[Matchett-PI]

"...The fact is I am losing patience with trying to engage with people who do not live in the same world that I do, who speak an entirely different language, who think like machines. (I am not a machine!) This being the case, real communication is impossible. ..."

"When we talk about "the degrees of knowledge," we implicitly acknowledge the degrees of being that correspond to them. .....

"What is necessary above all is "to discriminate and discern degrees of knowing, its organization and its internal differentiations....

"....a shallow soul is satisfied by staying on the surface of things. The deep soul knows that no merely scientific explanation can ever satisfy man, whereas the shallow soul seems content to play in the little blandbox of efficient causes. .....

"[What we need is something] capable of speaking to our age of stupidity."

bttt

[betty boop]

...any form of scientism ... is a non-starter, because it reduces the hierarchical complexity of the world to a vulgar monism. In so doing, it reduces reality to our most simple way of knowing it, and in the process denies any reality outside its narrow scope. "Leveling" ... is the barbarian's substitute for order.

In the past, I have discussed the idea that the measure of soul is depth. To put it bluntly, a developed soul will see much more deeply into the nature of reality, whereas a shallow soul is satisfied by staying on the surface of things. The deep soul knows that no merely scientific explanation can ever satisfy man, whereas the shallow soul seems content to play in the little blandbox of efficient causes.

Thus spake the ineffable Gagdad Bob!

But I'd bet our "scientistic friends" do not have a CLUE about that of which Gagdad Bob is speaking. For one thing, they deny the existence of soul hands-down, not just the existence of God.

They are machine-like thinkers. All questions reduce to Yes/No, True/False, 1/0 answers. They creep along the horizontal, thinking that only efficient causes are needed to explain the action of an evolving Universe.

The idea of Final Cause — purpose, goals — is absolutely excluded from the universe contained within their own minds. Contemporary science refuses to engage the idea of Final Cause.

But absent Final Cause, there is no meaning to be found in the world. And human beings cannot live in, cannot orient themselves to, a meaningless world. That's just a fact of human nature.

Thank you ever so much, dear Matchett-PI, for the link!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

The deep soul knows that no merely scientific explanation can ever satisfy man, whereas the shallow soul seems content to play in the little blandbox of efficient causes. .....

Well and truly said. Thank you so much for these insights, dear Matchett-PI!