Explanation versus Meaning. Why? Why did this little girl die?

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Why?

Why did this little girl die?

1. Child stepped onto Rte 22.

2. Truck 450 feet away.

3. Speed 61 mph GVW 38,000 lbs.

6. Effective stopping distance 700 feet

4. Rain soaked pavement = Poor traction.

5. Driver’s reaction time = 1.75 sec.

7. Force at impact = 1200 pounds psi

Cause of death:

Cause of death:

Massive traumaMassive traumato spinal cordto spinal cord

Coroner’s ReportCoroner’s Report

“Explanation”

1. Cause and effect

2. Evidence - data

3. Stays on the surface- Latin “planus” = flat

4. Answers “How?”“How?”

The time-space box

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The tremendous successes of science and technology in the 18th century led some

scientists and philosophers to think that everything is

explainable in terms of science.

They said that anything that is not detectable and

measurable by science --

anything outside time & space -- is “nonsense,” it doesn’t exist.

The only things that The only things that reallyreally exist are exist are insideinside the “time- the “time-

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Inside the Inside the box is all box is all you getyou get!!

““The TSB is a way of The TSB is a way of seeing the world as seeing the world as

made up only of things made up only of things we can experience with we can experience with

our senses. our senses. It does not allow for the It does not allow for the existence of anything existence of anything

outside time and outside time and space.”space.”

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all around usall around usBut...But...

in our in our hearts, hearts,

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of of other thingsother things going going on...on...

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a beautiful sunset

There’s more!

These and thousands of other These and thousands of other phenomena are telling us thatphenomena are telling us that

“MeaningMeaning”

1. Beneath the “surface”

3. Mystery

2. Intuition - not logic

4. Deals with the deepest““WhyWhy””

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Lies Lies outsideoutside the T.S.B. the T.S.B.

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