(09-04-2010, 04:57 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Regrettably, only by putting different insights together can we step beyond our own. I'm not disqualifying your position I'm just adding my perspective. Everyone here sees a version of truth through their unique distortions. The ancient parable of the blindfolded philosophers come to mind, upon inspection of an elephant. One philosopher holding it's tail calls it a small worm like creature, another holding the trunk disagrees and claims it much more resembles a python. A third philosopher near the front leg calls it a tree, and the one on it's back calls it a huge boulder.
I love the story of the blind men and the elephant! I use it often to describe the different religions, all being humans' quest for the divine.
I agree that it applies here, and is a good reason for us to be open to other points of views, without dismissing them as wrong. They aren't wrong, but just different points of view.
What really gets interesting is when the blind man holding the tail is willing to move over and try the leg, or the head, or the ear.