Re: (TFT) Is this a decade of thought? SO SAD!

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 19:36 -0400 4/15/10, Jay (reasonably) wrote:
> Hi Mrs. T.

er, that would be *Miss* T (my daughter).

:-)

At 19:36 -0400 4/15/10, Jay wrote:
> Philosophicly speaking, I suggest spirituality as opposite of knowledge in
> that, while both seek for "truth", spirituality relies more on feeling,
> emotion and intuition while knowledge depends more on study, observation and
> deduction.
> Is the friction twixt science and religion really there?

I think they are not in conflict, but orthogonal. Spirituality should 
address the things that can't be experimented on, proven or disproven 
- by-definition matters of faith. Science gets the disprovable and 
provable matters.

Clearly, Earth history shows that matters *can* move from one sphere 
to the other ("and yet, it moves!"). I claim that means we have 
gotten neither our science nor our spirituality "right" yet.

Margaret's question is still a good one though, even if my 
orthogonality characterization applies. If in Cidri (or wherever), 
demons are unreliable, not subject to experiment, test, provable or 
disprovable - are they a "science"? If magic is reliable in that it 
always works the same, can it be a matter of spirituality? I suppose 
there *could* be overlap ... I guess I still have neither my (Cidri) 
"science" nor my (Cidri) "spirituality" worked out "right"...

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