....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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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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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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....is some kind of *something* which has (or even is defined by) such a want to know? In, even, the Eriugenian becoming-to-know sense?
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