{"id":197,"date":"2014-03-23T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2014-08-11T22:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:16:30","slug":"water-slides-and-plato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/water-slides-and-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Slides and Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever since my days in youth ministry I have always enjoyed a good slip and slide.\u00a0 A little soap, a good long sheet of plastic, a steep hill and a whole lot of water is all you need to have a whole lot of fun.\u00a0 So when I heard of the “Crazy Insane Water Slide”<\/strong> video posted on YouTube a few years back, I had to check it out.\u00a0 That night as I pulled up the video, a group of friends who were enjoying a meal at our home began to watch with me.\u00a0 As we began watching\u00a0 the supposed class experiment by a few college physic majors we couldn\u2019t believe our eyes.\u00a0 Upon watching the video, half the crowd was shocked, amazed at the risk and the shear audacity that these college students had pulled off what seemed near impossible.\u00a0 The other half of our guests that evening immediately called foul<\/strong>, stating succinctly that the video had to be a hoax.\u00a0 Watch and decide for yourself.<\/p>\n

This past week while reading A Brief Guide To Ideas by William Raeper and Linda Edwards I was struck by Plato\u2019s understanding that the world is divided into \u201creality\u201d and \u201cappearance\u201d (the one and the many).\u00a0 More specifically, Plato\u2019s theory on knowledge being what we seek, but opinion is usually what we have.\u00a0 The following are two key insights which emerged while processing through Plato\u2019s divided reality.<\/p>\n

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The visible world\u2026<\/strong> The visible world can quite often be deceiving.\u00a0 A few days ago my daughter Grace and I went to a large Fish store located in our area.\u00a0 Inside the store there are many exotic fish and tanks.\u00a0 One of the most unique out of all the tanks is their Sting Ray tank.\u00a0 While standing beside the tank the other day, a sting ray piercing through the water caught my attention and made me jump back from the wall of the tank.\u00a0 Now, I know it wasn\u2019t close, but all the same, it looked real.\u00a0 Grace immediately began to laugh, while stating, \u201cDad, from my vantage point, you weren\u2019t even within 10 ft. of the stingray.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes what we think we are seeing isn\u2019t fully reality.<\/p>\n

The intelligible world\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0 A world beyond.\u00a0 The intelligible world is one that moves beyond the senses.\u00a0 This is a world in which all is fact, provable knowledge.\u00a0 Not just a hunch, or I believe I saw!\u00a0 Those who live by an intelligible world mindset have the need to confirm, question and pursue alternative solutions.\u00a0 Once questions have been formed and answered a more concise understanding can be arrived at for the cognitive questioner.\u00a0 Within this reality one is not just comfortable with seeing, but rather validation through concrete rational processing.<\/p>\n

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The next day I began a quest to unearth whether the “Crazy Insane Water Slide”<\/strong> was real or a hoax.\u00a0 After researching for a period of time, what I came to find was the video was truly a fake.\u00a0 And not only that, it was produced by Microsoft as a promotional piece.\u00a0 Yet, many still watch and believe all the same.\u00a0 Are you a believer?\u00a0 How quickly do you assume all is reality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since my days in youth ministry I have always enjoyed a good slip and slide.\u00a0 A little soap, a good long sheet of plastic, a steep hill and a whole lot of water is all you need to have a whole lot of fun.\u00a0 So when I heard of the “Crazy Insane Water Slide” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,87],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dminlgp","tag-raepersmith","cohort-lgp3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}