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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rick Julian who wrote (35691)	4/23/1999 7:24:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

"I guarantee their explanations will bear no resemblance to reality." How can you guarantee any such thing, if you don't know Jack?....:-)) And why do you see intellectual posturing and preening where others might see ordinary intellectual curiosity, which comes naturally to the human animal? After all, the child's first question is "why?" Any scholar/thinker/scientist/etc. worth his salt retains a healthy skepticism about his own findings/discoveries/hypotheses, and has enough humility to recognize that his word will not be the last on the subject. Still, there is a difference between "facts", which are at least in theory determinable, and "feelings". In other words, we may be able to determine that the Trojan War took place. But we will never be able to determine why it took place, or what the motivations of the principals were. We will speculate about it, of course -- it is in our nature to speculate -- but we will know that is what we are doing. And ironically, we just might hit on the right answer(s), without ever knowing that we have done so. Joan

To: Rick Julian who wrote (35691)	4/24/1999 5:53:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I heartily agree with your post, Karma. I do think we get things right sometimes, but often get them wrong, as well. In the sciences we are just at the beginning of understanding how things work, or what life was like in the past. That is just the way things are, and I accept reality pretty well. What is harder to accept is the pretense of those scientists, particularly archaeologists in my recent discussions, who only build on the assumptions of the last wrong guy, and refuse to dig any deeper because they don't want to stir anything up.