09-19-2014, 12:50 AM
JLY I was using consensus definitions rather than making up my own, as you have taken the liberty of doing.
Yes but making stuff up with no physical or experiential counterpart is some animistic tribal stuff. Like I said before assuming that all different explanations and models of reality hold the same degree of accuracy and therefore it is simply a matter of choosing one like a pair of clothes is ridiculous. Relativism is the bane of intellectual development.
Well it's fairly obvious that it is neither completely one or the other, I use the absolute terms for the sake of efficiency and helping you get the general idea of what I'm trying to convey.
To argue that your ad hoc cosmic explanations for Ra's concept of polarity is as justified for being made up as a scientific theory that yields results in relation to observable phenomena is just too much.
Quote:We all make stuff up. Where do you think any good idea comes from? How do you think scientific theories happen? Somebody "makes stuff up" and then checks to see if it works.
Yes but making stuff up with no physical or experiential counterpart is some animistic tribal stuff. Like I said before assuming that all different explanations and models of reality hold the same degree of accuracy and therefore it is simply a matter of choosing one like a pair of clothes is ridiculous. Relativism is the bane of intellectual development.
Quote:The Ra Material is a frameworkA framework that makes extraordinary claims, to utilize this framework you have to use these claims when interpreting information and experience.
Quote:Because I have not studied all of the peripheral details (such as Ra's endorsement of Larson), I cannot endorse the history as true, but I cannot either assert that it is fiction.
Well it's fairly obvious that it is neither completely one or the other, I use the absolute terms for the sake of efficiency and helping you get the general idea of what I'm trying to convey.
To argue that your ad hoc cosmic explanations for Ra's concept of polarity is as justified for being made up as a scientific theory that yields results in relation to observable phenomena is just too much.