(July 6, 2010 at 9:48 am)Godhead Wrote: Neither. I believe that what my intuition tells me is different to what the next person's intuition tells them, not better.
Yes, what your intuition tells you differs from the intuitive conclusions of others, that is obvious...
And it also doesn't have a damn thing to do with the fact that you believe that the proposition "God=universe=us" is true!
If you believe that:
Emotions and intuition are sufficient in determining the truth of a proposition
And:
You believe that "god=universe=us" because of your emotions and intuitions
But:
You reject contradictory conclusions reached by others using the exact same criteria.
Then you either:
1. Believe that your emotional/intuitive conclusions are better than those of any person who reaches any contradictory conclusion and thus are acceptable to hold a positive belief in.
Or
2. Believe in your conclusions even though they are no better supported than any other contradictory conclusion reached using emotions/intuition because you don't actually give a shit about the truth.
It's either one or the other, unless you can think of a 3rd option that is consistent with both believing that emotions/intuition is sufficient for determining the truth of a proposition and rejecting the conclusions of everyone else who arrives at contradictory conclusions via this criteria.
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