(May 9, 2015 at 11:03 am)Riketto Wrote: What about you Ton.So... your beliefs might be true someday? Is that what you're clinging to?
Have you got any physical evidence that back up your believes?
Put it in this way.
In this physical world there is NOTHING fixed.
Everything move and change with no stop in sight so how can you ever believe that anything in this universe is absolute true?
What was true in the past has been cast in the rubbish bin of history and what is true today will also end up in the rubbish bin very soon
so if you really believe that you stand on top of solid foundations you will be quite disappointed soon.
I on the other hand aim on something that is fixed and therefore it is unlikely that will cause bad surprised in the future but you never know Ton
the future will tell.
My guess is that aside from your religious or spiritual beliefs, all of your other beliefs are based on the same evidence as mine. Which is why we are able to function every day instead of sitting in a corner unable to move or get anything done. We eat, sleep, work, and do many things every day in the physical world. I do zero things in the "spiritual" world. You might pretend that you do some things in the spiritual world. But you go completely on blind faith, hoping that someday you might find out whether or not you were on to something. And your best defense for that illogical approach is that I can't detect it any more than you can, so I can't be sure it's not there.
And it's pretty much the same for everyone else. Our experiences in the physical world are the same, but our experiences in the "spiritual" world are vastly different and just as impossible to prove. Wonder why that is?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould