Comments on: Seeing Things http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things/ Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things/comment-page-1/#comment-3592 Mike Purvis Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:57:36 +0000 http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things#comment-3592 Uh oh, the big question of "Why"... that's definitely the realm of philosophy and religion more than science. And ultimately, it's the "Why" that draws people to religion. "How" sends them to science. Not that the two have to conflict, except in... some areas. Uh oh, the big question of “Why”… that’s definitely the realm of philosophy and religion more than science. And ultimately, it’s the “Why” that draws people to religion. “How” sends them to science.

Not that the two have to conflict, except in… some areas.

]]> By: Eric Blondeel http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things/comment-page-1/#comment-3591 Eric Blondeel Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:30:38 +0000 http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things#comment-3591 I love watership down too... bloody excellent book. Though I read it so long ago, I should pick it up again. As to the supernatural... can you really suggest that anything is explainable? I don't mean to be pretentious or overly philosophical, and to be perfectly honest the idea of god or the supernatural doesn't really agree all that well with me (whether or not they exist in any manner close to the way we understand them). However, I can't help but feel that as we progress and learn more, and seem to develop this sweeping understanding of the architecture and just the whole image of the universe through the course of our lives compared to what we could know with just our basic intelligence and intuition, that despite all this the really big question of "why?" is never really answered in any manner. Okay... that is ludicrously pretentious and overly philosophical. Meh, the hell with it. Either way, I don't know if this is your thing, but if you're looking for a good read, try picking up Epistle II of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, you might find this part appropriate. "Could he, whose rules the rapid Comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his Mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning, or his end?" Keep up the good work by the way, it's a great site. I love watership down too… bloody excellent book. Though I read it so long ago, I should pick it up again.

As to the supernatural… can you really suggest that anything is explainable? I don’t mean to be pretentious or overly philosophical, and to be perfectly honest the idea of god or the supernatural doesn’t really agree all that well with me (whether or not they exist in any manner close to the way we understand them). However, I can’t help but feel that as we progress and learn more, and seem to develop this sweeping understanding of the architecture and just the whole image of the universe through the course of our lives compared to what we could know with just our basic intelligence and intuition, that despite all this the really big question of “why?” is never really answered in any manner.

Okay… that is ludicrously pretentious and overly philosophical. Meh, the hell with it.

Either way, I don’t know if this is your thing, but if you’re looking for a good read, try picking up Epistle II of Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, you might find this part appropriate.

“Could he, whose rules the rapid Comet bind,
Describe or fix one movement of his Mind?
Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend,
Explain his own beginning, or his end?”

Keep up the good work by the way, it’s a great site.

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