A zen koan: what is the color of 3?How many angels can fit on the head of a pin? The tragedy of western philosophy is that it is fixated with questions that don't matter.
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A zen koan: what is the color of 3?How many angels can fit on the head of a pin? The tragedy of western philosophy is that it is fixated with questions that don't matter.
A zen koan: what is the color of 3?
Yes, because the US constitution - a document built upon 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use. Because the scientific method - a set of principles and methods developed over 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use.Isn't the purpose of a koan to help you think differently? That's pretty cool.
The purpose of much of western philosophy is to accumulate knowledge that has no practical use.
Yes, because the US constitution - a document built upon 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use. Because the scientific method - a set of principles and methods developed over 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use.
Oh wait...
Westerns divide things, eastern combine things as "one"Isn't the purpose of a koan to help you think differently? That's pretty cool.
The purpose of much of western philosophy is to accumulate knowledge that has no practical use.
Yes, because the US constitution - a document built upon 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use. Because the scientific method - a set of principles and methods developed over 4000 years of Western philosophy - has no practical use.
Oh wait...
Yes: every single scientific and medical advancement is a contribution from Western philosophy.These are useful things but they're a few hundred years old. Can you think of any recent contributions from western philosophy?
All of human language has no practical use. Thats the meaning of totally deprived that makes Calvinist ring true.
Thats the reason for the 'ah ha !" moment but can't be explained to another humans.
Most are every day people and will never clear their minds enough to see that God is the ruler and creates time /space that you live in.
Free willers deny time/space and think they're ruler of the universe where time begins with them.
In other words, God is much faster than you think. Too fast to be explained in everyday human language.
Another Koan, "Who am I?"
Thats why the Elects have to be quiet and let the arminians run on their own natural course they were born with, sin
Yes: every single scientific and medical advancement is a contribution from Western philosophy.
More generally, new technology has broached new subjects in philosophy, including serious contemplations about our place in the universe (did you know the concept of a galaxy is only about a century old?), about the nature of first contact with an alien civilisation, about the ethics and politics of colonising space, about what it would mean to call ourselves a 'species' if our extinct cousins were around, or if the human species were to change, etc.
In morality, the very concept of human rights is a major development in ethical and inter-political thinking, one which arose out of the atrocities of World War 2. More recent still, that we now have the capability to wipe out all human life has also prompted new thinking in the ethics of not merely genocide, but omnicide. More recent still, the realisation that our industry is aggressively destroying the habitability of the planet has also broached new ground in the philosophy of the limits of human sovereignty.
In mathematics, we continue to expand our understanding of the very fundamental concepts of logic, shape, and number. The existence of personal computing means that problems in algorithm and function, as well as intractible but model-able mathematical problems, are being explored. These have uses in all things scientific, from allowing the construction of the LHC to improving our understanding of biology (e.g., knowing how proteins folds brings us closer to a cure for Alzheimer's).
And this is just those advancements in Western philosophy that have yielded direct and obvious practical results. Philosophy for its own sake, such as (for good or ill) logical positivism, has also advanced.
I know this is an old post, but I decided to chime in because I have interest in this subject.
It seems to me that the idea of dimensions is a manmade concept that allows for us to understand the Universe in an organized fashion. Let's pretend that humans were never created, and God exists alone. There would be no labeling of dimensions, no contemplating about parallel universes and all that jazz. Could it be that our understanding is limited by our cursed nature. To God I would think everything exists in 1 place in reality. But to humans it just looks like there are nth number of dimensions because we don't understand creation like God does. It may be all one creation, but God doesn't allow us to see the whole picture, Giving the illusion to us that there are these mysterious extra dimensions that we don't know about. But in reality, they are very normal to God. Just some thoughts on that.
As humans we live in a 3 dimensional world. In quantum physics it is accepted that 11 dimensions is the maximum you can get up to. Would it make sense then, that if we have a God who observes us, he lives one level up in the 4th dimension, with the 4th dimension being time, which would make us nothing more than a sculpture to him. This would mean he can see the beginning and the end of time at any point. It would also mean are futures are determined, and that we don't have free will.
It also raises the question of whether God has a God above him...
This link nicely explains dimensions in case you are baffled: YouTube
And if god made us in his physical image then he has a penis, testicles, and nipples, just as we do. And that makes no sense as I really doubt he reproduces as we do, and I doubt he would have any more use for nipples than human males do.
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In other words, God is much faster than you think. Too fast to be explained in everyday human language.
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He was, however, utterly opposed to humans piercing their glorbnax.Maybe he thought nipple piercings looked awesome?
Can't have that without a nipple!
My pet hypothesis is that the Hebrews said God made X on day Y to emphasise the 'steps' of creation - stuff on the first day was made before the stuff on the second day. I don't think the Hebrews meant it to be taken as six literal consecutive 24-hour periods.Not really, it took him days to create the earth. A day is a time unit understood by all of us.
As well, he created the heavens in one day. (Luckily all he had to do was create a bunch of little lights, or it would have taken a lot longer considering it took days just to create the earth.
He was, however, utterly opposed to humans piercing their glorbnax.
My pet hypothesis is that the Hebrews said God made X on day Y to emphasise the 'steps' of creation - stuff on the first day was made before the stuff on the second day. I don't think the Hebrews meant it to be taken as six literal consecutive 24-hour periods.
On the other hand, I believe the Hebrews genuinely thought the world was a few thousand years old. It kinda sorta makes sense that with their rich oral tradition, the names and deeds of long-dead ancestors would be half remembered - Adam, Abraham, Moses, Noah, etc - and humans' tendency to exaggerate would inflate their minor deeds (survived a flood in his boat) to major ones (survive a flood of the whole world in his boat that carried every animal ever). These ancestors would genuinely stretch back through some hundreds or thousands of years, hence the conclusion drawn by Bishop Ussher.
The universe is a hologram and everything you can see - including this article and the device you are reading it on - is a mere projection.
This is according to a controversial model proposed in 1997 by theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena.
Until now the bizarre theory had never been tested, but recent mathematical models suggest that the mind-boggling principle could be true.