Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 6, 2018 21:10:13 GMT
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, a scientific version of an ancient idea that goes back to the Tao, is basically that not everything can be known.
Secularists and Theists make the same mistake--they attempt to make absolutes concrete (God is the creator of everything, a single atom is the final source of everything). Any time you define an absolute you can question it (where did God come from, why does that atom have such and such characteristics), if you can question it, how can it be absolute? An absolute would have to be, by definition, a final answer. Classic Eastern religions leave the ultimate as a mystery (mysticism) to avoid that problem.
I think George Carlin's Religion is Bullshit skit is funny but he dumbs down the reason why people turn to religion.
If your child is tortured to death by someone, it is pretty difficult to get them to cope by saying "well it was just a machine that is shut off."
Secularists and Theists make the same mistake--they attempt to make absolutes concrete (God is the creator of everything, a single atom is the final source of everything). Any time you define an absolute you can question it (where did God come from, why does that atom have such and such characteristics), if you can question it, how can it be absolute? An absolute would have to be, by definition, a final answer. Classic Eastern religions leave the ultimate as a mystery (mysticism) to avoid that problem.
I think George Carlin's Religion is Bullshit skit is funny but he dumbs down the reason why people turn to religion.
If your child is tortured to death by someone, it is pretty difficult to get them to cope by saying "well it was just a machine that is shut off."