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From actual observations to philosophical speculations to metaphysical convictions!
We are faced with an immense living universe. We are made to observe and to conclude. Even little children want to know why should there be rain and who is God.
Being big children ourselves we have the natural instinctive curiosity to look about us and wonder, observe and conclude.
We undergo this experience and we make our own ideas according to our own understanding and reflection. Thoughts are merelyrepresentations ofour interaction with the universe and conclusions from it.Every individual has his own share of his own reflections, about the universe, what is it, where did it come from, how did it come about andwhat are we doing here.
But, most people, if not all, cannot tell who are we, how come we are here and not elsewhere, who put us here and what's it all about. Whether we conjecture and gues to the utmost of philosophical speculations or we try to pry into the mysteries of this universe and cannot find anything solid to base our philosophybut have to move into the hemisphere of metaphysical thinking, we all try to understand by reflecting and thinking.
We are forced to conclude with regard to these questions and when our conclusions are not up to our expectations we start speculating into metaphysical plausibility. Science is unable to find answers at the time being. It stops at the frontiers of philosophy and metaphysics.
The scriptures tell us God created the heavens and the earth and what is in between. God made us to observe and gave us some time to do it, enough time that is. For some others, and there are many of them, such speculations are unscientifically illogical conclusions and they land in philosophy. But at times, if not most of it, philosophy part company with metaphysics, and metaphysics become our spaceship to the unknown. The observable remains the spring board for either perspective. For the donkeys on two legs, limited to scientific discoveries, they reject philosophy and metaphysics.
The physical sensible leads, by necessity, to the intelligible. We have toobserve and conclude whether there is a God or not, here science is limited to what can be proven,then metaphysical belief or disbelief takes over and we are left to our own convictions, lack of proof or disproof.
Science is not only limited to the perceptible but it ends up in the intelligible, without being able to answer ultimate questions like the meaning of the presence of the universe, its origin or its directionality norour ownfinality. It shuts up itself on speculations, but these are inevitable for the human race.
At best, we remain marginals, flabbergasted by the landscape, but unable to resolve the unfathomable enigma.
We are creatures of observations, masters of speculations andslaves of convictions!
