"You just broke my bro's arm. Now you're gonna get tasered. Say hello to Dr. Watts!"
- Cal Naughton, Jr.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
i read this the other day:
...the metaphysical realm is beyond our abilities to ever perceive. For example, when we see a tree, we see its outward appearance--e.g., the bark, leaves, branches--not its "treeness." We cannot perceive such things as that.
and it reminded me of this (scroll down past the rashy hands) and the conversation in the comments.
some people (andrew) really take to philosophical thought and some (molly) just don't. (for the record: molly's really smart, so i don't doubt that she understands it.)
it's just really cool (and often entertaining) to me how differently God wires us!
hahahaha. We are actually talking about that stuff right now. Or, we just got done talking about that stuff when we talked about Rationalism.
Plato had some CRAZY ideas, though. He talked about "treeness" (or, he called it in general that there are such things as "ideas" or "forms"). That's fine enough, but then he goes into how when we learn what a tree is, we actually already knew what "treeness" is before we were born, we are just being "reminded" of it. That's when I say, This stuff is just plain dumb. ;)
I've actually come to more of an appreciation of this stuff. I just can't help but thing... "WHY does this matter?"