好,最後,我說一下,量子力學給科學帶來的根本的啟發。人們經常講科學在於實證。就從電子來說。物理界,Heisenberg Uncertainty法則,早就得出結論,測量電子,你不能同時測量一個電子的位置和這個電子的momentum。“How does knowing which slit the electron passed through change the pattern? The answer is fundamentally important—measurement affects the system being observed. Information can be lost, and in some cases it is impossible to measure two physical quantities simultaneously to exact precision. For example, you can measure the position of a moving electron by scattering light or other electrons from it. Those probes have momentum themselves, and by scattering from the electron, they change its momentum in a manner that loses information. There is a limit to absolute knowledge, even in principle.”
will, fate都是人用來作為一種表達。也就是你說的一體兩面,但是是以人為中心。我只是跳出來,因為人的意識,you are the whole world, the whole world is you。我經常說我是活在自己的世界裡,就是想說明,世界是through my eyes, ears and through 我的感知。但是那是不夠的,人需要跟自然,別的人互動,交流,那是love的最高境界。但是這一切還是在一個setup和系統裡才能展開,宗教在我看來只是某一個setup,僅此而已。
Wow, fate vs. will, sounds like a dilemma from dualism. Although I tend to be agnostic about many things myself, the overlapping of those two might be very significant.
(weird, Microsoft Pinyin input is broken tonight on my work laptop, my free will of typing Chinese tonight is defeated by a fate. Who is doing this to me? Just kidding, I think I'm just too lazy to fix it before I decide to sleep, which happens to be another will of accepting the fate that human races need sleep)
No, 我不認為個人的作用有多大,我素來說的是個人需要盡力,而不是認為個人能起多大作用。盡力是對上帝負責,盡本分,上帝是掌權者。甚至連領袖,我是從神興起這些人來看,如果不是張三會是李四,都是神手中的工具,deliver或judge的。
我們最大的分歧是我信耶穌基督,你還不信。我認為只有信和不信之別,沒有純與不純說法。我自己也是從完全不信,到對神有各種看法,比如我曾經認為神是一種high energy 的某種存在諸如此類,雖然我那時已經受洗了,但我沒有encounter God,神是我腦子中通過imagination create的存在,這和經歷神之後完全更新認知是完全不一樣的。
這恐怕是你我最大的分歧。我對個人的作用從來都不會“誇大”, 個人是渺小的,無足輕重的。是集體,是setup造成所有的人間問題。恰恰,我的疑問在於是setup的original intention,比如slavery。我說的生兒養老,不是指人間常情,而是指一種機制,一個setup,intended goal,那是slavery,我並不是說好還是不好,只是指出what it is.
在我看來,C. S. Lewis和他的同類的偉大還是單一的。他們的局限在於在setup裡面,不能從setup外面來看。tyranny是setup的產物,也是creation的產物,是creation setup造成的。至於多種不同的tyranny,其實恰好說明了,creation也可能是多種的。tyranny creation,比如用usury來控制人,我認為不能僅僅就用一個setup里的sin來理解,也許creation setup就是有一種tyranny分類的。這不更能解釋they do so with the approval of their own conscience?
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
現在無論是基督教的異化還是其他各類spirituality, 無非是換話題,將人類不能面對的God要求人對自己的sin承擔accountability的主題換成其他話題——人類是否可以自救?從sin的角度來說,當然不能,born in sin, 想脫離sin, how?基督教信仰帶來的信息是信耶穌讓神重生——born again.