RE: New Age woo, pantheism, "connected"
March 13, 2015 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 10:10 am by JuliaL.)
(March 13, 2015 at 8:42 am)Brian37 Wrote: I will restate what I always do. You can believe whatever you want, that human right is a matter of human rights only, still has nothing to do with your ability to demonstrate the credibility of what you claim, on any subject. Thing that are universal as far as knowledge don't have to be sold or defended, those things are tested and have the shit kicked out of them. If they pass that test it is a fact all of humanity has. If it does not, then the wise thing to do is to drop it and move on.
Methinks we will continue to misunderstand one another.
All knowledge must be continually defended as knowledge is always considered subject to further refinement by future experience.
My comment was intended to explain my prediction that there will always be some point where investigation fails. Because we cannot see what lies beyond, even if nothing does and barring omniscience, we will never know what is out there. For example, perhaps we will find that the missing mass of the universe is explained by the existence of tiny, invisible, massive crustaceans. Where did they come from? Cern found the Higgs particle and filled in a hole in an explanatory and predictive model but did not inform as to the reality of what mass is. Ontology is really much more difficult than many of us realize.
(March 13, 2015 at 8:29 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm not seeing any lines of demarcation between things. How can you be so sure that everything is discrete? How do you identify one sensible body from another? Don't bother answering...as an atheist your answers won't make any sense.
You only have circumstantial evidence that more than one sensible body exists. Only theory of mind grants the existence of others.
It is the same theory of mind that, in my view, inappropriately extrapolates without repeatable evidence the existence of an uber-mind labeled 'God.'
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
