Reasons only take us so far, They can build a bomb or fuel a car. But can it give us back our hearts? Mine is bleeding, injured, sore, All this death, what more?
Nascent in the heart of us, under crust, Quiet, waiting, patient, for the day When each of us can learn to trust And have love in our hearts to stay.
This simple cause, to play love straight, To follow the golden rule without cheating, We'd break the cycle of all the hate, And maybe stop the mistakes repeating.
Naive, maybe, but worth a try, I'll keep saying it until I die. There's no liberty with freedom to love, Freedom to trust, the cause of the dove.
We either interact as adult peers, juvenile peers, or from a corresponing position of inequality within that interaction (as a parent or as a child).
These are the same no matter what sort of relationship you're dealing with, be it a professional or personal dynamic. And yes, adults can act like children within these systems if they are somehow placed in a superior or inferior role. Take your relationship with your boss. And then imagine a codependent relationship. The same inequality exists within the system dymanic.
My dad always told me that the only frontiers left for people like me (pioneer stock) were outer space and inner space (the mind). Outer space was impractical, and inner space can be scary.
I figure I could add a thing or two to that list, like the ocean, the heart, and various others, but I think his advice is what inspired me to become a writer. I can go anywhere in my fiction and poetry, because I'm the one that gets to make the rules.
The Hudson part of my clan came over from the Hudson River area, but my grandfather Thompson came across in a covered wagon from Kansas. So yeah, I would not be at all surprised.
I'm in because I'm working, or at least pretending to. Gotta' get those TPS reports out. (reference to the movie Office Space, for those who don't already know)
Your argument is reasonable, but I question your motivation. I assume your an intelligent guy, and thats all well and good, but in reality your dogma is ultimately as subjective as anyone elses.
You can question the value of anothers faith as much as you like, but ultimately, you're there, by yourself, twisting semantics to justify your own methodologies.
It's as self-serving as anyone elses beliefs. Isn't sophistry grand?
You have faith that there is no value to faith, or at least that is my inference from what you have said. So, wherein lies the value of your faith in skepticism? To make your beliefs seem superior to everyone elses?
That is intellectual arrogance. And a contradiction. You can't have your faith and eat it too.
When you have enough humility to have an open mind, then we will have something meaningful to talk about. Until then, your insistence on pure science is as fanatical as a fundamentalists insistence on the literal interpretation of *insert title of holy book of choice here*.
Because they work does not mean we fully understand why. Today the universe is, in model form, a bran muffin. Tomorrow the vision of reality might require us to think of it in terms of a piece of cheesecake. Paradigm shifts are like that.
Models and formulas are ultimately metaphors. The equation is not the thing in itself, nor is the model anymore than a visual aid for us to understand how things work. I'm not saying the hypotheses equal nothing. I'm saying the true nature of the universe is infinitely more than what we can imagine, and therefore impossible for our rational minds to understand. Therein lies the value of faith. I have faith my car will start in the morning, or that when I flip the lightswitch, illumination will be mine. I don't understand the full nature of how either thing works, but I have faith that they will.
"Something unknown is doing we don't know what."-Sir Arthur Eddington
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