(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: Right... right. So you've gotta know the truth to know the truth.
More importantly, you gotta know how to know the truth to know the truth.
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: HOW can you differentiate between actual truth and any truth that isn't actual? Do you know some all-knowing oracle that filters the false from the true for you?
Two oracles, actually. I call them logic and evidence.
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: It's funny how deluded they can be without knowing it... I wonder, is it a kindness to expose reality to their consciousnesses... or am I cruel to betray their beliefs to them, to demolish their coping mechanism in certainty?
Betray away - If you can.
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: Oddly, your long answer was shorter than your short answer. If you don't have the capacity to defend your beliefs when they're questioned, then I've no respect for them
I've defended them many times in many threads - I just don't want to derail this one to do so.
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: Your concept of wrong, and what wrong actually is, are not one and the same.
And how can you make that statement without knowing what my concept of wrong is?
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: You're luckier than you know... able to live in a world where you think you know the rules... all the solutions to every problem... where things seem consistent, some of them unwavering.
No, I know how lucky I am - to live in a consistent universe.
(October 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm)Alice Wrote: Not all of us have the kindness that is ignorance, the blessing that is arrogance, and the comfort that is stability. I do not have the luxury of such faiths.
Faiths?
