Structurally sound assumptions may be made by simply denying all assumptions that may be made until they prove themselves otherwise. This is why science is still so relevant because science is the purest natural expression of logic. However, such an important distinction and framing needs the further question: for what does logic serve human beings? The straightest answer I can give you is, while some will claim that a sound assumption denies its opposite, the truth is that a denial of the truth denies itself, and that’s why the truth is true, since Socrates. The establishment of truth has been difficult since then. Do you follow what I’m saying? Logically speaking, logic is truth, but truth is not logic. So we enter a dialectic. The distinction but not difference between facts and actualities is the difference in making sense of it here. The truth is a fact that became an actuality.
In the month of July, — The Honeybee from Religious Symbolism to Enlightenment Why was Deity associated with the honeybee? There’s a sort of speculative fiction book that explores the origin of religion in ancient Mesopotamia through a sort of meta-narrative of science fiction, and on the surface level, I’m drawing from that novel. ( Fall , Neal Stephenson.) But storyline aside, there’s an interesting take there on the origin of the connection between Deity and the honeybee, showing how practices of worship situated around agricultural rites eventually foregrounded the importance of the honeybee, and that insect and its hive became a symbol of deity, perhaps brought about through the actions of devotees to a specific Canaanite religious sect, but also through a generalized familiarity among the population of the ancient Near East with the honeybee’s pollination abilities and the honey it produced, which could have strengthened its position as a symbol, even among those who...
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