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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Someone has said that a philosopher looking for the ultimate truth is like a blind man on a dark night searching in a subterranean cave for a black cat that is not there. Those Gnostics, however, were theologians rather than philosophers, and so—they found the cat!
“Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by Lewis Browne 1931.
BUT the best version ever is from the great Dave Allen
LenHazell53
Level 9
Oct 5, 2022
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Then:
The universe is largely dark.
Life is like being in a dark room.
Quantum physics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat in a black box and the box, the cat, the room and you are either there or not.
Agnosticism is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there and when a theist says, "I found it", you can't decide whether to talk to a quantum physicist, a fairy at the bottom of the garden, or a supreme being.
Zen buddhism is like the room isn't dark and the cat isn't black it's your perception and ability to describe and comprehend.
waitingforgodo
Level 8
Oct 4, 2022
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Photography (a few decades ago) was like being in a darkroom and waiting for the image of a cat to appear in a tray full of smelly chemicals.
skado
Level 9
Oct 4, 2022
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I remember that dark room well. When you turned on the lights huge roaches ran everywhere.
@Pralina1 they were attracted by the water that mixed in with the chemicals. They were all some special breed all of them were at least an inch and a half long. I forgot to mention it was one of my first jobs and one of my functions was stripping negatives. My boss loved to introduce me as his stripper.
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