tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8458175582773328494..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: See More with Celestial Principles Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68175683965070343642015-12-29T10:44:53.388-08:002015-12-29T10:44:53.388-08:00"Especially in this day and age, in which the..."Especially in this day and age, in which there is much more information than anyone could ever assimilate, we need simple principles to organize and reduce it to order and hierarchy (which amount to the same thing), but without distorting or occluding the facts on the ground. With our principles in place, we can see more, not less."<br /><br />Exactly. One of the more frustrating things about arguing for first principles with folks who've never learned any, or worse, take it as a fact that principles are useless, is that they compare them to facts and find them wanting. <br /><br />It's like handing someone a telescope which they refuse to look through properly, holding it up sideways in front of their eyes instead, saying "I can't see anything with this, it blocks my view! "<br /><br />If you see less, not more, with principles, you're doing it wrong. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41038132036741137822015-12-29T09:22:11.769-08:002015-12-29T09:22:11.769-08:00Speaking of Principles, one of ours is Complementa...<i>Speaking of Principles, one of ours is Complementarity, such that "To know what man is, is to know what God is, and conversely" (Schuon)</i><br /><br />And here, in logo form: <a href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Content/Site140/Blog/3856yearofmercy_00000003240.jpg" rel="nofollow">"The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love."</a> It's an interesting choice; I don't know how many Catholics get the reference.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com