(September 14, 2015 at 10:45 am)robvalue Wrote: If someone scientifically minded uses the word, I assume they are using it as a metaphor for the human experience, our journeys through life, how we relate to the universe, etc.
If a non-scientific person uses it, I assume they think they are talking about something real but it is actually unsupported nonsense. It could be pretty much anything.
Non scientific people (people who haven't developed the use of the left side of their brains and just go with their emotions) often use the word to mean an escape from reality. so they often employ the use of mind altering drugs, retreats away from civilization and seldom does it have any effect on how they treat other people or lead them to deal with their emotions in a realistic way.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
