Alternate/Parallel Universes

[The Nihilist]

You may very well be.

Actually, I did get the chance to read some of Newbergs writings today, mostly his paper on forgiveness, but I did skim over a couple of other papers. He is studying some very cutting edge and interesting stuff. However, one thing that I noticed is that he often uses the term correlative at least in his writing on forgiveness. Could it be that belief in God could be correlative?

You ought to look into some epistemology. I've struggled with epistemology often. I listened to the cognitive science class mp3s from MIT's OpenCourseWare. I learned a ton, but most cognitive scientists don't have a clue about the philosophical epistemology Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas. I read a lot of them with some type of derivative of Kant's thinking. Most, it seems, only know very little about the problems with the theories they seem to hold. But neither here, nor there

When I get a chance to look the rest of Newberg's papers, I'll try to post here and put down my thoughts on a new thread.

I read Critique of Pure Reason, and that was interesting, but honestly, I never really cared for Epistemology. It was just never one of the problems that bothered me. Wasn't that how Socrates described philosophy, like a hornet that was harrassing him, and the only way he could make it go away quit bugging him for a while was by pursuing inquiry? Epistemology never stung me.

 

[WingsOfTheNeophyte]

Some issues are just not directly addressed in the Bible because the ideas were too advanced for the people to understand.

However, I recall that Jesus would say, "The Kingdom is at hand." Perhaps he was making reference to a plane which resonates on a much higher level than ours, the place in which God's Kingdom resides.

And on the other side of the coin, it's possible that hell is on a lower plane of existence.

This would mean that becoming a Godly, loving person IS absolutely necessary to make one's way into heaven because you would need that good, loving energy in your soul in order to pass through to this other plane of existence once you are no longer physically tied to this world.

I personally feel like the deeper you get into science, the more it reaffirms religion, because of the intricate, complicated ways every thing relates to one another.

For a little background on M theory/String theory(which suggests the existence of other realities) that's put in terms normal people understand, you can go here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/parallelunitrans.shtml

I agree with you almost completely

(Apart from that there is even a hell)


Did you come up with this on your own, or did you take preexisting theories?

Perhaps he was making reference to a plane which resonates on a much higher level than ours, the place in which God's Kingdom resides.

This sounds very familiar, any specific source you can name?


I ask because, the link you provided on the M-Theory and strings, talks absolutely nothing about higher vibrations

Neither do any forms of mainstream Christianity

What makes you suggest something like this?

 

[fuzzyh]

One day you'll get stung. I started into Epistemology because I think we need at least some sense of epistemology to have a systematic thought.

Of course, Socrates once said that we all ought to get married. If you find a good wife, you are happy. If you get a bad wife you become a philosopher.