| WereKitten said: You'd have brought more weight to the discussion if you talked about Godel's works, but koans don't cut it. |
This is a videogame forum. Yes, I thought about bringing up Godel's work, but figured koans and quoting a line from the song "Stand" would be more appropriate for a website about videogames.
A point to be raised, and that is debated (it is either valid or not, irregardless of whatever sources of authority I mention and raise. Does my bring in Godel's work suddenly make the point more valid? If you know what it is, then you know the ins and outs there, and how we very likely face limitations in trying to follow math. I could mention my take on Godel here, in that apparently every logical system needs to come up with a system around it to avoid contradictions and also strive to be complete. The shorthand of this which I mentioned, is the contradiction, the koan or the paradox. In these, it shows you hit a wall. And by meditating on contradictions, or koans, one can then get insight into something larger. The answer to these requires one to go intuitively outside of one's knowledge set, to get new answers.
Anyhow, since religion and faith appear to be such horrible sources of reliable information, how about I end my post with some Spock?
Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.
--Spock Star Trek VI Final Frontier
