Science vs. Religion

[Someone here]

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

[UnbornTao]

@Someone here But what is perception? And meaning?

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.

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 reflections of what's there, and generally don't move past that. But it might not be. As a matter of 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 is, and you don't ask: what does it mean? The question itself doesn't make sense. It makes sense whenever we attribute it value and use in relation to our self-needs. As itself, an object just is. Without the act of generating meaning, it isn't found anywhere! Now, fuck my assertions and anyone else's. What is true? Answering this is a matter of personal experiential comprehension rather than of opinion, conjecture, preference, consensus, and so forth.

Edited 1 hour ago by UnbornTao