http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/06/17/two-men-operating-under-pseudonyms/ Thoughts on Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly by Sir Frederick Chook, a Colonial Dilettante and Romantic Fop. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/06/17/two-men-operating-under-pseudonyms/#comment-18045 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:15:05 +0800 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/06/17/two-men-operating-under-pseudonyms/#comment-18045 Once again you articulate something I've deeply believed for a long time, better than I could ever have said it myself. People seem to forget that things like religion, philosophy and science all stem (in my opinion) from the same part of us; the part that asks "why are we here?" and "what is here, anyway?" and all those other questions, the part that wants to make sense of it all. Given so many different means of understanding, how can they not compliment one another? The more possibilities your mind can make room for, the more wonder is increased, and I think wonder is a fundamental human quality.. Once again you articulate something I’ve deeply believed for a long time, better than I could ever have said it myself. People seem to forget that things like religion, philosophy and science all stem (in my opinion) from the same part of us; the part that asks “why are we here?” and “what is here, anyway?” and all those other questions, the part that wants to make sense of it all. Given so many different means of understanding, how can they not compliment one another? The more possibilities your mind can make room for, the more wonder is increased, and I think wonder is a fundamental human quality..

]]> http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/06/17/two-men-operating-under-pseudonyms/#comment-18068 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:11:47 +0800 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/06/17/two-men-operating-under-pseudonyms/#comment-18068 Oh, I'm just a verbose nerd. I'm glad I was able to tap a short tune on our collective unconscious! It always bugs me when armchair anthropologists dismiss all religious thought as "what we tried to explain the world with before science was invented." Pish posh - the alchemists who we laugh at for trying to turn lead into gold came up with countless advances in medicine, metalworking, abstract physics, anything you care to name, and developed systems of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in the process - something the arch-materialist scientist won't even consider. Any system of knowledge that doesn't include self-transformation - lead into gold indeed - is just counting on its own toes over and over. Oh, I’m just a verbose nerd. I’m glad I was able to tap a short tune on our collective unconscious! It always bugs me when armchair anthropologists dismiss all religious thought as “what we tried to explain the world with before science was invented.” Pish posh - the alchemists who we laugh at for trying to turn lead into gold came up with countless advances in medicine, metalworking, abstract physics, anything you care to name, and developed systems of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in the process - something the arch-materialist scientist won’t even consider. Any system of knowledge that doesn’t include self-transformation - lead into gold indeed - is just counting on its own toes over and over.

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