I would rather believe in ghosts and gods than fallacies.

"It's unprecedented in the middle of the night, and Mo Wen people ask ghosts and gods". In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin's poem "Jia Sheng" made the story of Jia Yi, a banquet hosted by Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, spread through the ages. However, the poet's enlightenment works do not necessarily conform to historical facts. According to historical records, Jia Yi was a "doctor" of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, similar to today's "Senate" or "consultant". At a young age, he was not only brilliant, but also dared to tell the truth. His theory was also inclined to the disadvantages of the times and was highly valued by Emperor China.

Jia Yi's policies covered a wide range, many of which were adopted by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and there were many political essays, which not only criticized that time, but also had a great influence on later generations, such as "Public Security Policy". In the seventh year of Emperor Wendi, after a sacrificial ceremony, Emperor Wendi and Jia Yi talked in a room dedicated to the gods. Because just after the sacrifice, Wendi and Jia Yi talked a lot about ghosts and gods. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty found that Jia Yi was not only outstanding in literary talent, but also well-founded in political theory, and had a good study of the metaphysics of ghosts and gods. He appreciates and values Jia Yi more.

Although the history books don't record the details of "asking ghosts and gods" in detail, Jia Yi's proposal of etiquette reform different from that of Qin shows that Jia Yi should understand the metaphysics of Zhouyi, the Five Elements and ghosts and gods. For example, Qin Shang's water is virtuous, its color is black, and Qin's clothing color is still black. Jia Yi suggested changing the costume color of Han Dynasty to yellow, because yellow represents the land of five elements, and soil replaces water. Therefore, the Han Dynasty should respect the earth and morality.

In ancient times, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods was the most important thing in etiquette, and divination was a necessary reference for making important decisions. Sacrifice is now regarded as superstition and divination as absurdity. However, I have reservations about this. Sacrifice and divination can obviously not be explained clearly by scientific methods of studying concrete sensible substances, nor can they be explained clearly by philosophy of studying intangible existence. However, it would be superficial to regard sacrifice and divination from ancient times to the present as feudal superstitions.

Scientific method is used to study concrete perceptual existence, that is, substances mentioned in the category of natural science. The main research object of philosophy is intangible existence, such as the most fundamental existence and law that governs the existence of all things, such as the universal essential law of some natural existence. In addition to these tangible and intangible beings, there are still some fields, such as sacrifice or divination, which science and philosophy cannot understand clearly. For these unknown fields, we can't deny their existence and rationality just because we don't know the rationality clearly. In the history of Chinese and foreign philosophy, both the known and the unknown belong to the category of "knowledge", that is, the so-called "knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing".

Admitting ignorance and respecting the unknown is the realistic attitude. Now, we can't deny the existence or rationality of mysterious fields such as ghosts and gods just because we don't understand them. Moreover, these aspects of human practice are much longer than the period of scientific and philosophical understanding.

In ancient times, few people were proficient in divination and ghosts and gods. The so-called "wizards" and "Qin" in history are such people. We really don't understand why they can predict the future and understand the instructions of ghosts and gods, but thousands of years of practical experience of human beings can show that their effectiveness should not be low. Practice test is an important part of scientific method. Since thousands of years of practical experience have proved that it is effective, even according to scientific principles, we dare not completely deny its rationality.

There are really too few such people. And it's hard to prove it before it happens. Therefore, this line is also full of "false roads" and "liars". Their nonsense, even the serious consequences of destroying people's wealth and lives, has become evidence that some atheists or scientists attack these mysterious technologies that are difficult to explain clearly.

I don't want to continue to demonstrate some reasonable attributes of these mysterious technologies here. It can be said that since these mysterious fields cannot be clearly understood by rational cognitive methods such as science or philosophy, there is no need for me to make a theory here. For these mysterious fields, I want to explain an attitude, that is, since they are unknown mysterious fields, since they exist, and since they have been accompanied by human practical experience for thousands of years, then we cannot completely deny them.

On the contrary, there are some things that have been regarded as the truth of human cognition, but after long-term practice, they are enough to prove their mistakes, absurdity and even evil. For such a thing, as a person with normal intelligence, it is obviously impossible to continue to believe.

If you have to choose from these absurd and wrong things and mysterious technologies that have been proved by human practice, then as a person with normal intelligence, you can only believe in ghosts and gods instead of fallacies.

Unfortunately, many people in China seem to have normal brains, but they are willing to continue to believe in fallacies.

Of course, it is absurd to believe that some swindlers "masters" who don't understand metaphysics but bluff in such mysterious ways.

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