Subject: Gaia, Kuhn and paradigms -Reply
From: Dennis Nelson (NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil)
Date: Fri 14 Jan 2000 - 21:59:02 MET
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:59:02 -0500 From: Dennis Nelson <NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil> Subject: Gaia, Kuhn and paradigms -Reply
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>>> Chris O'Hagan <C.M.Ohagan@derby.ac.uk> 01/10/00 02:15am >>>
It is not easy to say how postmodernism is helpful in a few words,
Bob. Perhaps I could put it like this: belief in absolutes, and the
belief that one thus has 'the objective truth' has probably killed
more people and done more damage to the world and truly creative
thinking, and continues to do so, than scepticism and relativism ever
will. T
Chris O'Hagan
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Perhaps the purposeful or unintended misuse of the concept of
absolutes has killed more people and done more damage.
People who truly believe in absolute truths and several of the major
religions as part of that system believe we reap what we sow.
If our actions lead to obvious trangressions against others as opposed to
loving support to show how they might be transgressing, than we are
not exercising a belief in absolute truths, we are exercising our version
of them.
To be absolute, a truth must be a truth in all spheres. Barley seeds lead
to barley. Hate and violence lead to hate and violence. A smile leads to
a smile. Whatever we invest and how we invest will lead to like returns,
whether we immmediately can see or understand the results.
Faithfully,
Dennis R. Nelson
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