Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SophiaCycles Undergeneralization, too? T.S. Eliot, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality...the heavy burden of the growing soul." Bohm, an exemplary, secular personification of the revealing function of the metaphysical intellect, noted a reality as large as the limits of our experience.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 Jun 2021

@nils_gilman The distinction between science and scientism, crucial here. What makes a religion, as Emile Durkheim clarified, is the designation of a sacred dimension which is not to be touched, investigated or interfered with. Scientism, as religion, a comprehensive cult.

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Quoted by@antoniogm Which naturally begs a present question. How’s the choice going? This? God's plan made a hopeful beginning, But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story Will end in God's glory, But, at present, the other side's winning. - Anon., New York Times Magazine, 1946