In Reply to: Re: Chaos theory? posted by OT2 on January 21, 2010 at 14:55:30:
Now let's prove it!
Well, of course your argument is logic, is correct, I will even accept that it is right, and yet -as you concede- it is a matter of belief.
No wonder Paul admonishes us (through hi sletter to the Colossians) to stay away from vain philosophies of men, etc. etc. You remember.
But as to what I say, the paradox of learning and knowing appear as we learn enough to ask a question. We ask a question because we don't know or our knowledge is incomplete. We may say it is unclear because we are missing something, or because we have not yet made sense of the thing we learned. The issue is in the learning process as much as it is in the mental structure that retains the thing we know. For this purpose two people may think they know the same thing because the same thing was presented to both of them. Both of them may have learned the same thing and yet not know the same thing because the mental structure that encapsulates the learned thing is different.
So, when we learn something and as a result ask questions, those questions expose our ignorance. Our ignorance is never overcome because there are always more questions. Questions are triggered by knowledge, questions are manifestations of our ignorance, therefore the more we know the more ignorant we are. The only people who know it all are those who know nothing.
Likewise, those who realize how little they know know enough, thus know more.
And borrowing your word, my friend, it is a matter of belief. Many of us don't believe in God, whatever fruits they get out of that belief is theirs and not for me to take. I believe in God and in His son Jesus the Christ, these are the fruits of my own journey, as is the conclusion I have arrived about knowledge and that I shared (maybe not very well) above.
Peace.