Quote from: lisagurl on July 23, 2009, 10:19:27 AM
Not multiple answers but multiple relative viewing points, and only one answer . We would have to be in a different dimension to view a point from all angles at once at the same time.
Only one answer? Hmm, that seems a rather pervasive human desire; that there be but
one answer.
Trouble with that is:
QuoteSo was God enlightened? How about the dinosaurs? When did this enlightenment start? When did humans start? You can not discuss things without including it all. That is making false walls.
How to include "it all" when, as someone likes to say, one is a bear of very little brain? And for that matter, a bear of very little experience when it comes right to the point.
Is the experience, for instance, of reading and processing Dr. Robert James Bakker's
The Dinosaur Heresies a means to entering the reality of dinosaurs? Not one, but every dinosaur that ever inhabited the planet? If that can be done, why would getting at that through Dr. Bakker's book be anymore a valid way of understanding dinosaur realities than would watching
The Land Before Time?
The brain-in-a-jug argument intervenes somewhere about here, I think.
Then we move along to
Deity. Mother forfend! That brings an entirely different and very imaginative set of realities or reality to the fore. O my!
Shall we enter that set of realities through
The Holy Bible (many believe that they may,)
Brihadaranaka Upanishad, the
Magnificent Koran, Sjoo and Mor's
The Great Cosmic Mother,
physics(good grief, which one? Newton's Einstein's Bohr's, Pythagorus' or some other, goodness knows physics remains static always, right?), Lanza's & Berman's,
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe or just through the apprehension of a single entity's (yours or mine, or someone else's) perception, consciousness and mental facility?
Choose one and declare it's
The Reality. The one reality that we seek and see how quickly the reality becomes that you cannot do that and obtain even the least agreement amongst two, let alone three minds.
I am at a loss just how we proceed, seemingly having run up against a wall of individual insistence on how that one reality looks, feels and smells to this bear of very little brain.
O, I do, however accept tekla's statement that
just because you not thinking its real, does not change the laws of physics. That's pretty easily proveable: step out onto this three-story high ledge with me and step off. If physics doesn't have some worth and reality then you and I both should be able to walk safely three or four feet out into what appears to be air alone and return unscathed.
