How can I convince someone that the observation that our world is an oblate spheroid is an indisputable fact? How can I be honest and compassionate in saying to someone who insists that it is flat that "that too is true"?
Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Charudatt Prabhudesai <[email protected]> wrote: > Santosh - > > There may be difference in how various people define the > word 'Fact'. > > Whereas a spiritualist does not refute Scientist's > definition, but includes > it saying "That too is true", Science, which is by nature a > reductionist or dialectical > stream of knowledge, can not afford to be so charitable. > Open-mindedness is being charitable towards even that which > threatens to 'prove' > the truth of your being to be false or even unnecessary. > The flower of compassion blooms > is that clime. >
