tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277879.post109484006408144297..comments2004-12-14T23:41:13.170-05:00Comments on SevenPillarsWisdom: Clash of Civilisationsjimbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04722146032060321695noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277879.post-1103085673169796942004-12-14T23:41:00.000-05:002004-12-14T23:41:00.000-05:00The problem with many (not all) religious people i...The problem with many (not all) religious people is they mistake faith for knowledge. These people think they know the answer. They think it is revealed in the bible or the koran or the vedas or the torah or whatever, in its entirety. But faith isn't knowledge and it shouldn't lead to certainity. Faith is a virtue, and like all virtues it comes with risks and difficulties. If you have the answers, life is easy. If you have faith, its hard. Most people opt for the easy way.Angry Agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085971819160633206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277879.post-1103084578913624022004-12-14T23:22:00.000-05:002004-12-14T23:22:00.000-05:00The world is chaos? I don't believe it is. I thi...The world is chaos? I don't believe it is. I think there is more to it than we can understand, and that makes it seem chaotic. It is like the levels of complexity fromg Gallileo to Newton to Einstein. Each was correct at the level they were able to address. Gallileo's physics worked on a human level. Newton's worked at a galactic level. Einstein was more correct at the atomic/planetary level. Modern physics is taking it farther. Do they negate each other? No, they each have built a better picture...on the shoulders of giants. So it is not chaos that a butterfly creates a hurricane, but it is a system we cannot account for with our limitations.<br /><br />We can always strive to expand our limits of understanding. We can try to understand people, if not countries. We can realize we all are just people trying to make it through a world we cannot understand.jimbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04722146032060321695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277879.post-1098529621219582232004-10-23T06:07:00.000-05:002004-10-23T06:07:00.000-05:00The world is chaos and our trying to understand it...The world is chaos and our trying to understand it is what makes us kill each other.<br /><br />Maybe?RuKsaKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028767935860200252noreply@blogger.com