RE: Thoughts on Buddhism
February 5, 2012 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2012 at 7:12 pm by Abracadabra.)
(February 5, 2012 at 6:35 pm)RW_9 Wrote: I was just trying to understand your perspective, nothing more.
Well, unfortunately that doesn't appear to have been very successful.
But thanks, for trying.
(February 5, 2012 at 6:36 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: You want to make friends on this forum...dont slander science. Its the one thing (other than godlessness) that keeps most of us together.
Well, again, that's your total misunderstanding of position.
I've been a scientist my entire life. I LOVE science and mathematics!
Isaac Newton was my early childhood hero. Albert Einstein became my hero as I become more educated. I still admire both of these men tremendously. Along with Maxwell, Feynmann, Sagan, you name a scientist and I'm probably a fan of him or her. Especially physicists and cosmologists.
I'm simply a very practical person. Science (as much as I love it) has limitations. That's a fact, like it or not.
It's the truth that Quantum Mechanics predicts that we will never be able to make precise quantitative predictions at certain levels of reality. That is a scientific fact. No point in pretending that it's not.
Just because you love science is no reason to pretend that it can do more than it can or that it's invincible.
I have not in any way put science down. I'm just practical enough to fess up to the reality of its limitations. I don't pretend that it's perfect, flawless, and invincible.
That would be a naive position to take, IMHO.
The very idea that science is absolutely guaranteed to provide every possible answer to the true nature of reality given enough time and tenacity is itself an unreasonable pipe dream.
There is nothing in all of science that guarantees that this will be the case.
Besides, it's not like I'm suggesting that we should cease to pursue the sciences. I'm all for scientific research! My entire library is filled with nothing but books and videos on science and math.
Ok, I almost forgot, I do have a few books on witchcraft. But I don't even keep them on the same shelves with the science books. I only have a few specific books on witchcraft and I kept them in a special altar.
Yes, I realize that you may be thinking, "What? Witchcraft and science? Is this guy a nut or what?"
Hey, I'm telling you that they are far more compatible than you realize.
And evidently that's what seems to be lost in these discussions.
Christian - A moron who believes that an all-benevolent God can simultaneously be a hateful jealous male-chauvinistic pig.
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
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Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
~~~~~
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
