JoB
wake..
i live in a subjective world that has been quantified objectively by scientists who have little or no actual experience of that world..
the world of physical pain.
their assumptions about the experience of pain color the way in which they hear me (the collective me) objectively relate it…
yet, their assumptions about the experience of pain are what is used to treat pain patients… resulting in some really stupid advice that i have actually been given by physicians.. get a hobby.. have an affair.. just get on with it..
when you walk into a doctor’s office because your pain is bad enough that you can no longer walk… going for a walk, engaging in hobbies and/or having sex with strangers is probably not going to be effective therapy…
but their subjective observation is that patients get worse if you ask them real questions about how the pain affects them is because they tell you things they hadn’t complained about when they walked in the door…
and.. that patients who receive their advice must get better because they stop asking them to treat their pain…
both “reasonable” conclusions if you accept the basic assumptions underlying them..
but incredibly ineffective when it comes to treating physical pain.
You might wonder what pain has to do with Ocam’s Razor or with a belief in God..
it’s simple.. once you have come to an opinion about something and reinforced that with the opinions of other like minded people.. it is rather difficult to comprehend the possible validity of that which contradicts that which you think you know and is also outside your experience.
does that make my pain.. or my experience of God any less real?
no.. but it definitely does affect your understanding of my experience…
and coincidentally.. mine of yours
I fail to understand how anyone can actually see this world and experience the people in it and not recognize that there is something larger happening here than man’s pursuit of his own personal best interests…
but there you go…
hubby would agree with you
and i .. i hold out for the mystery.. the un-quantified unknown…