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Originally Posted by redpoint5
We're infinitely incapable and ignorant. How we ended up with smartphones and plenty of food is a miracle
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Fuller explains it:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/0...-lords-prayer/
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Since 1927, whenever I am going to sleep, I always concentrate my thinking on what I call “Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer.”
He then goes on to write out his “prayer” — essentially a secular definition of divinity as a curiosity-driven love of truth bent through the prism of our subjective experience, something Philip Ball articulated a quarter century later in his eloquent distinction between curiosity and wonder — on his 84th birthday:
[example of EVER RETHINKING THE LORD’S PRAYER from July 12, 1979]
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Then you read the example, with it's
definitions and
qualifiers, and realize why he never got any sleep at night.
But seriously, the brain concerns itself with specifics, only mind can discern generalities.
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"Only minds have the capability to discover principles and put them to rigorous physical test before accepting them as principle. More often theologists and others discover principles but do not subject them to the rigorous physical-special-case testing before accepting and employing them as working-assumption principles.
Principles are eternal. Special case interactions of principles are temporal and brain-apprehensible because in pure principle we have time, which is simply the principle of potentially different relative frequencies and not of beginnings and endings."
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