Post by jparise0917 on Oct 21, 2016 16:54:37 GMT
1.) Why is Faqir Chand’s experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chands experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because his experiences show how he got over his fears over the course of his lifetime. In the book “Unknowing Saga: The Life and Work of Faqir Chand it showed us things that happened in Faqir’s life and how he what happened to him made him memorable to all, even still to this day. When Faqir had the vision that a guru came to him to explain the solution to end the war, it became clear that it was possible that is self conscious knew the whole time what the answer was but that he needed an extra little push given to him by someone of status to himself to believe. Faqir made it apparent that the gods where just “idols” and merely a “role model,” but the awareness was within him all along.
2.) What is meant by the phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy,” means that correct knowledge of the way the universe works will give you so many theories on the universe itself; you will actually understand what you are wondering about, whereas if you don’t have correct knowledge or even correct wonderment about the universe you will always wonder how it works; in other words, you will never understand what you are wondering about. Science is facts, whereas philosophy is a lot of theories and pondering strung together, if you truly know how to ponder and think and are truly good at philosophy it turns into a science, but if you do not understand philosophy and are not good at thinking, it will always just be philosophy, another subject to you.
Faqir Chands experiences are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because his experiences show how he got over his fears over the course of his lifetime. In the book “Unknowing Saga: The Life and Work of Faqir Chand it showed us things that happened in Faqir’s life and how he what happened to him made him memorable to all, even still to this day. When Faqir had the vision that a guru came to him to explain the solution to end the war, it became clear that it was possible that is self conscious knew the whole time what the answer was but that he needed an extra little push given to him by someone of status to himself to believe. Faqir made it apparent that the gods where just “idols” and merely a “role model,” but the awareness was within him all along.
2.) What is meant by the phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy,” means that correct knowledge of the way the universe works will give you so many theories on the universe itself; you will actually understand what you are wondering about, whereas if you don’t have correct knowledge or even correct wonderment about the universe you will always wonder how it works; in other words, you will never understand what you are wondering about. Science is facts, whereas philosophy is a lot of theories and pondering strung together, if you truly know how to ponder and think and are truly good at philosophy it turns into a science, but if you do not understand philosophy and are not good at thinking, it will always just be philosophy, another subject to you.