(March 3, 2014 at 9:21 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 3, 2014 at 9:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: That's not something I contemplate often. What of it?
I think you should contemplate it and I think until you can come to the place where you can say: "Yes, I choose to believe this..." or "No, I choose not to believe that..." then you cannot justifiably denigrate the beliefs of others.
After all, maybe we don't choose what we believe. Maybe our beliefs are by-products of socio-biological evolutionary processes.
What we believe is the product of the sum total of our experience and being. We can't believe anything we want, willy-nilly. We believe in what we are convinced is true. The most we can do is try to convince ourselves that something else is true. With enough effort, one can come to believe pretty much anything.
Like your new avatar, btw.
