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It is my hope that all believers have heard the whisper of the pilot and felt the presence of the Spirit within as we pray, worship, and commune with God and has also experienced the tender caring touch of the guardians upon the Path of Life and Destiny.
Back to the topic!?
Makalu introduced the term - logical fallacy. An important concept, related to philosophy, for those who seek to reason and learn and discuss and disagree and discover and discern, and so, very applicable to metaphysics itself. Much of our disagreement here can be understood by an appreciation of fallacy and fallacious. Consider:
103:8.2 (1140.2) The confusion about the experience of the certainty of God arises out of the dissimilar interpretations and relations of that experience by separate individuals and by different races of men. The experiencing of God may be wholly valid, but the discourse about God, being intellectual and philosophical, is divergent and oftentimes confusingly fallacious.
Our disagreements and discussions about metaphysics or philosophy should not impeach our experience of and with God. The fallacies arise primarily in the descriptions and attempted philosophical presentations about the experience rather than the actual, personal experience within. Without mota and additional experience and wisdom, our understanding, our perspective, and our descriptions lack details and concepts and context that leave our verbal and mental pictures and presentations of reality and our experience in reality rather muddled and incomplete. Sometimes, apparently, actually incoherent. But even an incoherent presentation does not demonstrate the lack of spirituality or religious experience or a personal perspective of reality that contains truth...if not fact.
I suggest you google or bing "logical fallacy" for some very interesting and helpful education. Here's a link to an enlightening presentation on the topic: https://philosophyterms.com/logical-fallacies/
Metaphysics is a personal and reasoned construction, often without any or any significant evidence of its factual validity of reality, especially regarding our explanation for the inner life and perspective of that relationship to causes and effects. Some dictionary definitions:
the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.
a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being and that includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology.
the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, esp of being and knowing. the philosophical study of the nature of reality, concerned with such questions as the existence of God, the external world, etc.
Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it, although the term is not easily defined.
The UB tells us that any philosophy which relies or leans too heavily on metaphysics is weak and fallacious. Experiential wisdom and fact and truth delivered by the religious experience based on faith and revelation and which is not twisted by fear and anxiety and the mind poisons will deliver the fruits of the spirit and a far more dependable philosophy that unifies the inner and outer experiences of the mortals which exist with the dual nature of spirit and material identity.
Please indulge me in reposting some relevant text in review and in light of consideration of the logical fallacy.
103:9.12 (1142.3) There is a reality in religious experience that is proportional to the spiritual content, and such a reality is transcendent to reason, science, philosophy, wisdom, and all other human achievements. The convictions of such an experience are unassailable; the logic of religious living is incontrovertible; the certainty of such knowledge is superhuman; the satisfactions are superbly divine, the courage indomitable, the devotions unquestioning, the loyalties supreme, and the destinies final—eternal, ultimate, and universal.
103:7.8 The truth—an understanding of cosmic relationships, universe facts, and spiritual values—can best be had through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth and can best be criticized by revelation. But revelation originates neither a science nor a religion; its function is to co-ordinate both science and religion with the truth of reality. Always, in the absence of revelation or in the failure to accept or grasp it, has mortal man resorted to his futile gesture of metaphysics, that being the only human substitute for the revelation of truth or for the mota of morontia personality.
103:6.8 Metaphysics has proved a failure; mota, man cannot perceive. Revelation is the only technique which can compensate for the absence of the truth sensitivity of mota in a material world. Revelation authoritatively clarifies the muddle of reason-developed metaphysics on an evolutionary sphere.
103:6.12 Out of his incomplete grasp of science, his faint hold upon religion, and his abortive attempts at metaphysics, man has attempted to construct his formulations of philosophy. And modern man would indeed build a worthy and engaging philosophy of himself and his universe were it not for the breakdown of his all-important and indispensable metaphysical connection between the worlds of matter and spirit, the failure of metaphysics to bridge the morontia gulf between the physical and the spiritual. Mortal man lacks the concept of morontia mind and material; and revelation is the only technique for atoning for this deficiency in the conceptual data which man so urgently needs in order to construct a logical philosophy of the universe and to arrive at a satisfying understanding of his sure and settled place in that universe.
103:6.13 Revelation is evolutionary man's only hope of bridging the morontia gulf. Faith and reason, unaided by mota, cannot conceive and construct a logical universe. Without the insight of mota, mortal man cannot discern goodness, love, and truth in the phenomena of the material world.
103:7.8 The truth—an understanding of cosmic relationships, universe facts, and spiritual values—can best be had through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth and can best be criticized by revelation. But revelation originates neither a science nor a religion; its function is to co-ordinate both science and religion with the truth of reality. Always, in the absence of revelation or in the failure to accept or grasp it, has mortal man resorted to his futile gesture of metaphysics, that being the only human substitute for the revelation of truth or for the mota of morontia personality.
I hope for an end to this last season of acrimony and for getting back on track and out of the ditch by continuation of exploring the topic of metaphysics. Especially, how mortals may have such productive and effective religious transformation by faith and truth with such faulty and unreliable perspective of universe reality or how the lack of knowledge seems irrelevant to Circle Progress and destiny fulfillment! Our metaphysics proves quite a failure we are told and yet it is important and offers both meaning and value to mind in its inherent need to understand and know, constantly in pursuit of knowing and the adjustment of perspective in its quest for discernment!!
Thanks everyone.
Bradly 
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