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Truth Like The Blanket That Leaves Your Feet Cold

  • BHUUF 2201 3rd Street Rapid City, SD, 57701 United States (map)

Lay Leader:

Program Presenter: Ethan Gutierrez

Program Title: Truth Like The Blanket That Leaves Your Feet Cold

Description: Does god play dice riding on an schizophrenic beam of light?  Does the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences give us insight into universal truth?  Ethan Gutierrez will make no attempt to answer these and many other fun questions as he invites you to play with him in that divine state of questioning.  

“Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence of the world* is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of.  Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.  To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of his great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation.”

G. Spencer-Brown

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