes. Just let it be what it is, and make your peace with what you've decided to call knowledge.
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