Joe Nation wrote:I'm thinking about changing the name of my blog to gelatinous mass of opinion. I like it. I like saying it --gelatinous mass -- oh boy. Thanks for the idea.
Ideas and opinions, that's all we've really got, all of us. Some of us use a different gelatinous mass to acquire, inquire, shape and form those ideas and opinions. They help us to comprehend real life, real life.
Joe(There is so much irony in that last sentence, it weighs a pound.)Nation
Glad you like it. Haven't copyrighted it, so feel free. It really bears no resemblance to the Catholic liturgy of nearly the same name, but they might give you a bad time about it.
As for ideas, I like 'em. Opinions too, and I've got plenty, as anyone who's talked with me knows.
But they are not all we have really. There's also facts. And besides facts there is knowledge and experience.
If I have met you, I will not be able to "prove" it scientifically the next day. There is no empirical method that will reproduce our meeting that will satisfy a group of inquiring scientists.
But it is a fact and is part of my experience. I now know you, if only slightly. How then is that type of knowledge communicated and validated?
If a person knows God, you may not be able to "prove" it empirically, but you certainly cannot disprove it either for the same reason. That type of knowledge is not validated in a "scientific" way. So if we limit ourselves to "science" , then there are scads of things that we will not "know".
Real (I'd like to see Joe go for the Guiness Book of Records for the longest parenthetical in his signature. I don't know if he has time to do this but it would be fun to see him try and I would certainly cheer him on. I promise not to try to outdo him, 'cuz I'm gonna be busy.) Life
