furry hater wrote:
kinda a unserious thought but here are my reasons:
1. there's involvement around the system of math
2. there's a holy book (academica)
3. discussion about how math functions and the types of math still exist and have been solved (ex. x^0 = 1)
4. it is unknown about how the rest of it works
5. people like math while people don't like it and there are extreme examples of both sides
This is a really loaded post that’s worth deconstructing because you bring up a point that’s flawed but it comes from a place of real concern.
While I don’t know exactly what you mean without your elaboration, I’ll talk about math and religion’s similarity in that they are human abstractions derived from reality in order to work with them on a meta level.
So math is an abstraction we use to quantify the world around us, it allows us to understand the certain patterns and behaviors in the world and gives us the ability to predict and perceive outcomes.
Religion/Philosophy is an abstraction from reality as well. It tells a set of stories that culminate into a meta protagonist (Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, etc.) and those abstractions become tools to help us live life in a way that aligns with reality (Don’t distort the truth which includes stealing, murder, etc.).
Math shows us how we can use abstraction to interact with the world and religion/philosophy shows us how to conduct ourselves in it. They are both very important because math can’t give us what philosophy can and philosophy can’t perform the function that math serves. Just because they are both abstractions from a human-construction doesn’t mean they are the same thing categorically.
I’d love to talk more about this because this is a very real conundrum for people and it’s worth talking about.
