From: Joseph Maurer (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 19:59:30 GMT
Hi Sam,
Yes! I prefer mystical to non-rational.
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Subject: Fw: MD Galileo
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> Subject: Re: MD Galileo
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>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Catching up on a post I neglected to reply to earlier on.
>>
>> > [joe] and I declared to Sam that his use of logic to defend the Church
>> > in
>> > its rebuke of Galileo's mystical experience of gravity was wrong. Logic
>> > cannot defend Faith, they don't speak a common language. They are too
>> > far
>> > apart. If someone's Faith is misplaced, only mystical experience can
>> > speak
>> > to the error, like Galileo's experience of gravity. The growth of
>> > science in
>> > its mystical look at gravity, the DQ of the inorganic level has shown
>> > many
>> > dogma's to be out of this world. Unfortunately what constitute
>> > inorganic,
>> > organic, social, intellectual patterns in a moral level is left to:
>> > When you
>> > see it you'll know it. I feel there could be some effort to acknowledge
>> > the
>> > mystical DQ of each level as it evolves from the DQ of the inorganic
>> > level.
>> > Giving a Faith pattern to mystical experience is proper since it can be
>> > challenged by a further discipline/ experience of mystical Quality.
>>
>> I'm interested in this. Part of what I am responding to is the sense that
>> highQuality
> argumentation
>> is not enough to persuade someone to change their mind, that there needs
>> to be some sort of
> dynamic
>> break through to 'facilitate' the change of mind. So, as with Kuhn, the
>> revolution is driven by
>> non-rational factors (because the rationality is always applied after the
>> event).
>>
>> Is that what you were getting at?
>>
>> Sam
>>
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