Post by Denise Guerrero on Oct 20, 2016 7:23:48 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand's experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he explains the experiences and helps us understand a vision of when this can happen to us. The book, "The Unknowing Sage",
mentions that “Uncompromising terms revealed the illusory nature behind many religious visions and miracles”. Faqir Chand believed that the whole world was a mystery. For example, he mentioned," when someone goes under a near death experience, and beholds a Jesus or an Angel in the middle of the light at the end of a long dark tunnel, it is not the esteemed figure who is himself orchestrating the encounter". The proves that life is a mystery because you do not simply know what you encounter during the near death experience and everything in the general life. Whether the person is experiencing a real near death situation or not, I think it depends on what the person believes.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
According to the film, "The Remainder Conjecture", it states, "If something is genuinely beyond science's reach, it will invariably show up as a remainder". Basically, what this means is that is science can not prove what needs to be proved than whatever did not get proved will become an extra "remainder". Therefore, the extra will become philosophy because it can not be proved. The remainder will either have to be proved in a different way and if it can't then again it will become philosophy. In my opinion, if the philosophy becomes a remainder, then most likely it will stay a philosophy.
Faqir Chand's experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because he explains the experiences and helps us understand a vision of when this can happen to us. The book, "The Unknowing Sage",
mentions that “Uncompromising terms revealed the illusory nature behind many religious visions and miracles”. Faqir Chand believed that the whole world was a mystery. For example, he mentioned," when someone goes under a near death experience, and beholds a Jesus or an Angel in the middle of the light at the end of a long dark tunnel, it is not the esteemed figure who is himself orchestrating the encounter". The proves that life is a mystery because you do not simply know what you encounter during the near death experience and everything in the general life. Whether the person is experiencing a real near death situation or not, I think it depends on what the person believes.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
According to the film, "The Remainder Conjecture", it states, "If something is genuinely beyond science's reach, it will invariably show up as a remainder". Basically, what this means is that is science can not prove what needs to be proved than whatever did not get proved will become an extra "remainder". Therefore, the extra will become philosophy because it can not be proved. The remainder will either have to be proved in a different way and if it can't then again it will become philosophy. In my opinion, if the philosophy becomes a remainder, then most likely it will stay a philosophy.