Re: Life after death
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:54 am
Kevin,
Causality is necessary to understand the world of interacting things, but if the ‘thing’ at its most fundamental level has no concrete essence or substance, then that is very queer… Have you ever wondered why so many quantum physicists were naturally attracted to subjects such as mysticism, Epistemology, and other philosophical concepts after their research?
It’s probably because if you dive down that rabbit hole far enough, the entire foundation of materialist assumptions about the nature of reality is ripped into pieces…
Moreover, the atheist secularist community refuses to go there because if they do, they must also face the possibility that the materialist ideology that they so firmly subscribe to could be a falsehood. My concern is that an ideology severs ones connection from the infinite, from emptiness, and it doesn’t matter what type of ideology it is…If you fully subscribe to it with all your heart, there is a danger there - a danger of dulling ones sharpness of perception with a filter of belief.
Have you ever wondered why you’re so attached to materialist thinking?It could happen that, tomorrow, someone discovers that what you thought was "empty space" is in fact teeming with previously undetected and extremely small particles. That would blow your ideas about "empty space" out of the water.
Everything happens by cause and effect, so there's nothing "queer" about our Universe, not even in the quantum realm.
Causality is necessary to understand the world of interacting things, but if the ‘thing’ at its most fundamental level has no concrete essence or substance, then that is very queer… Have you ever wondered why so many quantum physicists were naturally attracted to subjects such as mysticism, Epistemology, and other philosophical concepts after their research?
It’s probably because if you dive down that rabbit hole far enough, the entire foundation of materialist assumptions about the nature of reality is ripped into pieces…
Moreover, the atheist secularist community refuses to go there because if they do, they must also face the possibility that the materialist ideology that they so firmly subscribe to could be a falsehood. My concern is that an ideology severs ones connection from the infinite, from emptiness, and it doesn’t matter what type of ideology it is…If you fully subscribe to it with all your heart, there is a danger there - a danger of dulling ones sharpness of perception with a filter of belief.