Hatter <Hatter23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>panamfl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Notice every religion has been touted as the eternal [Truth],
not all of them even believe in eternality.
>yet they never seem to survive the fall of the culture
>that sup****ted them, or at least not intact.
dunno, many Asian and Indian religions have done so.
>Yet when it come to things like ceramics, iron forging,
>gunpowder....these are not held to be eternal truths
they're technologies, not expressions per se.
>by religion but most seem to easily survive the fall
>of the culture that invented
technology will do so if there is a incentive to
retain it.
>them. Yet, they were not held to the esteem religion was.
of course, because ultimacy is compelling.
technology is not ultimate. it is pragmatic.
>It really isn't difficult to figure out science works
knowledge applied is convincing.
>and survive because it is real
and so if science doesn't survive then it isn't real?
I don't follow the logic.
>and religion doesn't because it is cultural.
if religion does then it is real? the standards you are
using to evaluate these things seems somewhat arbitrary.
nocTifer
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