shawn
Well-Known Member
Reality is far more fantastic than anything that unaided human imagination could ever devise.
For example: the mind could not visualize a new color, such as infrared or ultraviolet.
It can only manipulate combinations of elements that it has already experienced.
Everything that is truly new can only come from the Universe(or multiverse) outside.
And uncovering the truth that is out there is of course, the function of science.
What is knowledge?
True knowledge, of reality as it is, as opposed to how it might appear to be or how one might wish it to be?
What is the only system of thought that has been developed that is effective in distinguishing fact from fallacy, truth from myth, and reality from delusion?
Science.
All the truths we know, as opposed to beliefs which some choose blindly to adopt (as if the strength of their convictions could affect facts) have been revealed by the rational processes of applied scientific method.
Science alone yields a basis for the formulation of beliefs whose validity can be proved because they predict results that can be tested.
And yet,
for thousands of years,
the races of earth have clung persistently to their cults, their superstitions, their irrational dogmas and their impotent idols.
They refused to accept what their eyes alone should have told them:
That the magical and mystical forces in which they trusted and which they aspired to command......WERE FICTIONS, barren in their yield of results, powerless in prediction and devoid of any useful application.
In a word, they were worthless, which of course, made any consequences harmless.
And this, from a particular viewpoint, constituted a remarkably convenient situation.
Too convenient to be merely a coincidence
But we know that it was not merely a coincidence.
Far from it.
We remember.
Those of you reading can also remember.
Then you too will also know.
Anamnesis.
For example: the mind could not visualize a new color, such as infrared or ultraviolet.
It can only manipulate combinations of elements that it has already experienced.
Everything that is truly new can only come from the Universe(or multiverse) outside.
And uncovering the truth that is out there is of course, the function of science.
What is knowledge?
True knowledge, of reality as it is, as opposed to how it might appear to be or how one might wish it to be?
What is the only system of thought that has been developed that is effective in distinguishing fact from fallacy, truth from myth, and reality from delusion?
Science.
All the truths we know, as opposed to beliefs which some choose blindly to adopt (as if the strength of their convictions could affect facts) have been revealed by the rational processes of applied scientific method.
Science alone yields a basis for the formulation of beliefs whose validity can be proved because they predict results that can be tested.
And yet,
for thousands of years,
the races of earth have clung persistently to their cults, their superstitions, their irrational dogmas and their impotent idols.
They refused to accept what their eyes alone should have told them:
That the magical and mystical forces in which they trusted and which they aspired to command......WERE FICTIONS, barren in their yield of results, powerless in prediction and devoid of any useful application.
In a word, they were worthless, which of course, made any consequences harmless.
And this, from a particular viewpoint, constituted a remarkably convenient situation.
Too convenient to be merely a coincidence
But we know that it was not merely a coincidence.
Far from it.
We remember.
Those of you reading can also remember.
Then you too will also know.
Anamnesis.