[ QUOTE ] I think it's more amazing that the human mind considers certain things amazing... anything could be amazing, depending on your viewpoint! Reality is, in itself, pretty amazing. [/ QUOTE ] I think this might derail the thread a bit, but you just mentioned the biggest problem of a materialistic worldview. There is…
I don't think that you have to necessarily dispense with a "materialistic" point of view. of course, that subject then lends to greater existential questions like "what is material". what i concieve as physical reality is still just a symbolic interpretation of a universe that is impossible to know without that symbolic…
[ QUOTE ] Forgive me if I've misunderstood, Scottish, but that came across as an extremely verbose "keep an open mind" bit. [/ QUOTE ] You didn't misunderstand me, this is pretty much what I was saying. I think the consequences of a strictly naturalistic view of things force us to consider things beyond matter too. But the…