RE: how do you forgive yourself?
July 26, 2012 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2012 at 6:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 21, 2012 at 9:18 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: Faithnomore, I appreciate the reasoned response. However, I would say that absolute certainty about something is not necessary to justify belief in that something. I think you also run into the danger of presupposing your conclusion as from the fact that our brains can play tricks upon us, it doesn't follow that all experience of God is a trick. It seems to me that this argument may also be used for one to be skeptical about any belief you hold as it can always be said that this belief may be false because our brains play tricks upon us.bolding mine
Ding ding ding ding! Whadda we have for him Johhny? One could, btw Jeff, plan to act as though their memories were trustworthy sometime in the future, make that plan known publicly, and then court multiple sources of verification for both their acts and their reasons for undertaking them after the fact (this would also help to determine whether or not there was an "after the fact" to begin with). One need not presuppose, you could actually propose the polar opposite, that our memories are not trustworthy (and we have done precisely this sort of thing in trying to determine how accurate our memories can be said to be).
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