knowledge?
2006-10-02 08:44:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Predetermined ethical determination?
So I had preconcieved an answer about an ethical answer? Big words don't equate to intelligence.
2006-10-02 09:05:30 · update #1
Good question.
Knowledge is definitely a good thing. I've had many people wonder why I want to learn so much about the world, especially about different people and religions. I'm a Christian but I don't shelter myself. I want to know things, and I don't want to be one of those people who thinks the only thing we need to know is the Bible.
I think learning should be a continual process for everyone. Sadly, we often miss what we could have learned just from every day life. Instead we cover everything up with anger and blame.
Not sure where I was going with this whole thing, but there you go. Those are my thoughts on it.
2006-10-02 08:51:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dig deeper. If enlightenment is the enemy of ignorance, why strive to accumulate knowledge? Don't make a pretermined ethical determination without applying logic or authority. The first clause of your question adds nothing to it.
Don't assume that enlightenment is the goal. First tell us why it is the goal. Why is not pleasure the only goal, or avoidance of pain? Is enlightenment always useful?
Philosophy is hard especially in a narrow mindset using such broad presuppositions.
2006-10-02 15:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by Nick â? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enlightenment by belief is most likely the worst possible means available to seek an accurate or logical understanding of this creation/universe as well as any 'omnipotent source entity'.
Unfortunately beliefs only factually rooted capacity is the opportunity for deception. Not only being scientifically, logically deemed 'unreliable' this device of 'belief' is also the one thing a con-artist must achieve in order to succeed.
Lucidly isn't a reality-based 'omnipotent source entity' being only logically realizable, their religions being at best a shot in the dark? Realistically wouldn't this omnipotent being be recognizable by an absolute yet, benevolent rule by means of one all-encompassing and immutable law, ever-present, all wise so on and etc.?
Interestingly there rationally exists absolute factually-based, scientifically-verifiable evidence indicating an 'omnipotent source entity' potentially could exist but, would be unlike any conventional perception of "god(s)".
2006-10-02 15:58:38 · answer #3 · answered by Truyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not strive to limit my understanding of the world through knowledge. I have accumulated much knowledge throughout my lifetime and continue to do so.
But accumulation of anything does not bring enlightenment. If you know anything about enlightenment--according to Buddha, for example--you know that one way to "achieve" it is to suspend/drop what you think you know.
In any event, I never became enlightened due to accumulated knowledge about the world. Knowledge helps me to understand my surroundings and to deal with people, for example, but it doesn't get me any closer to God.
To find enlightenment, I went to the giver of light. Knowledge of the divine is what brings enlightenment. One can certainly find clues about the divine mind in the world, and one can intuit certain things about the divine mind by studying what God has created, but one cannot know God personally until one would like to know God personally and therefore goes to him to ask him who he is.
If you want knowledge, seek the world. If you want enlightenment, seek God.
2006-10-02 15:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just do not make the accumulation of knowledge get in the way of more important things like being a good friend and loving and giving to the less fortunate.
2006-10-02 15:48:12 · answer #5 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With knowledge comes enlightenment and with enlightenment comes the end of superstitions.
That's bad for religion
2006-10-02 15:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge can be good or evil, depending on how it is used. I see knowledge as proving the Bible.
2006-10-02 15:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because knowledge is power and that frightens religious institutions that control their flocks by keeping them dumb as sheep.
2006-10-02 15:46:15 · answer #8 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't. The more knowledge the better.
2006-10-02 15:47:24 · answer #9 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because taht will undermine everyone in power if we all suddenly grew a brain
2006-10-02 15:46:42 · answer #10 · answered by Cloudrunner 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋