Post by Zahra Alrubai on Oct 21, 2016 23:40:22 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir's life and work were really important to understand in illusory and nature of religion. Through his life and work he came up with many examples that changes people's ideas of religion, through his examples we can see why many of them were important. Illusions is something we humans see because of the way we think or feel toward something. Most people in time of need they see something important to them in a vision or illusion. This thing gives them the power and energy to fight back. In Faqirs example he was at war, and he saw gurus, this vision gave him the energy to fight back and become stronger. When the war was done and he thought about this vision an idea came to him. He was wondering what others saw, he knew there was no way everyone had the same vision. This is when he knew that these visions and illusions are made from are mind and consciousness to help us get throw something. Another example was the boy with the bike he was a near death and the thing that helped him push through was the fact that his mother had got him a bike and he was imagining this bike. Every person has their own thing that brings them back,and this is why illusions are different for everyone.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
"Philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy" this quote is really accurate and explains the difference and similarity between the two. Philosophy is the study of knowledge, existence of everything, and how all things in life work and why in that way. Science is also the study of many things, but unlike philosophy science has to be proven. The theory's presented in science is always proven with experiments. After it has been proven it becomes scientific. On the other hand a lot of things in philosophy is not proven, they are things that are just stated but don't have real proof or an experiment to prove it. When something is proven and done well in philosophy it can be looked at as a science, or can lead to a scientific theory. There are many good examples to this, for example if someone says that us humans have a soul it's looked at as a philosophy not a science. When someone takes this idea further and can prove we humans have one through tests and analysis then we can push this idea more towards the science department. It will be viewed more as a scientific idea. In the end it just comes down to the way it's proven whether it's backed up or not. If the idea is then that philosophy is great and can be seen as a science.
Faqir's life and work were really important to understand in illusory and nature of religion. Through his life and work he came up with many examples that changes people's ideas of religion, through his examples we can see why many of them were important. Illusions is something we humans see because of the way we think or feel toward something. Most people in time of need they see something important to them in a vision or illusion. This thing gives them the power and energy to fight back. In Faqirs example he was at war, and he saw gurus, this vision gave him the energy to fight back and become stronger. When the war was done and he thought about this vision an idea came to him. He was wondering what others saw, he knew there was no way everyone had the same vision. This is when he knew that these visions and illusions are made from are mind and consciousness to help us get throw something. Another example was the boy with the bike he was a near death and the thing that helped him push through was the fact that his mother had got him a bike and he was imagining this bike. Every person has their own thing that brings them back,and this is why illusions are different for everyone.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
"Philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy" this quote is really accurate and explains the difference and similarity between the two. Philosophy is the study of knowledge, existence of everything, and how all things in life work and why in that way. Science is also the study of many things, but unlike philosophy science has to be proven. The theory's presented in science is always proven with experiments. After it has been proven it becomes scientific. On the other hand a lot of things in philosophy is not proven, they are things that are just stated but don't have real proof or an experiment to prove it. When something is proven and done well in philosophy it can be looked at as a science, or can lead to a scientific theory. There are many good examples to this, for example if someone says that us humans have a soul it's looked at as a philosophy not a science. When someone takes this idea further and can prove we humans have one through tests and analysis then we can push this idea more towards the science department. It will be viewed more as a scientific idea. In the end it just comes down to the way it's proven whether it's backed up or not. If the idea is then that philosophy is great and can be seen as a science.