Posted by bill on October 30, 2000 at 19:10:31:
In Reply to: Re: God is a metaphor? posted by Laurence on October 29, 2000 at 05:37:49:
:Amasingly this is exactly the subject people voted for as a topic at
the last meeting of our little philosophy club...And the discussion
of course suffered from a huge lack of precise data and an over
abundancy of big generalisations...
Richard Feynman (Nobel prize winner and worker on Manhattan project)
explained that phenomenon in his hilarious book "Surely you must
be joking Mr. Feynman." He said that you can only have a discussion about
something when the parties know little or nothing about the subject.
If someone really knows about the topic it turns into a lecture or
teaching session. That's why discussions about religion arise...the
participants know little or nothing about it, no matter how well schooled
they are.