Re: MD Galileo

From: Joseph Maurer (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 19:59:30 GMT

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    Hi Sam,

    Yes! I prefer mystical to non-rational.
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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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