Science vs. Religion

[Someone here]

@Atb210201 Heroin also makes people happy..so....

[UnbornTao]

@Someone here But what are perception and meaning?

Intellect and intuition aren't the only tools available, despite our cultural presumption; direct consciousness is possible, hence I brought up the historical antecedent. Oversimplified, the absolute is like a sheet of paper, while the content of the sheet is the relative. Everything is absolute, including the relative, and what allows for the existence and recognition of the relative as distinct, is that it has a particular form -- whatever’s painted on the sheet is some form, that is, it exists relative to what it is not.

As a meditation, take a small object in your vicinity and ask yourself: What is it, independent of me? What is there as a presence?

We operate on the assumption that what we perceive is an accurate reflection of what’s there and generally don’t move past that. However, this might not be the case. In fact, to tackle the question of meaning, where is it found? In your relationship with and experience of things, hence, in your mind. A tree exists. Asking what the tree means does not make sense in itself. What exactly are we asking by that?

The question of what something means applies whenever value and use are attributed to the object, in relation to one’s self-needs. As itself, the object just is. Without the act of generating meaning, it isn’t found anywhere! In relation to itself, the question of what the object means is nonsensical, superficial. It could be said that it exists, hence its meaning is that it is. I suspect you'll hear that as a negative, yet that would still be operating from within the meaning framework. It doesn't mean anything that it doesn't mean anything. You are free to create any meaning and purpose in life.

Now, fuck my assertions and anyone else’s. What, then, is the case? This is about insight rather than conjecture, preference, consensus, and so forth.

Edited 1 minute ago by UnbornTao

[Atb210201]

2 hours ago, Someone here said:

@Atb210201 Heroin also makes people happy..so....

Does it have bad side effects?