No one can have knowledge about everything. Shouldn't we go to the people of knowledge?

Question

I have a very simple assertion. We know that no one can have complete knowledge, knowledge about everything in this world and things beyond it. Those of us who are students know very well that even in a particular field of study, it is almost impossible to attain complete knowledge of that field.

What this implies is that, when you are confused about something you don't know, you should go to the people who have the relevant knowledge. Fortunately, its so easy in this age, because of Internet and media. Sometimes one doesn't even have to ask for things.

But this raises another issue. While easy access to information is great, at the same time it has the potential to spread propaganda at much faster pace than before. The good thing, however, is that because one can look for all points of view on a certain topic, if one is sincere in their search, they can find what is true or what has more probability of being true.

That said, most of the Americans only know about Islam what the media propagates. Why did the number of American converts to Islam increase after 9/11? That is because lots of Americans set out to read the Qur'an and find out what is in there which tells muslims to do bad things (which isn't there in the Qur'an by the way). Loads of Americans became Muslims when they read the Qur'an themselves. Don't believe it? See this documentary

TURNING MUSLIMS IN TEXAShttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9184353144432289069&q=turning+muslims+in+texas


Apart from that, there are so many things in science which verify what has been mentioned in the Qur'an 1400 years ago. Check video comments of these NON-MUSLIM scientists and decide yourself.

http://islamyesterday.com/science/

Answer 1

Yes but people of info are, well, people. As such, they are as subject to mistakes and bias as anyone else. My college experience was one of pure leftist ideology from students and professors alike. No diversity of thought. Did I learn? Of course. Could I have learned more on my own? Absolutely.
People can only do so much for you, no matter who they are.

Answer 2

What you say is true, we can look at all points of view on certain topics. However, at the same time, your opening statement is open to controversy. That's not what I wanted to say, but that's what came to mind. Anyway, you state that no one can have knowledge about everything, so, who are the people of knowledge? That would be everyone, right? As here, in Answers. No one knows the answers to everything, but as a combined effort, everyone knows.

Answer 3

I see the question here really as "Who are the people who possess complete knowledge?"

...which brings up other questions like "Is such a thing as 'complete knowledge' accessible?"

Maybe we can approach it like this: Why haven't we yet attained complete knowledge in anything?

It's because of the way we're designed: We receive information from an undefined external source through our five senses. Our five senses limit this information within the ranges that they're designed to receive, and then this limited information gets passed onto our mind, where it is processed, and where it further limits the information it receives from the senses.

Scientists have discovered that our five senses receive some fifty million bits of information per second, but that our mind processes just fifty of these bits of information per second; and this information is processed according to what the mind determines to be the most self-serving information.

This more or less explains why we have never attained complete knowledge in anything; we are designed as self-serving information receivers and it is inherent in this design from the outset (i.e. from the initial limiting of information that occurs when our five senses receive information), that we can never attain complete knowledge--the complete amount of information that exists outside our five senses.

People who have attained complete knowledge would thus have to be people who have attained additional senses, ones capable of receiving the total amount of information outside our five senses.

The question then is, is there such a method, one that allows us to develop an additional sense and sense a wider, more complete reality than the one we sense through our five senses?

http://www.kabbalah.info

Answer 4

This is a bit overclaimed. Many of us know Islam not from the media, but from its own scriptures. I myself have read the Quran from front to back. My brother keeps guides to Islam written by Islamic scholars in his house, and I've read some of those as well.

(and no, I don't accept the facile claim that you have to read the Quran in Arabic. Plenty of Christians don't read Greek, and yet understand their own Bible. Any translator worth his salt can take the sense of a work in one language over to another language. Human forms of communication are not that divergent that this cannot be done.)

As to Islamic proselytizers hype about Americans "converting" en masse to Islam, that's more hype than reality. It remains true - massively true - that more Americans in a year convert to paganism or another denomination of Christianity than ever convert to Islam. Islam isn't even near the top of most-converted to faiths in the US, despite the unsupportable and oft-made claim that it is.

As to literary works that predict science accurately, Gulliver's Travels and Star Trek predicted many aspects of the future far more accurately than the vague statements proselytizers always tell us is so amazing in the various Suras. Gulliver's Travels accurately predicted the discovery of two Martian moons, and correctly predicted their apogee. Star Trek anticipated the cell phone, CDs, and cloaking devices.

But their greater accuracy than the Quran does not make me want to worship giants, horses, midgets, or klingons.

Answer 5

I can see your point, but if you believe that the persons of "knowledge" are biased or telling you things that you don't believe, then you would be reticient to approach them. I might do that about a field of study other than religion. I would not go to anyone over religion because they would tell me what they believe, and one belief isn't any more true than another.

Answer 6

One should educate themselves on the topic of spiritual realization. That is the duty of every human being. We should not just accept blindly what we are told without using our God given intelligence and discrimination of the truth. We should be sincere to understand God and our relatoinship with Him. If we are sincer we God will not cheet us. But whatever cheeting propensity we have that is how much He will allow us to cheat ourselve. Go to www.stephen-knapp.com for universal truths. and www.essene.org for the real understanding on Christianity

Answer 7

I dont know if islam applies to every one, but I defnetly know that the saying " empty vessels make a lot of noise" applies in most of the cases.

Answer 8

GOD has knoewledge of everything. People of this world do not have all knowledge youa re correct, so worldy anything/people have no complete answer except for God who knows all--

Answer 9

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Answer 10

the more you know the more you find out you don't know. as you stated there will never be anyone who knows everything about any subject.