Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Mortals - forever confined to inner space?
( Online forum nationalforum.net.au)
My question If its in our minds, can we exorcise it? - the clay, acting as author ?
John Warren may be right about our minds natural ability to create and entrench god ideas in our worldviews and cultural heritage .
I get the strange feelng, though, listening to all this desire for a simple rationale for what is really still beyond us , that we are taking our limited understanding of ourselves a little too seriously; "if we say we know, when we still don't know,its wrong- Are we not for example asserting- we are and there is none other."
I'm reminded by the general tone of this discussion of those early Russian cosmonauts who, having arrived at space before all other comers, and as reps of the great reductionist culture of the 20 century declaring "He's not here , therefore He's not there".
Maybe, when we collectively behave like children, we should agree to wonder at the real limits of our knowledge, our arrogance instead of the more productive element of humility -scientific humility.
When we believe like children ( even as geochemists) paradoxically a few of us can still only wonder and be willing to consider the possibility of worship . Maybe too, if it is in the blood, maybe none of us can exorcise it? After all , whatever it is, its a strong force to work its magic so effectively all those eons. Who are we to presume control over its creative power .
My question If its in our minds, can we exorcise it? - the clay, acting as author ?
John Warren may be right about our minds natural ability to create and entrench god ideas in our worldviews and cultural heritage .
I get the strange feelng, though, listening to all this desire for a simple rationale for what is really still beyond us , that we are taking our limited understanding of ourselves a little too seriously; "if we say we know, when we still don't know,its wrong- Are we not for example asserting- we are and there is none other."
I'm reminded by the general tone of this discussion of those early Russian cosmonauts who, having arrived at space before all other comers, and as reps of the great reductionist culture of the 20 century declaring "He's not here , therefore He's not there".
Maybe, when we collectively behave like children, we should agree to wonder at the real limits of our knowledge, our arrogance instead of the more productive element of humility -scientific humility.
When we believe like children ( even as geochemists) paradoxically a few of us can still only wonder and be willing to consider the possibility of worship . Maybe too, if it is in the blood, maybe none of us can exorcise it? After all , whatever it is, its a strong force to work its magic so effectively all those eons. Who are we to presume control over its creative power .
