RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 15, 2016 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2016 at 3:58 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 14, 2016 at 3:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 3:18 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Why? What is so bad about living in reality?
Because your concept of reality is severely constricted if you actually think that only scientifically verifiable facts count as knowledge. I suspect that while you may profess that, you do not actually live as if that were true.
What about non-reality is knowable? And how do you know that?
I feel sorry for anyone who confuses beliefs and knowledge. That way lies illusion and self-deception.
(January 15, 2016 at 10:54 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 6:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No just the opposite. Scientific method opens doors.
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.
And that is not knowledge, it's belief and emotion.
