(April 20, 2015 at 3:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: Deidre: Yes I'm a lifer, my parents are shits but at least they didn't indoctrinate me so I'm very lucky on that accountI often wonder what would have happened had I been indoctrinated. I feel, perhaps naively, that I would have broken out of it eventually, but I'm sure it would have been a hard and painful battle if I would have won it at all. I'm obscenely logical, so I think it would have taken a very serious level of indoctrination to hold me down for life. But I really can't know that for sure.
Historically, there have been logicians who have been Christians. So it really is impossible for us to know what would have happened, had you been raised completely differently from how you were in fact raised.
In my case, it took a lot of pain and effort, as I was very well indoctrinated. Other than that, I have no complaints about how my mother raised me, as she was reasonable (other than being a Christian), honest, and she made me know I was always loved. It was an honest mistake on her part, to raise me to believe, and so I am not angry with her about it. Of course, I wish I had not been raised to believe such drivel, but she honestly believed it, having been indoctrinated when she was a child.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
