More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God
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GeorgesII, I know what your saying. Its called "Theory and Practice"
Example: A Theory may not work in practice and also something can work in practice and not in Theory.
An Example Story. This is a Thinking Exercise based on a true story.
A tribe elder in africa was telling his fellow tribes people a story in early spring. The story was about a specific tree, who's wood is used to make a canoes so the tribes people can fish in the river.
The tribes elder told his tribes people that when this tree bares fruit, evil spirits live in this tree. If you make a canoe from the wood of this tree when evil spirits live in it, the Evil spirits will course you and you will die.
The European Missionary stationed with the tribes people thought that story was absurd and ridiculous.
To prove the tribe elder wrong he decided to build the canoe against the tribes beliefs. He picked a tree that bore fruit and started to make the canoe. He chiseled out the wood to form the canoe with anger until he was finally done. With his canoe finished he proclaimed "see there is no evil spirits" as he floated his canoe and jumped in to paddle into deeper waters. Minutes after the canoe capsized and the european missionary drowned. The tribes people proclaimed "it is true that evil spirits lived in the tree".
Why did the canoe sink? as it turned out when this tree bares fruit, certain very small worms use the tree for breeding thus making the wood unfit to use for a canoe.
The European Missionary unaware and ignorant dismissed the story without trying to figure out the essence of why they told this story.
The tribes people may have been wrong in theory but where right in practice.
This is some of the issues people face when they are arrogant in thinking about belief systems.
- many wise words.necromation
- tribe elders, missionaries, canoes... what a lot of bollocksebertzjaw
- noble savage bollocks.ebertzjaw
- I think the tribesman would feel patronised as fuck by this story********