i can understand the church's frustration with the super-nova as well as astronomers, philosophers, and just daily citizens. it seemed to be a general consensus that the bodies in the outer sphere were unchangeable, and i believe there is a sort of comfort that must have come along with thinking "yes, there is a heavenly body that is unchangeable and perfect".
kepler's nova changed all of this.
2007-11-13 08:21:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anthropomorphic 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
People who have no experience with earthquakes frequently find it a frightening experience when they have one for the first time. It's the same thing with certain beliefs that some people have cherished for a long time as absolute. However, if you live in earthquake country for long, you get used to it. The positive thing about the scientific methodology is that it teaches you to never completely trust any fact to be absolute, and that is what's wrong with many religions teaching the opposite. It's not the end of the world to have an earthquake every now and then. Why is it really important to people to believe that there are "unchanging things in the heavens", when astronomers are in fact telling us that the most cataclysmic events are happening all the time out there?
2007-11-13 08:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You might enjoy reading "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet, Dr. Olga Kharitidi's "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Free and Wilcock's "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", http://www.divinecosmos.com , Dr. William Tiller's "Psychoenergetic Science," http://www.tiller.org O. M. Aivanhov's "Light Is a Living Spirit," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing," and Lynne McTaggart's "The Field."
Work such as the above, and Sudarshan and Misra's work on the "quantum Zeno effect" (in Henry P. Stapp's "Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer"), has permitted some scientists to find that the "kingdom within" is correlated with soulfield coherency re Love, Truth, intention, and the like. Newtonian physics finds a new link between Plotinus' One Mind Soul and macro events, in quantum effects and psi/biofield. The Keplerian notion is a bit of a straw man, in this context.
cordially,
j.
2007-11-13 16:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that is permanent is transience, if people dont get that they are probably believing stuff without any reason (ie faith vis a vis religion)
2007-11-13 16:36:01 · answer #3 · answered by jonathan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who you really are is permanent / unchangeable.
2007-11-13 19:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by in_light_7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
three percription medicines and a doctor who likes to write more if the first three didn't work.
2007-11-13 17:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by Travis James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋