I belive spirituality can be understood by self instropection. Then life's aim turns to be being used for purpose higher than yourself. Infact Darwin's theory of evolution tells us that aim of life is continuation of life as a whole and not that of a single individual. What ever one does which includes self development and struggle of any kind makes me feel the triumph of life and not a mere individual win.
2007-07-25 02:50:01 · 8 answers · asked by just someone 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Spirituality is nonsense, science is fact.
2007-07-25 02:58:08 · answer #1 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
ok more simply put he meant, the meaning of life is within the circle.
What the hell does that mean you ask?
It means that, what you eat, came from something that also ate.
The sun, the air, the water and the land all work within it's own circle and all of these circle are linked to each other. Each with it's own universe. Feeding on and off each other. This is the energy of life. The momentum.
I dislike the term "higher" because it gives the wrong impression. I like to use the word "simpler". If I could be so bold to make it.
I thing the origin of religion was to tell a story. Story telling, song and dance were the vehicle of passing on knowledge. But the fact that it was put on paper, gave it less or more value than what was being told. The meaning behind the words were lost because it was put on paper instead of being told at a time when the people would listen.
2007-07-25 10:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the historical relation is- I'll NOT enter a religious debate, if you want the full opinion email me... it's in my profile - is that during the neolithic era when we as humans had time to harvest and feed families we had the time to sit around and ponder things like meaning, theories, mythologies... And these naturally led to people who were not happy with the answers which agricultural conjecture had to offer about life due to the lack of scientifically observable, predictable and repeatable experiments and hypotheses. Now of course there is the objection that there was not the scientific method or anything like that... and to that I will say, Jimi Hendrix may now have read music, but he could tell you what a G-Chord was, how it worked and where it should be placed in a song!
*** in all fairness people argue over whether or not Jimi could read music since he did play back up for big bands... however I was making a point- do not take it literal and please look for the underlying meaning of the comparison.
Take care and good luck on amalgamating them for yourself and your own beliefs... that's all that matters, so long as no one else is hurt or persecuted against due to your revelations and mendings of the two elements.
2007-07-29 08:03:17 · answer #3 · answered by Davis Wylde 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
science is the means of measuring the world around us and making factual analyses of what we see.
ie the earth is round. it is not the center of the universe, it is how old?
our spiritual leaders have all aregued these points to death . (quite literally for some poor people).
is it the role of faith to deliberatley blind us to that which can be proven?, or is faith merely a bridge to help us get over the unknown and back to the idea that God created it all.
However he did it, big bang followed by evolution; or a spontaneous creation of a garden and two people and a huge effort just to make it apper to be the former, it is done. We are here. Yes there are unanswered questions. God gave us the will and the means to seek the answers to them. if he wanted to keep us in the dark he would have.
Our whole purpose in life is to find meaning for ourselves and to live a good and virtuous life. Is it not blasphemy therefore to discard the facts we have learned and live in ignorance for the sake of these so called spiritual leaders?
2007-07-29 04:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've just started reading a book "The Varieties of Scientific Experience, A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan was a scientist and I'm interested in learning his thoughts on the subject.
So far as my own beliefs I am a Christian.
2007-07-25 10:03:31 · answer #5 · answered by Miz D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... Darwin's idea applies to all species, but gets tangled a bit when it comes to more intelligent self aware animals such as humans... Once you have an identity of self you compare yourself to others... If you feel your social participation/input to be lacking you start searching for more. This search effort for inclusion and/or participation into something bigger than oneself tends to lead to the idea of spirituality. Some say it is escapism. I just think it is a theory to live by! Whatever tickles the pickle right!?
2007-07-25 09:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by ikiraf 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think both are absolutely necessary.
Spirituality without science is ignorance .
Science without spirituality is cold and empty.
One without the other can lead to the worst behavior in mankind. When we have both, we are in balance.
2007-07-25 10:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by majnun99 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
cant see the relationship of the two but both involve men in general.
2007-07-25 09:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋