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If the observer looks up and does not see dark clouds, or if he runs for shelter but it does not rain, then there is fresh occasion to question the utility or the validity of his knowledge base. But we must leave our foulweather friend for now and defer the logical analysis of this testing phase to another occasion.
If the observer looks up and does not see dark clouds, or if he runs for shelter but it does not rain, then there is fresh occasion to question the utility or the validity of his knowledge base. But we must leave our foulweather friend for now and defer the logical analysis of this testing phase to another occasion.
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"Animals respond nobly to the urge of life, but only man can attain the [[art of living]], albeit the majority of mankind only [[experience]] the animal urge to live. Animals know only this blind and instinctive urge; man is capable of transcending this urge to natural function. Man may elect to live upon the high plane of [[intelligence|intelligent]] [[art]], even that of [[celestial]] joy and [[spiritual]] [[ecstasy]]. Animals make no '''inquiry''' into the purposes of life; therefore they never worry, neither do they commit suicide. Suicide among men testifies that such beings have emerged from the purely animal stage of existence, and to the further [[fact]] that the exploratory efforts of such [[human being]]s have failed to attain the artistic levels of mortal experience. Animals know not the [[meaning]] of life; man not only possesses capacity for the re[[cognition]] of [[value]]s and the comprehension of [[meaning]]s, but he also is conscious of the meaning of meanings--he is self-conscious of [[insight]]." [http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper160.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper160.html&line=39#mfs]
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