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Originally Posted by Michael
This has been a great thread with all the various opinions on the thought of the poster. I'm still trying to decide which of the two schools of thought I should make my religion.
In some of the esoteric teachings I’ve run across, the cross is used to symbolize the seeming opposing views, where the horizontal bar denotes the quantitative aspect of existence and the vertical bar the qualitative aspect. So when a naturalist/scientismist like Lawrence Krauss states,
“We’re just a bit of pollution . . . If you got rid of us, and all the stars and all the galaxies and all the planets and all the aliens and everybody, then the universe would be largely the same. We’re completely irrelevant,” while that’s true in a quantitative sense, that view hardly expresses what most feel about life, or their life, in a qualitative sense. That, in contrast to the emphasis on spirituality or spiritual growth of the individual that theists, mystics et al place, which has to due with the qualitative aspect of existence.
So I think people just fall in different places in that schema based on the significance, or lack thereof, placed on the objective or quantitative realm of existence compared to the subjective or qualitative realm of experience. But I think just looking at these varying worldviews in such a context removes the polemic, (at least in one’s own thinking, not necessarily with discourse
).