(January 21, 2014 at 12:43 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Oh I am / was! I just found the cognitive dissonance of trying NOT to believe somewhat harder than the cognitive dissonance of believing. I'm certain that if I kept challenging myself and reminding myself that all the things I think of as real are probably products of my own psyche I could push past that, but why? As people told me there is no payoff.HAHA, I remember telling you that!
The only payoff is knowing you're being honest with yourself and not believing in fairytales...
(January 21, 2014 at 12:43 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: A tautology is a piece of self supporting logic. For eg, lets say I say this cup of tea is the perfect temperature. Why is that? Because its neither too hot nor too cold. How do we know its not too hot? because its the perfect temperature. Its a non falsifiable statement.
That argument for God being good is the same. What is the nature of god? He is good. How do we KNOW he is good? Because he is God and good is good by definition. How do we know that this behavior is good? Because its god doing it. And why? Because it is god doing it.
01:18:55 [Ilia-probe] The creator is that which created V'Ger.
01:18:58[Kirk] Who is V'Ger?
01:19:00[Ilia-probe] V'Ger is that which seeks the creator.
