Post by nafichoudhury on Oct 16, 2016 20:49:54 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chaud’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he explains that these visions and miracles are a mere substance of our own imaginations which become illusive to us. As stated in The Unknowing Sage, “Manifestations are nothing but the impressions and suggestions that are ingrained upon our mind and we have accepted them as Reality.” Essentially, Chaud is arguing that these religious visions and miracles are illusions and do not actually exist. People like to think of these scenarios in their head and begin to believe it to be true, when it is not in reality. Chaud supports his claim furthermore in The Unknowing sage by stating “This is all a game of the mind and nothing else.” By stating that it is nothing apart from being in the mind, Chaud shows that he believes religious visions and miracles are strictly made up and have no real substance to them. In his view, they cannot be looked into for any scientific value and do not exist whatsoever in the real world. (word count: 179)
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
What is meant by the phrase "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” is that when a philosophy is proven to be true, it becomes scientific fact. If the philosophy fails to be proven true, it stays as a philosophical thought until it becomes proven. As stated in The Remainder Conjecture: Driving Science to the Brink of an Epistemological Cul de Sac, “if something is genuinely beyond science’s reach, it will invariably show up as a remainder.” What I take away from this is that if science is unable to prove a certain concept, the concept remains a theory which is then related to philosophy. If something is within science’s reach, then it is philosophy that is proven, thus philosophy done well. The film goes on to state that if “we are not skeptical enough we can easily be duped and mistakenly confuse a sleight of hand magician’s trick as a miracle”, meaning that the investigation of philosophy is mandatory for science. Without philosophy, scientific theories would not come about. And without those scientific theories, there would be no scientific laws. (word count: 184)
Faqir Chaud’s experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he explains that these visions and miracles are a mere substance of our own imaginations which become illusive to us. As stated in The Unknowing Sage, “Manifestations are nothing but the impressions and suggestions that are ingrained upon our mind and we have accepted them as Reality.” Essentially, Chaud is arguing that these religious visions and miracles are illusions and do not actually exist. People like to think of these scenarios in their head and begin to believe it to be true, when it is not in reality. Chaud supports his claim furthermore in The Unknowing sage by stating “This is all a game of the mind and nothing else.” By stating that it is nothing apart from being in the mind, Chaud shows that he believes religious visions and miracles are strictly made up and have no real substance to them. In his view, they cannot be looked into for any scientific value and do not exist whatsoever in the real world. (word count: 179)
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
What is meant by the phrase "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” is that when a philosophy is proven to be true, it becomes scientific fact. If the philosophy fails to be proven true, it stays as a philosophical thought until it becomes proven. As stated in The Remainder Conjecture: Driving Science to the Brink of an Epistemological Cul de Sac, “if something is genuinely beyond science’s reach, it will invariably show up as a remainder.” What I take away from this is that if science is unable to prove a certain concept, the concept remains a theory which is then related to philosophy. If something is within science’s reach, then it is philosophy that is proven, thus philosophy done well. The film goes on to state that if “we are not skeptical enough we can easily be duped and mistakenly confuse a sleight of hand magician’s trick as a miracle”, meaning that the investigation of philosophy is mandatory for science. Without philosophy, scientific theories would not come about. And without those scientific theories, there would be no scientific laws. (word count: 184)