| Re: With all the erudition of a drunken 15 year old......
Basically, you are arguing the metaphyical perspective. While, metaphysics is all well and good for a bit of interesting conversation in the pub above and beyond that it is completely useless. Nothing practical can ever come from metaphysics and the fundamental reason for this is impossible to empirically test them, therefore, when you have two contradictory metaphysical positions it is impossible to reconcile them or to fin out which one is more valid (or invalid, more to the point).
For example, try this thought experiment, say you get some new age healer whose technique and beliefs as to why his techniques work is utterly incompatible with the existence of chakras. Yet he has thousands of happy customers who are willing to provide testimonials as to the efficacy of his treatment. However, he also claims that the powers he is using are also unmeasurable. How do you determine which is the valid treatment, given that the nature of his claims means that both cannot be true? Well, you'd want to start with a clinical trial. Where healing techniques employing ideas such as 'chakras' have been put through rigorous clinical trials they have consistently failed to be any more effective than the placebo effect. Presented with this result, the 'healers' kindly inform the researchers that when these things are rigorously tested it implies that we have no faith which in turn creates 'bad vibes' which negatively affect the healer's powers to heal. Well, wait a minute, but what sort of a chance does that give us? Now, if the second guy with the other technique also fails in his clinical trials and comes up with exactly the same ad-hoc justification we are absolutley no further forward. We are left with a bunch of patient testimonials (useful only as a starting point for research, not as it's culmination and certainly not as evidence) from two branches of metaphysical healing which completely contradict one another. You can see how you very quickly end up in a whole big stinking pile of 'whats the point?'. | 
