(July 27, 2012 at 2:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I could never lay claim to being completely rational Genk. -I have flirted with just about every form of magic you might care to invoke, curiosity killed the cat and all.- If someone claims they can summon a demon..I can't help myself, I draw the circle and start chanting. Also, it isn't so much a refusal as an inability to feel confident enough to call something "true" the way I so often see it employed. As I said, what works in my life, what works in my thoughts, may not be accurate, I'm well aware of this. That's not entirely too difficult to understand is it?
I don't think anyone can claim to be completely rational. But I consider it a worthy goal to aspire to and from what I can gather from your posts, so do you. I just don't think that your discrepancy between beliefs and actions works towards that.
And frankly speaking, I don't understand your inability to feel confidence in those principles. As far as I can tell, you act according to them and you judge things according to them. It is only when they are spelled out that you seem to have a problem committing to them. Is it the constant butchering of the concept of "truth" - that any foundational truths are always taken on faith and inevitably lead to dogmatic positions - as done by the religious right - that has made you wary of such confidence?