Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
by R. D. Ashby
12-Jul-2012
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Sri Ashby, I noted the spirit of your article and I got clarified about your objective assessment of the matter. And I admire the scientific temper associated with the expressions which non-subjective and are based on data. Regards. |
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Thanks for your comment. I sense something notional about the term 'contemplative', as if it was all in the mind. My approach to the subject is in the tradition of scientific enquiry, where I observe facts, even though they appear to be abstract, and infer from the data. Thus, I arrive at my idea of God as manifested in the form of existence as we observe it: where in one act of existence is context, form and spirit: I then infer that God must be Context, Form and Spirit, constituting the Trinity, that is the act of God's Existence, and explains the form of created existence. I do not start from the Trinity as an article of faith. I also re-interpret evolution of the species through natural selection, which, rather startlingly, has no mind claimed for it since none can be observed, as the process of realisation of rightness, in which forms are contextual manifestations of rightness, and, in living forms, have an affection for life that is a rightness realising affection - solid data, from which I infer a Divine realising affection, whose act of creation is in affection for realisation of rightness, as ultimately manifested as the Divine Rightness. I do not start off with a creator God on the word of the bible, or as a matter of faith or rendition from abstract thought. I am strictly speaking a scientist in my investigation of reality, you might say, the last scientist who has been given to see, through direct observation open to all, the fundamental facts of existence, and to make inference from these facts, where it is not my personal opinion that is here being expressed, but an impersonal assessment of the data that is plain for all to see. |
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A very good contemplative article. We may or may not know how things have evolved (or created) till now fully. In human's life knowledge is a part. We have other interests, family, profession, friendships, etc., which also take and demand our time. It is an elite habit to know also about everything and pass a comment or give an opinion. Knowledge is power many times but ignorance (being unconcerned or being indifferent) too helps us some times. Thanks for a good food for thought. |