http://www.cutsinger.net/wordpress2/?p=150 Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.cutsinger.net/wordpress2/?p=150#comment-8165 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:15:56 +0000 http://www.cutsinger.net/wordpress2/?p=150#comment-8165 Our knowledge has an increasingly less dependable foundation the farther we move away from eternal and unchanging ideas, for then what we know is only more and more about ever changing things. Data and information about ephemera are useless, especially compared to wisdom or spiritual knowledge that is not conceptual but permeates the whole person, body and soul. Physical things, understood right side up, are accidental abstractions of substantive principles or ideas rather than “concrete” reality from which ideas are drawn out more or less arbitrarily. Our knowledge has an increasingly less dependable foundation the farther we move away from eternal and unchanging ideas, for then what we know is only more and more about ever changing things. Data and information about ephemera are useless, especially compared to wisdom or spiritual knowledge that is not conceptual but permeates the whole person, body and soul. Physical things, understood right side up, are accidental abstractions of substantive principles or ideas rather than “concrete” reality from which ideas are drawn out more or less arbitrarily.

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