(March 22, 2013 at 1:28 pm)jstrodel Wrote: There is not one true belief that I am aware of that I have rejected without deeply considering its merits and relating it as best as I can to everything else I know in the last 6 or 7 years. This is not necessarily the best way to approach everything, to believe that you know better than everyone else, but this is the way that I have lived for years and years.
Your problem lies in that you claim to know that others do not hold beliefs to the same rigorous standards that you believe you do.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell