Reply #10: Here's Some Sincere Unsolicited Advice For You

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You keep posting threads with claims of bridge building. That's an honorable premise. My advice, however, is that when truly trying to engage in bridge building one must attempt to take two sides separated by a gap and have them meet comfortably in the middle.

When I read many of your threads that claim an intent on bridge building, I too often instead see an attempt at trying to stretch one of the sides to come over to meet the other side. In such a case, it is likely to be expected that the side attempted to be stretched will snap back in reverse with force and may end up even farther apart then when you started in the first place.

To truly engage in bridge building, one must play give and take. One must have a true objectivity of both sides of the situation with willingness to be flexible in their thinking in order to find the common ground that both can agree on.

To illustrate what I'm saying, you'll notice the OP does nothing to boost up science at all or find the common ground with science as it relates to spirituality. Instead of bridge building, it seems more of an exercise of "here's why I stand on the side I stand on. If you can learn to agree with these reasons as I do and become enlightened to my way, we no longer will argue". That's not really how bridge building is supposed to work. You must be as willing to give as you are to take, and as willing to give on your position as much as you are asking others to give on theirs.

That's my unsolicited yet sincere advice. It is sound and of good intent. I hope you'll use it.

As far as this thread goes, I couldn't exactly determine the true argument being presented. Science absolutely has its own value and is indispensable in our lives. But spirituality is on a plane all its own and is unrelated to science in my opinion. I've always regarded Science as being of the physical realm, while spirituality deals with levels beyond the physical plane. I think they each can compliment each other, but cannot replace each other. I'm just not sure what the specifics of the arguments are in your OP and am not sure if there truly were any made. Regardless, I still hope you will take the above mentioned advice to heart anyway.