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01-31-2011, 10:36 AM | #731 (permalink) | |
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This video sums it up excellently. "There is more than one way to lack belief in deities." Last edited by RVCA; 01-31-2011 at 11:04 AM. |
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01-31-2011, 11:05 AM | #732 (permalink) | ||
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Of course, one may use the term 'agnosticism' in a wider perspective than just theism, but in such case we're not discussing god's being or not being exclusively and the concept of atheism is no longer useful. That is to say there may as well be a lot of phenomena we cannot explain and know for sure are the way we think they are, and as far as I'm concerned there are. Enter epistemology. Quote:
That's what "Close to the edge" is about, by the way. I know. I wrote a whole B-level essay about it.
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01-31-2011, 12:26 PM | #733 (permalink) | ||
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I think that the popular use of the word "faith" has equated it with belief. Belief is not faith. Belief is a proposition one holds to be true, "I am wearing a shirt". If you justify this belief with evidence then you get knowledge, "My eyes and nerve endings and the opinions of others leads me to believe that I am wearing a shirt". You can not prove that some mystical "god" or The Matrix is making you think that you are wearing a shirt when you are not, but without any evidence, this is merely pointless what-ifing. Faith does not require, nor does it ask for evidence for it to be percieved as knowledge by those who practice faith. It is true that you can not prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that the facts that we percieve with our senses are true, we have reason to believe that they are, while faith has no such reason.
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01-31-2011, 06:11 PM | #736 (permalink) | |
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01-31-2011, 06:27 PM | #737 (permalink) | |
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01-31-2011, 11:26 PM | #738 (permalink) | ||
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Strange to me you would say love, justice and mercy do not exist, because they are things that are attributed to God, God is Just and Merciful, and God is Love. But then you do not believe in God so to you all four are dreamt up God, Love, Mercy and Justice? |
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02-01-2011, 03:52 AM | #739 (permalink) | ||
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Arguing whether gravity is love or not is, to me, just stupid. I could say okay, if gravity is love, then people made up of more matter should love eachother more or love should be affected by f.ex speed and the proximity to mass. But in the end, it's a romantic, spiritual idea and not a scientific one. I understand the idea, love is attraction is gravity, but I don't like to think of love as being defined as a law of gravity. That's gravity's job. Love to me is not a force of nature, but something who's existence is entirely dependent on biological processes in our bodies. However, arguing that will degenerate into a discussion of semantics which is a real bore. edit : Quote:
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