Building on faith, IMO, is like building on sand... at the first sign of
rain, your house begins to sink... but you cannot admit it... so instead
you reinforce your faith, and your house sinks even farther... eventually
you are living BENEATH the ground, and no-one can ever convince you that's
bad...
ERiC
List,
Good understanding, bad reasoning (and a little biased against "faith").
The only thing one learns from destroying is how to destroy. The house
might stand, being divided against itself, but it will sink if there is no
grounding which is not divided against itself (as sand is divided from
itself). "Faith" may be the basis by which one chooses the foundation, but
"fundamentalism" is the ignorance of a "faith" against which one cannot
argue. There are justifications for saying that a house must "stand" (that
is that the walls must be divided against themselves...assuming empty space
in all but the corners so that they can be maintained "as" walls and not as
a solid material upon which one might build but within which one cannot
live)...there are justifications and so it is said that "In my father's
house ther are many mansions". Still, the idea is to build upon the faith
and to live within the walls. (not to divide the faith and become a wall).
Brett
At 04:51 PM 11/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Brett Lane Robertson <unameit@tctc.com> wrote:
>
>> I assume that you are wise and that I am missing something.
>> But, if science wants to have something which is falsifiable,
>> then theory cannot provide that. When you say that a thought
>> experiment provides an idea for the scientific experiment, I
>> see you saying that the philosopher must provide for his own
>> undoing. (The psychologist, by the way would be providing for
>> his own psychological "complex" such that there is unresolved
>> obsession--thought--and compulsion--experiment...assuming here
>> that "complex" is the same as a psychological disorder). So
>> to be a scientist, the philosopher/psychologist must negate
>> himself to death. Here's the problem.
>
>This is exactly what I said in my last message, too -- science is house
>which is DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. *THAT* is why it stands so well. Jesus
>once said that you must build your house on the rock if you wish it to
>withstand the storm -- he was right, but in this world, the only way to be
>sure you HAVE ROCK is to try everything in your power to destroy it. If it
>survives, then it's rock, and you can feel safe building on it.
>
>Building on faith, IMO, is like building on sand... at the first sign of
>rain, your house begins to sink... but you cannot admit it... so instead
>you reinforce your faith, and your house sinks even farther... eventually
>you are living BENEATH the ground, and no-one can ever convince you that's
>bad...
>
>ERiC
>
Returning,
rBERTS%n
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