Saturday, May 14, 2022

In a Dark Room, with a Black Cat, What is Philosophy and Science All About?

This is a good meme to deconstruct, and revise, so I did, for adequate modern well-rounded spiritual-religious clarity, and addressing scientific materialism.... Mark Rego Monteiro It´s not all that smart, or "lighter side of science" at all. It´s badly done anti-anything but science, by a scientific materialist..A good comparative scenario is more like this: Philosophy is like somebody in a dark room who hears the meow of a black cat, sees its eyes, or feels its fur, then asks, "What does that meow, etc mean?" and then says, "Meows, etc, come from cats, or using empirical methodology, from a few possibilities including a cat. Therefore, there is, or a good hypothesis that there is, a black cat in the room." Metaphysics is like being in a dark room, doing the basic philosophy, and then asking, "Where did that cat and this room, and myself, come from, and who feeds it, who built it, and who am I, who developed University-based philosophy from monastic schools, and what does it all mean, anyway?" Good theology is like saying, "Descartes may have invented modern philosophy, but Thomas Aquinas earlier took Aristotle´s esoteric First Cause and established the metaphysical assumption of the lawful parental loving Creator God of a lawful Creation, so that we know that outside this dark room there is Western Civilization with its heritage in Jesus, the self-described Son of God and Man, and UN human rights-sustainability global community also with its heritage in Jesus´ loving integrity. And in modern domesticated society somebody feeds that cat, that first evolved thanks to Darwin-Wallace´s evolution as the creation went past abiogenesis, also studied in University-based knowledge in Jesus´ legacy." Science is like someone in a dark room with a black cat, hearing it meow and saying, "How does that cat meow? What is this darkness, anyway? Let me pet the cat repeatedly and count how many times it meows and purrs." And then saying, "Oh, yeah, this is scientific philosophy, in the first place." Scientific materialism is like an obsessive fan of science then saying "No, it isn´t scientific philosophy. It´s the absolute truth. There is no evidence for any other truth. Darkness? Black cat? Nobody is qualified except the scientist to tell me what the evidence means." A technological engineer might develop a flashlight. And, oh yeah, can easily be well-rounded enough to know that "f*ing" means someone is misdirecting their feelings of self-righteous anger instead of actually understanding their own psychological and spiritual-religious needs and what philosophy, etc really is about.

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