What are your answers?

[The Grand Nudger]

It's existentialism -_-

Ah but you can't know that, only make an assumption of correctness.

I'll let you be an existentialist if you stop poking holes in the concept of knowledge itself. lol.

[Violet]

It's existentialism -_-

Ah but you can't know that, only make an assumption of correctness.

-_-

Assumption of correctness = knowledge. You can know it. Easily, even. Doesn't mean your knowledge is worth two shits

= trust = confidence = faith = belief...

Worthless, and also all we have

[The Grand Nudger]

You don't have to trust or have confidence or belief or faith in any part of scientific knowledge Sae. Run it over and over and over until you get a different result.
(pro-tip: it's best not to have anything at all and let the results take you wherever they lead)

By the by, in to defend faiths other than christianity: The other faiths that would have filled the void were in no way more barbaric than christianity, though we have of course been lead to believe this by thousands of years of propaganda. Such an effective campaign that it just seems true.

[Violet]

I don't have to, but I do

It takes *little* faith to accept science into your heart... but a little faith is faith nonetheless

I was being ridiculous, rhythm... Christianity is by far the bloodiest religion other than the Aztecs... and it's a pretty close contest there. Don't know which to put in first place -_-

[The Grand Nudger]

Takes no faith whatsoever, doubt it top to bottom. Doubt it every day. That's where good science comes from. I doubt, for example, that there was only one instance of abiogenesis, only one vector for life.

[Ace Otana]

I don't have to, but I do

It takes *little* faith to accept science into your heart... but a little faith is faith nonetheless

I was being ridiculous, rhythm... Christianity is by far the bloodiest religion other than the Aztecs... and it's a pretty close contest there. Don't know which to put in first place -_-

Evidence and facts don't require faith, they require knowledge and understanding.

Also, if I remember correctly, the religious rituals performed by the Aztecs, and the Maya was to take slaves or captured warriors of other tribes and sacrifice them up on top of the temple by cutting open the chest and ripping out the heart. They then cut off the head and chuck both the head and body down the stairs. All this was done so that the sun would return the next day. They feared that light would not return if they failed to make a few sacrifices to appease the gods.
Something along those lines anyway.

[Violet]

Takes no faith whatsoever, doubt it top to bottom. Doubt it every day. That's where good science comes from. I doubt, for example, that there was only one instance of abiogenesis, only one vector for life.

One can doubt things they have faith in

Evidence and facts don't require faith, they require knowledge and understanding.

Knowledge: Faith.
Understanding: Anecdotal.

Feared it? Doubt that. Respected it? Certainly.

Good tool for terrifying the fuck out of your neighbors: rip other neighbors to shred ritualistically. Is no wonder the other tribes assisted Cortez

[The Grand Nudger]

One can doubt things they have faith in

And a toaster can fly, that doesn't make it an airplane.

[Ace Otana]

Knowledge: Faith.

Knowledge is knowledge.
Faith is faith. The two cannot be put together.
I have knowledge that the coffee cup in front of me is empty, this is based on sight, touch and the weight of it. All three of these senses tell the same thing. It's empty. Where does the faith bit come in?

Yes, good tool for keeping the fear. Though when the Spanish arrived and saw the barbaric practice, they slaughted them.

[Violet]

If a toaster can fly, it makes it half an airplane, and all the way an airtoaster

Also known as a 'heater' by some of the less civilized portions of the world

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Knowledge: Faith.

Knowledge is knowledge.
Faith is faith. The two cannot be put together.

Toads are toads.
Frogs are frogs.

Toads are also frogs.

I have knowledge that the coffee cup in front of me is empty, this is based on sight, touch and the weight of it. All three of these senses tell the same thing. It's empty. Where does the faith bit come in?

In you accepting this as true. The data you perceive is simply data... it is neither true nor false. You might provide it meaning, or you might not... it's data: it cares not.

Unless, it does. And then it usually has a knife on hand and is angry.

Yes, good tool for keeping the fear. Though when the Spanish arrived and saw the barbaric practice, they slaughted them.

You mean: their smallpox slaughtered them.