tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640940937476188368.post8714997587826868455..comments2023-09-01T06:33:45.354-05:00Comments on Gimme Bliss: How Having Faith Can Lead You to BlissTiffany Hamburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215028451823189173noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640940937476188368.post-63036990984783233242008-01-16T23:35:00.000-06:002008-01-16T23:35:00.000-06:00I live my LIFE with FREEDOMexperien...I live my LIFE<BR/> with FREEDOM<BR/>experiencing ETERNAL BLISS<BR/><BR/>www.lifefreedombliss.com<BR/>it's for real!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640940937476188368.post-48199619327410563942007-09-11T22:09:00.000-05:002007-09-11T22:09:00.000-05:00You write: I had studied science extensively, and ...You write: I had studied science extensively, and in my search for meaning, I found that somewhere along the way, science's objectivity (or its appearance of objectivity) became my Rosetta Stone.<BR/><BR/>I respond: In college I majored in Physics and Philosophy, honestly believing that if I mastered those subjects I would 'understand everything.' Not only did I graduate without gaining enlightenment, I also graduated without my sense of wonder. It was something I suppressed, traded away as being frivolous. I spent the next several years trying to force meaning out of those subjects, starting and stopping not one but three different Masters programs (two in Physics, one in Philosophy). The more I tried to force myself back to these sources for deeper meaning, the more unhappy I became. I was lost. It took years and some terrible experiences for me to understand that what I had lost was right here within me all along, if I just gave myself permission to look for it. The return to wonder brought me back to the sense of life as an amazing, ongoing, and complex experience. <BR/><BR/>Setting aside my worship of logic allowed me to acknowledge my emotions and my intuition. I found faith, not in Logic or God or the Universe, but in the idea that my meaning is here, with me. All I need to do is allow meaning to make itself manifest in whatever guise it sees fit. <BR/><BR/><BR/>As far as the 'appearance of objectivity' goes- this could be an entire conversation. The very questions that science asks are subjective, at least in the sense that a <I>person</I> poses the questions which science seeks to answer. And what is that but human subjectivity choosing the very trajectory of science itself?<BR/><BR/>- ErzsebetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com