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Tevai
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Date: June 28, 2018 07:00PM
Badassadam1 Wrote:
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> That's bullshit jonny.
Adam:
As gently as I can write, one of the important parts of recovery is learning that people who are good, intelligent, and knowledgeable can honestly and sincerely disagree with each other on a seemingly endless list of subjects.
Once upon at time, many people (especially those who were a part of Western Civilization) thought they (at least potentially) could understand "everything"...that there was nothing which would not be (at least eventually) available to the brains of human beings, and nothing that could not be understood in its entirety by human beings.
However, in the past couple of hundred years, and with increasing speed, we human beings have learned that not only can we NOT understand and comprehend "everything," but each new and genuine step forward in comprehension and understanding leads us to ever MORE uncertainties and MORE "unknowns" for us to work on in the future.
I've spent the last months going through books and papers (like scientific abstracts) which were published beginning in the 1880s or so, and many of them are chockfull of "scientific facts" that we now know are no such thing (including the advice and research data from seemingly endless numbers of self-help, and self-instruction, books which were published, beginning in the 1920s).
The educated, "proven," and often "scientific" wisdom of one generation is the laugh of the generations which follow.
What is to be learned from this reality is that, no matter what we actually DO learn, full knowledge and wisdom will still be ahead of us (like a carrot hanging from the headpiece of a plowing horse). The horse never reaches the carrot...and in many ways, neither do we.
What we absolutely, scientifically "know" today will be laughed at in 3018, 4018, and 5018 (assuming that our species is fortunate enough to get to those years).
There are many people here who, after usually considerable reading and reflection, are atheists. There are many people in the world whose actual RELIGION is atheistic (Buddhism, for example).
There are also many theists of different kinds, throughout the world and on this board.
It is not the "answer" to the question ("Is there a God?," for example) which counts, because whatever answer any individual decides is the "right" one for them is likely to be upended by increased understanding, and more data, in the century or centuries to come.
In Mormonism, a "wrong" answer means that YOU are "wrong."
In the world outside of Mormonism, however, a seeming "wrong" answer is simply an announcement that a new phase of learning has begun...an opportunity to learn through honestly searching debate, research, and reflection.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2018 07:03PM by Tevai.