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| Subject: | | Re: my thoughts |
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luna1580
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Wed, Sep 9 2009, 3:46am
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remember, reality has a widely known pro-science bias! ;)
and more seriously (as that was a "serious joke"), i fully agree that there is nothing "hostile" or "dogmatic" about asking anyone supporting any idea to just lay out their belief's support rationally on the debating table. if they can't do that very thing -and then get defensive- well....all i can say is that they may doubt their own ideas, and the action of doubting itself may scare them.....
don't forget, doubt is equally helpful in both faith and science. in faith is makes you question your original beliefs (and any that may surface later), and if you come back to them in the face of doubt it makes them truly real to you. in science if your doubts lead to an invalidation of your hypothesis then they give you more informed grounds to form a new and better hypothesis to go out and test. either way, doubt helps us find truth.
the only people i really fear for are those who have been indoctrinated into thinking that the very act of having a question, of having a doubt, is itself sinful. these people will struggle always and blame themselves, because whatever answer finally works for each of us (in matters of faith), or works for the physical world (in matters of science), if you suppress even the asking of any questions it will weigh upon your soul. whatever we each end up believing, these beliefs are all the much more glorious if we struggled and worked within our minds and hearts to find them -ultimately- for ourselves.
so, any persons out there caught in any belief structure that shames-against or scares-against or outright-denies-against them even asking their own questions i believe is doing them an immeasurable disservice. this is not any statement against faith, simply a strong statement against binding the curious mind and thus preventing each person from asking their own questions, as they need to in time..... |
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