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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more fundamentally, it is the 'falsity of all belief' to understand what role belief plays in relation to the self
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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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True. But if we recognize this, then "belief" itself becomes simply a mental plaything -- a kind of Lila, as Hinduism would have it.
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Maybe, like the X-Files, I just want to believe -- to have the great something-to-wile-away-the-hours....
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I realize that this is self-serving to the sense of desire to know, but doesn't such a sense of desire raise the possibility that there....
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