New post on how I stopped being a fundie homeschooler evangelist
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One bone to pick: for Deists/Pandeists, belief systems very well may be “the things we’ve logically concluded about the world.”
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?? All belief systems serve functions - even deism/pandeism. There is no such thing as pure logical conclusion about something like that.
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....but surely one can lay out all theological possibilities, and make logically valid determinations about their relative probability, with
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probability is deeply subjective, as it is a calculation dependent on perspective, 'logically valid probability prediction is nonsensical
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May I ask, how would you describe yourself now in terms of religion and/or spirituality?
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Loosely into zen, or basically whatever the things zen says sounds real good to me
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I tend to teeter very quickly from that into the possibility that nothing is true at all (simulation theory; brain in a jar; etc)....
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if you have an 'idea' to replace it - a simulation, a jar, etc., then you are not escaping from belief, you are operating within it
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.... and I cannot even find that Descartes's rescues any certainty a reality from that. And but it sure seems like *something* is real.
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And I suppose at some level the impossibility of discovering "truth" is maddening in, so I want there to at least be a probability of one.