(January 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 15, 2016 at 10:54 am)ChadWooters Wrote: No one is disparaging the modern scientific method or the innumerable technological advances from which we benefit. All I am saying is that life has a qualitative aspect that cannot be analyzed or appreciated on a purely materialistic level. If your only gauge of what counts as reality is your physical and material well-being, then you have summarily discarded the entire world of inner personal life that cannot be reduced to physical facts.
Stop projecting your desires of how you think I should view the world.
Saying "this is it" has nothing to do with my ability to feel and have emotions and appreciate art and life. How dare you presume for me what goes on in my head. What is inside me are my organs, and my brain is the only thing that regulates my emotions. But saying that is all there is does not mean I don't have emotions.
The only thing I have discarded are bullshit explanations. I don't have to sex up reality to appreciate it.
Yes there is just the material world. And just so you know, we can also scientifically measure our emotions through neurology and biochemistry. We can also use science to detect the things we cannot see with the naked eye, like the inside of a black hole because of the affects the unseen have on what we do see. Science like evolution explains quite beautifully how we evolved. Science does in very beautiful fashion super novas and galaxy and planet formations.
None of that takes my deep appreciation for my Mom, my best friend Bob, my cat, a sunset, a good movie, a good book. How dare you.
Yeah, for a believer in true essences of humans, Chad has a bizarre tendency to dismiss the sum and total of other people's humanity that just doesn't quite seem to follow with his world view...
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
