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To: Greg or e who wrote (34039)	3/9/2013 3:25:40 PM
From: Solon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 69300

"Philosophy is dead" is itself a philosophical statement." Nonsense. You are simply pretending that every statement is philosophical. For instance, "my cat is dead". Perhaps if you study higher education for a dozen years or so and write hundreds of Scientific publications and books and get lauded by your peers all over the world--perhaps then I will consider your flippant dismissals of great human teachers as something I should be concerned with! The fact that the great discoveries and teachings of these Masters in their respective fields DO provoke controversy and argument is simply evidence that they take their Mastery to the leading edge of their disciplines. It has often been said that there is more to the truth than just the facts. And when philosophers were also world class scientists, they were able to bring new facts into existence and enlarge our idea of what is Truth. However, in modern theoretical physics, Scientists and philosophers have developed a chasm of separation. Most philosophers have not kept pace with Science--and they add absolutely nothing to the dictum that there is "more to the truth than just the facts". Indeed...they are more clueless about the FACTS than they ever were! So how can they possibly pretend to move beyond what Science has explored and discovered through sense experience?? This is what Hawking meant. Philosophy used to be the efforts of the best thinkers expanding the horizons of human thought and knowledge in terms of what actually constitutes Reality and Existence (and Knowledge, itself). They used to use the FACTS to suggest the unknown. Now they use fictions and ignorance to suggest the unknown. At least...most of them do. "Philosophy is dead" is more provocative than "philosophy is in a coma"! Your flippant dismissal of Hawking, Dawkins, and Krauss makes you either a genius in several disciplines--and certainly more qualified than these recognised authorities with all their awards -g-...or it makes you an uneducated little man nobody has ever heard of who has never written a book or advanced knowledge in any field! I believe you said you were a Sunday School Teacher?! YES?? NO?? And this qualifies you to over-ride the opinions of experts...HOW?? "You are repeating your bigoted response" There was no bigotry in my response. Having an opinion about superstition is not bigotry. Believing that superstition is irrational, uneducated, and foolish is not bigotry. But hey! You got off your Christian insults to derail the discussion! Good on you!!

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