obviousThu, Jan 3, 2008 I tend to think that we posit an ideal of God as a way to deal with the sense of infinity we all share. Various methods of manifesting this ideal can be found across the religious smorgasbord, but none comes close to truly encapsulating infinity in all its infinite infinitudes.
It's a real shame that the scientific community hasn't latched onto the idea of infinity in all its metaphysical glory. The future-looking, scientifically literate community could do with a way to focus the narrative of our shared mission statement. Religion brings God as figurehead, as holistic all, as father and shepard. Science brings nothing to the mass audience that could be recognised as a collective driving force. I even hate using the words 'science' and 'scientist', so polluted have they become by the homogeny of understanding our current mass media has attended to them.
Religious narratives look back, the scientific narrative should look forward. Giving each consciousness a shared sense that they are part of the infinite might just bolster us onwards in a collective direction. At the moment we are floundering for an identity. Make it infinity, true infinity.
Its real big out there in space, but its even bigger in here, in inner space.
I tend to think that we posit an ideal of God as a way to deal with the sense of infinity we all share. Various methods of manifesting this ideal can be found across the religious smorgasbord, but none comes close to truly encapsulating infinity in all its infinite infinitudes.
It's a real shame that the scientific community hasn't latched onto the idea of infinity in all its metaphysical glory. The future-looking, scientifically literate community could do with a way to focus the narrative of our shared mission statement. Religion brings God as figurehead, as holistic all, as father and shepard. Science brings nothing to the mass audience that could be recognised as a collective driving force. I even hate using the words 'science' and 'scientist', so polluted have they become by the homogeny of understanding our current mass media has attended to them.
Religious narratives look back, the scientific narrative should look forward. Giving each consciousness a shared sense that they are part of the infinite might just bolster us onwards in a collective direction. At the moment we are floundering for an identity. Make it infinity, true infinity.
Its real big out there in space, but its even bigger in here, in inner space.