RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 8, 2018 at 5:51 pm
(May 8, 2018 at 5:41 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(May 8, 2018 at 5:25 pm)Quick Wrote: I think you need to restate what my beliefs are if you are going to say I am not using the tools that we have to reassess what my beliefs are. I said at some point on this forum that our tools are only as good as the weakest link in our biases which are a byproduct of our flawed perception. I didn't use those exact words, but that's basically what I said. And you could argue "but we know so much about reality now" and to that I would say "how do you know that?"
We know we know a lot about reality, because what we know WORKS.
I don't think this is adequate evidence that we know a lot about reality. Whether things work or not is relative.
(May 8, 2018 at 5:41 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(May 8, 2018 at 5:25 pm)Quick Wrote: There is no way to know how much of reality we have actually figured out. So then that leaves us at the point where I can only believe what I know to be true for myself.
There is no such thing as 'your own truth'. There is only truth. Either the thing that you are applying the god label to, manifests in reality, or it doesn't. Your personal opinion about it means nothing.
Would you rather get on a plane that the designer tells you was designed and built using 'his own truth', or a plane that was designed and built using methods that have been shown to work, no matter what individuals think about their 'own truth'.
Like, you consider yourself a skeptic, right? I am a skeptic as well. My scepticism is in trusting others to have my own self interest in mind, which I cannot be sure of.
I am not claiming some bullshit about "find your own truth inside yourself" I am simply making a point that given I only have a sample size of 1 (me) that I can 100% trust, I have to rely on myself to know what it is that I think is true. If it so happens that I am wrong, then I am wrong and I can try and adapt from there. But as it stands I have my reasons for believing what I do. You disagree with those reasons, which is perfectly acceptable. We each have our own beliefs. Let's not call it more than it actually is.
But your individuality and your present need will be swept away by change,
and what you now ardently desire will one day become the object of abhorrence.
~ Schiller - 'Psychological Types'