Psychology: There is no cat, you're really searching for your mother

Zen: is like being in a dark room chilling with a dark cat.

Everyday life is like being in a dark room and thinking "Thank God, now I can take a nap."

Taxes: is like being in a dark room and hearing, 'Can we use the cat as a business expense?'

I take a lot of comfort in science, rather than faith or mysticism. I like learning about the world around me, I like learning about people, their cultures, their experiences, and how that all affects their lives, their thoughts, motivations, urges, issues. I would rather have an understanding of my world and my fellow creatures than to rely on nothing but faith in myths and mythical creatures that no one can produce in the flesh. Especially since the groups who perpetuate those myths are controlled by humans, usually humans with self-aggrandizing motives and agendas to gain power and influence. And, of course, wealth. Snake oil salesmen promoting myths, manipulating and exploiting people who are weak minded, weak willed, or simply experiencing heavy difficulties that are making them vulnerable. To the point of convincing them that babies are born sinful, many of the horrible things done to people are all their own fault. WT Actual F? Way to f**k with someone’s head and totally screw them up—-and over, by constantly asking for donations and tithes, and passing the plate around on Sunday, even if your congregation can barely pay their rent, while the church has millions or billions, all tax free. Yeah, I much prefer science, which allows me to spot fakes and manipulators, and not fall for magic tricks and mind f***s.

Too often, theology is some other person claiming to have found it, and then telling others they can't find it without their guidance, often imploring them to pay for the tour.

Where does Schrödinger's box come into this 🤔

In shadows deep, we cast a searching light To find the hidden cat of ebon shade; Yet see we not the creature's form outright, But only what reflected beams have made. Our eyes perceive but echoes of the true, Through senses and through tools our sight is bent; Thus science strives to render all anew, Constrained by means through which our minds invent. We ponder then, can truth be fully known, If all our grasp is but a filtered guise? As Kant once mused, the "thing-in-itself" is shown Not as it is, but as it meets our eyes. Though veiled, the world invites us to explore; Through seeking, we transcend what came before.

Every sentence, I could feel the black cat come wondering up and bumping my knee. If it had said forrest instead of room, it would make a whole lot more sence.

Science is "The cat is both in the room and not in the room"

OMG this!!!

This is uh kinda offensive to religious people.

Philosophy is more like being in a dark room and asking what a room is. Metaphysics is more like being in a dark room and asking what is the meaning of darkness. Theology is more like being in a dark room and asking who made the room, and how can I contact them. Science is more like being in a dark room and asking if it is just as dark in one part of the room as it is in another part, and then figuring out how to measure the the minuscule differences.

I'd say science is more a mashup of all four. First you have to decide if there probably is or isn't a black cat to even look for. Then if you believe there must be one, then you break out the flashlights.

Nice

Horror is being in a dark room looking for a black cat and hearing a faint *hurk hurk hurk* somewhere nearby.

I know there are possibilities, but I can't believe in them unless I know there is a basis of fact, or reality. I can never understand people who blindly believe in something with having no knowledge of a subject, just believing someone else. I think it must be comforting and wish I could do it. My teachers (even now) got irritated when they state something and I ask 'why?'.

yes. now make sure everyone reads it.

INTERNET is like looking into a dark room and accidentally finding the cat using a Fleshlight.