'Reason' Isn't Everything

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Step we are on: Step Two

Chapter: "We Agnostics"

Subject: Faith, Intellect, Worship, Logic, Reason

Good morning. The co-authors are addressing the subject of 'reasoning". Is our intellect enough? Can we use brain power to study and learn our way to spiritual awakening?

• What would life be without faith?  Two sentences

Imagine life without faith! Were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life.

 Reasoning  - the act of one who reaches conclusions by connected thinking.  The Winston Simplified Dictionary – 1938

•  Do we believe in life?

But we believed in life - of course we did.

• Can we prove life in a purely scientific manner?

We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.

• Can we say the details of our universe mean nothing? Rest of paragraph

 Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of nothingness? Of course we couldn't. The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that. At least, so the chemist said.

• So, is our reasoning the last word?

Hence, we saw that reason isn't everything.

• How dependable is reasoning, the way we use it?

Neither is reason, as most of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds.

No matter how smart the are, how well developed and fed our intellect, how well studied or educated we are -  it is still not enough to place our full reliance on our own thoughts. So were do we place reliance? Some think reliance ought to be the fellowship, the slogans, sponsors. Stay with us and let's see what the co-authors of "Alcoholics Anonymous" thought about that.

Peace and  Love,

 Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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