Realized not just believed? I prefer "internalized".
Philosophy and religion? What can be more pure truth, a personal truth, than realizing that which you do not know? That you might suspect, or believe is arguable. You are disingenuous to tell someone you KNOW of an event not part of your direct experience? Something you read in a b…
Realized not just believed? I prefer "internalized".
Philosophy and religion? What can be more pure truth, a personal truth, than realizing that which you do not know? That you might suspect, or believe is arguable. You are disingenuous to tell someone you KNOW of an event not part of your direct experience? Something you read in a book, or something drilled into you at catechism?
I think, perhaps, that which I believe to some extent is voluminous. That which I KNOW is very little by comparison.
Wm. Blake, I would invite to kiss my big black ass. Blake was a Dissenter, and I would prefer quotes of a more secular viewpoint. They were still burning witches when Blake was in the church.
You KNOW that cats are born afraid of dogs? How do you KNOW that? Are they really born afraid of dogs? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe it is a learned trait. Maybe they compete for the same resources. Maybe Sheer mass has something to do with it. Maybe it is a game.
Yes, much of what we know is relative, partial, through a glass darkly. But before you were claiming it all was. You weren't just agnostic about ultimate reality, you were an atheist about our common everyday reality. In which case, it would be pointless for anyone to ever say anything to anyone since we would have no common ground.
We pulled you in from the brink and now you have backtracked back to some degree of sanity. Thus the utility of the philosophical method is revealed.
Lugh,
Realized not just believed? I prefer "internalized".
Philosophy and religion? What can be more pure truth, a personal truth, than realizing that which you do not know? That you might suspect, or believe is arguable. You are disingenuous to tell someone you KNOW of an event not part of your direct experience? Something you read in a book, or something drilled into you at catechism?
I think, perhaps, that which I believe to some extent is voluminous. That which I KNOW is very little by comparison.
Wm. Blake, I would invite to kiss my big black ass. Blake was a Dissenter, and I would prefer quotes of a more secular viewpoint. They were still burning witches when Blake was in the church.
You KNOW that cats are born afraid of dogs? How do you KNOW that? Are they really born afraid of dogs? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe it is a learned trait. Maybe they compete for the same resources. Maybe Sheer mass has something to do with it. Maybe it is a game.
Yes, much of what we know is relative, partial, through a glass darkly. But before you were claiming it all was. You weren't just agnostic about ultimate reality, you were an atheist about our common everyday reality. In which case, it would be pointless for anyone to ever say anything to anyone since we would have no common ground.
We pulled you in from the brink and now you have backtracked back to some degree of sanity. Thus the utility of the philosophical method is revealed.
Another successful cure, partial but substantial.
Cured at last! Cured at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm cured at last!