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Why is doubt good?

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Why is doubt good?
Napoléon Offline
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm
(August 8, 2012 at 1:35 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know?

How do you not?
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm
(August 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm)Napoleon Wrote:
(August 8, 2012 at 1:35 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know?

How do you not?

How do you know that I do not?
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 3:50 pm (This post was last modified: August 8, 2012 at 3:53 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 1, 2012 at 2:42 am)Ryantology Wrote: Because No Doubt was a shit band.

Doubt is good because it is essential to separate intellectual wheat from chaff. I get really irritated by people who take doubt too far, however.

Doubtlessly.
(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote:
(August 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm)Napoleon Wrote: How do you not?

How do you know that I do not?

How do you know that he does not know that you do not, you know?
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 4:35 pm
(August 8, 2012 at 3:50 pm)whateverist Wrote: How do you know that he does not know that you do not, you know?

Clearly you are missing the point here.

The question is how do you know that he does not know that you do not know that he does not know not?

...or something like that. Fuck it, I'm having a beer, it's 5 o'clock someplace.
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 4:42 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 8:19 am)GodlessGirl Wrote: Why is doubt good? Doubt is very powerful. Take scientific advances for example, the computer you are typing on, the plane flying over your head, ect. Science works, it is effective and sure. Science manages this because of doubt. A healthy dose of doubt is what allows science to be reasonable and correct itself when it is wrong. Doubt is what religion is missing. Faith fails. If faith is touched by doubt it evaporates, at least the dangerous kind.

Doubt is good because so many people will insist on telling you things they know nothing about.
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm
(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know that I do not?

Why ask the question in the first place if you already know. That's just rude.
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 8, 2012 at 4:54 pm
(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know that I do not?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnQQF7ucdM
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 9, 2012 at 9:17 pm (This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 9:24 pm by Reforged.)
(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote:
(August 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm)Napoleon Wrote: How do you not?

How do you know that I do not?

How do you not know that I do?
Because everything I do... I do it for you.



Everyone in this thread is now 10% gayer thanks to this Bryan Adams music video.
You're welcome by the way. -.-
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 9, 2012 at 11:50 pm (This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 11:51 pm by Jeffonthenet.)
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(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know that I do not?

How do you know that he does not know that you do not, you know?

How do you know that I think that he does not know that you do not know?

My point is that doubting everything by default leads to an infinite regress and a sort of intellectual absurdity.
A point in my life when doubt was bad: when I doubted that cigarettes could get me into an almost unbreakable addiction if I just smoked them when I was stressed.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
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RE: Why is doubt good?
August 10, 2012 at 12:52 am
(August 9, 2012 at 11:50 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: My point is that doubting everything by default leads to an infinite regress and a sort of intellectual absurdity.

That's it Jeff fun isn't it.
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