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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Theology and Philosophy are useful tools to decide what questions to ask though.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
HUH?
It is a good tool to answer some questions related to the mechanics and engineering of reality.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Science can tell us why chairs hold us off the floor but not where to sit; how our brain functions but not what to think.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Only personal opinion can tell us where to sit or what to think although certain tools such as theology and philosophy can help us determine what questions are important to ask.
The problem is that the term "why" has so many possible nuances that I think this thread is pretty much doomed from the gitgo.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
No it is not a science problem.
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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What is observed?
How can science observe why I think something?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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So you assert.
Science can investigate the mechanics but that is all, it is still not the "why".Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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I have explained what I mean, why can't you understand it?
You can the investigate the mechanics but not the actual why. As I mentioned above that is the reason this thread is ultimately futile; the actual meaning of "why" is so totally ambiguous as to make this whole effort just irrelevant. Why is as unrelated to the mechanism as art is to the medium used; as unrelated to the unique appreciation of a musical passage is to the mechanism of the medium used to play the passage.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
If it is not a question of the mechanics behind a phenomena, then what is it? It is the phenomena itself.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The mechanics of why the sky is blue is easy to explain and certainly within the province of science.
Why I like a blue sky is personal to me and the moment.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
That is still just the mechanics.
Sure we can study how a hammer is made, but the process is not the hammer.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I'm suggesting that the causes are not the preference.
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I'm saying that no matter how much you study the hammer it is still not the hammer itself.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Too funny.
You can investigate all you want but it will still not be the preference itself. You can investigate the hammer all you want but it will still never be the hammer itself. You can investigate love all you want but it will never be the experience itself. ...Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I think it is an important difference that should be noted.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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