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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bull_derrick who wrote (22209)	11/5/2004 10:01:29 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 23153

Posters, I doubt, based on experience, that a religious conversation concerning particular beliefs and belief systems will make any progress, enlighten anyone or clarify any issues. So I suggest we drop it. Matters of faith, whether they are in terms of birth & rebirth, how many gods the Hindus actually need to have, the quest of the historical Lord Buddha, whether shamanistic practices, feng shui and voodoo can really protect your restaurant and hearth, the actual time period of Genesis or the square and cubic footage of the Ark--these are all, like the ways of God to Job, incomprehensible to man. One will note that early Hindu belief (about 2500 years ago) held that the universe was so vast that it was immeasurable and that the tiniest piece could be broken down a million times smaller than we could see but that when we got there there would be no matter, simply vibrations. These, of course, to competing and later faith systems, were often seen as ridiculous ideas (think of the Greeks and their constellations, or the Zarathustrians, or Zoroastrians, or Egyptians or Jews), but of course now they seem to be being proved, or indicated, by quantum physics. Brownian Motion and Chaos Theory can only be "explained" on a quantum basis, and if one really looks into modern physics ("hard" science) you find it is a belief system where many things need to be taken on faith as well. Particles, or waves? Either is a leap of faith, holding both in your mind (puny little mind of Man) is a contradiction. Kb