Sriram,
Well...its quite simple really...Blue!
Excellent. So you’re finally going to address your blind man analogy mistake are you? Good – here we go then…
Just try to get the microscopes off your eyes. That is the only way to see things outside the microscopic world. There is no other way.
Aw no – you’ve blown it again Say it ain’t so! Do I really have to explain this to you again? Really though? Slooooowly now….the only “microscope” here is reason and evidence. That’s what some of us bring to the claims of fact you make because that’s only only method of investigation we have. And when that fails – as it always does – then it’s
your job to provide an alternative method to investigate them.
Continuing to insist that someone should provide evidence of the bigger realities in a microscopic way is ridiculous. It can't be done.
It’s
claims of bigger realities, not bigger realities and if you have no evidence for these claims why should anyone think you to be right? I can make lots of claims about lots of things for which I have no evidence either – would you accept them as true on the same basis that you expect me to accept as true your evidence-free assertions? Why not?
As I keep telling you, it is about perception not about information. I have no additional information to provide you that you don't already have. You just need to get the microscopes off and look at the same things. You will see them differently!
I’ve dealt with your microscope mistake already (several times in fact), and your problem with “perception” is that your personal perceptions about anything are no more epistemically useful than my perceptions about leprechauns. You can perceive anything you like, but unless you can find some way to anchor those perceptions to reality, that’s all they are - perceptions.
Get it?!
Yes. Why don’t you?
Now...how does one get the microscopes off? That is easier said than done. Decades of microscopic training and cultural pressure cannot be undone easily. But you can try some of the following.
Easy – just abandon reason and evidence and use instead…er….well, what exactly?
1. For a start, try to have some faith in other people who accept mystical realities. Instead of adopting a superior 'nose in the air' attitude towards believers, try to respect at least some of their views. You can start with people who you would otherwise respect for their intelligence and honesty but who have a different view on such matters. Quit brushing them off as soon as they disagree with you on such things. While it requires you to keep your large ego under check, it could surely help somewhat in changing your perception.
I'm happy to respect anyone’s right to believe anything, but why on earth would I respect the content of their beliefs when they offer no means to investigate or validate them? You know this to be true already though don’t you – you respect my right to believe in leprechauns, but you have no respect at all for the belief itself.
Oh, and you’re on awful thin ice if you want to claim intelligence and honesty. The first is invalidated by the blogs you link to that are riddled with logical mistakes from beginning to end; the latter is invalidated by your habit of making errors here, then replying with insults and running away.
Quit being an adolescent, in other words.
QED
2. Read some books on Yoga, Vedanta etc. instead of snickering at them. Try to be humble and accept that the world could contain many mysteries that are beyond your perception.
If they’re “beyond our perception” why should anyone think that you alone actually
do perceive them?
3. Practice some Yoga, meditations so that your well entrenched perceptions and ideas get a good shake up. They might loosen their hold and after that it might be easier to take a peek outside the microscope.
I could practice these things for ever and a day. I might even arrive at various claims of objective fact about the world if I did. Trouble is, that’s all they’d be - claims. Until and unless you ever,
ever provide some means to justify your claims though that’s all you have. Let’s be kind and call them guesses rather than woo shall we – it’s a useful label for the claims of fact you make about whatever and the claims of fact I make about leprechauns. They’re epistemically identical – ie, worthless.
That is all I can say. (Now don't start off with the 'provide me evidence' routine)
Fine. Guesses it is then.
