Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @PaulHRosenberg

@PaulHRosenberg 7/ "...The great equalizers dispensed by the scientific method are the tools, those analytical tools. The miracle of genius is replaced by the standardization mechanism. But fools with tools are still fools, and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you." world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/space3/miracle.html

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Quoted by@jonmsweeney Methods are tools, but tools often become worlds. Science sees brilliantly where measurement reaches, while remaining structurally blind to vast human understandings of being itself. Epistemic blindness is a strange loop. ?s=20Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnrobb What? The scientific method as ultimacy? More than a few folks are calling for a New Reformation. “In its modern orientations the human mind seems to be caught between a downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists.” - Thomas BerryQuoted by@johnrobb What? The scientific method as ultimacy? More than a few folks are calling for a New Reformation. “In its modern orientations the human mind seems to be caught between a downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists.” - Thomas BerryQuoted by@nils_gilman “...Mysteries are intrinsically esoteric, and as such are an offense to democracy: is not publicity a democratic principle? Democratic resentment denies that there can be anything that can't be seen by everybody...”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @sentantiq "Who would not say that only a miracle can save us?" - N.O. Brown in 'Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind; Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis', University of California Press, 1991. Webbed in 'A Space Without A Goal' @eff May 17th, 1996.Quoted by@sentantiq "Who would not say that only a miracle can save us?" - N.O. Brown in 'Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind; Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis', University of California Press, 1991. Webbed in 'A Space Without A Goal' @eff May 17th, 1996.