(August 19, 2013 at 3:14 pm)ronedee Wrote: In your lust to nail me down intellectually, you've missed the whole point I've ultimately tried to (possibly couldn't) make: We are both trying to prove something, (with emotion i might add) that we personally can't do!
We have observations, writings and experiments by "others". The personal experiences we have are limited. We are a nation of observers.
If you aim to be consistent in what you just said, and I'll give you the benefit of that doubt even though nothing else I've seen you write gives me any cause so to do:
Good luck next time you have to vist a dentist or a doctor. You haven't personally witnessed all the trials and whatnot for those drugs and other medical treatments they use routinely.
Good luck next time you have to get your car or your computer fixed. You haven't personally witnessed all the science behind the development of the technology those engineers will be using.
Good luck going out to eat at a restaurant of your choice. You're just taking it on blind faith that the meals they are selling you are actually made of food that isn't going to kill you, or that the relevant food safety inspectors have done their job, since you haven't personally witnessed either. If your chosen restaurant is McDonald's, of course, all bets are off.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
