Post by chingho on Jul 30, 2016 1:31:57 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
In the book “The Unknowing Sage: The Life and Work of Faqir Chand”, the author David Lane describes the meeting he had with Faqir Chand when he was twenty-two-year-old. Lane writes in his book, “Although Faqir Chand had a rather large and devoted following, he absolutely disclaimed himself of any miracles attributed to his spiritual work.” Faqir Chand was a very unassertive person that he thought all the miracles are made by people themselves instead of him. He believed everyone has the ability to make miracle, they just do not realize it yet. He did not agree he helped his followers make through their difficulties, it is the person’s own insistence helps he or she finds a way to solve the problem and let it becomes a miracle. All the beliefs that people have－in Faqir Chand’s eyes－are ignorant of the miracles.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
Philosophy could be label as the main subject for people to discuss what knowledge we know and what is unknown. Philosophers find out the question that need to be prove, and then scientists try to prove the question they find. Science is connected to philosophy. The fuzzy region in philosophy could be easily explain through the numbers that science use. For example, the origin of human beings. Back to the old time, people often think of the question of where and how people exist in this world. Philosophers tries to find a way to explain, so they began to think. They have the answer after the biologist Charles Darwin found out the theory of evolution. In the other hand, if the scientists never try to answer the questions that philosophers come up with, then philosophy would be a subject that only have discuss but no conclusion. This is the reason why people say, “Philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
In the book “The Unknowing Sage: The Life and Work of Faqir Chand”, the author David Lane describes the meeting he had with Faqir Chand when he was twenty-two-year-old. Lane writes in his book, “Although Faqir Chand had a rather large and devoted following, he absolutely disclaimed himself of any miracles attributed to his spiritual work.” Faqir Chand was a very unassertive person that he thought all the miracles are made by people themselves instead of him. He believed everyone has the ability to make miracle, they just do not realize it yet. He did not agree he helped his followers make through their difficulties, it is the person’s own insistence helps he or she finds a way to solve the problem and let it becomes a miracle. All the beliefs that people have－in Faqir Chand’s eyes－are ignorant of the miracles.
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
Philosophy could be label as the main subject for people to discuss what knowledge we know and what is unknown. Philosophers find out the question that need to be prove, and then scientists try to prove the question they find. Science is connected to philosophy. The fuzzy region in philosophy could be easily explain through the numbers that science use. For example, the origin of human beings. Back to the old time, people often think of the question of where and how people exist in this world. Philosophers tries to find a way to explain, so they began to think. They have the answer after the biologist Charles Darwin found out the theory of evolution. In the other hand, if the scientists never try to answer the questions that philosophers come up with, then philosophy would be a subject that only have discuss but no conclusion. This is the reason why people say, “Philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”