RE: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:35:36 -0000
> From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> We are well on a way to understanding
> some of the immense history of what is here, no thanks to faith or
> theology, thenk yew veddy much.
>
If you look into the history of ideas, I think you'll
find that, just as the sciences developed from
philosophy, so objective thinking in general
developed from theological-type thinking. So it's
a great deal of thanks to faith and theology,
thank you. Essential precursors, I'd call them.
And, as with philosophy, without precognition
there's no way to be sure that they have no
more to offer us. (Unless you're content to be
prejudiced, of course.) A good analogy is
where pharmaceutical chemists find the
active ingredient in genuinely effective folk
remedies. Religion is a goldmine for various
disciplines, as well as being of real benefit
to many of its practitioners.
> Love is confusion, anyway.
>
"Love" can mean lots of things, but I find at
least one form of it to be highly compatible with
a very lucid state of mind.
Robin