Capiche?
Posted on 06/04/2005 3:57:12 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
My point exactly! Imagine the faith it takes to disregard that level of evidence!
By my definition, yes.
Some people might not share your particular top ten ranking of the 'big-questions'.
OK, I'll be more specific. Everybody has a belief system that addresses why what happens during life, what happens after death and how they should behave.
I don't believe you.
I don't believe you.
So, what is a belief system? If someone asks me how hydrogen is converted into energy in a fuel cell, and I say "I don't know, but I haven't seen any evidence that a magic pixie comes in to make the change", does that mean I have a belief system?
If you say "I don't know" and leave it at that it would mean the answer isn't important to you -- which would reflect a belief system.
Funny, when you consider that this is a mirror-image of the truth.
So, anything we don't know isn't important? Gee, that's a new one. I guess that takes all the interest out of what is going to happen in the stock market next week. And, it would also reflect the belief system that investors have about how their finances will turn out.
Sorry, but your reply doesn't make one bit of sense
Anything you choose not to consider isn't important to you. What one belives is important or unimportant is part of one's belief system.
You are not making sense.
Not knowing something is not the same as not being important. That is why I used the analogy of the stock market. Do you suppose there are advisers who will tell us which stocks will prosper, and which ones will not? If an investor chooses not to accept the evidence-absent assertions of a stock analyst, would you consider that the investor thinks the future market postion is not important?
How about leprechauns? You can't possibly have any knowledge of whether or not they exist. Therefore, that must be your religion. I've heard that those creatures wear different colored hats. Are you of the non-leprechaunist green hat faith, or the non-leprechaunist taupe hat faith?
It is not "not knowning something." It is not WANTING to know someting.
And it's not about something "not being important." It's about what you BELIEVE is important.
What you believe is your belief system.
There you go again with the 'everybody'.
'Why' what happens during life is a meaningless question. What happens after death is decomposition, unless you're Ted Williams. How you should behave is governed by your ethical code, not your belief system.
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle? Down in the Bermuda Traingle Elvis needs boats. Elvis needs boats. Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis needs boats. Aahh! The Sailing Elvis! Captain Elvis! Commodore Elvis it is.
I believe in Mojo Nixon.
You are not making sense.
Whether a person knows something or not has no relation to that person's desire to know something. If you make a wild unevidenced irrational assertion, and I don't believe it, it doesn't mean the topic is not important to me.
So, for the record, I don't believe you. You may NOT assume that anything you are talking about is unimportant to me. I simply don't believe you.
Capiche?
You are not making sense.
Whether a person knows something or not has no relation to that person's desire to know something. If you make a wild unevidenced irrational assertion, and I don't believe it, it doesn't mean the topic is not important to me.
So, for the record, I don't believe you. You may NOT assume that anything you are talking about is unimportant to me. I simply don't believe you.
Capiche?
That's how your belief system deals with the question.
What happens after death is decomposition, unless you're Ted Williams.
That's the belief system of a materialist -- one who claims that the atoms in your body -- and only the atoms -- are you, no soul, nothing eternal.
How you should behave is governed by your ethical code, not your belief system.
And the source of your ethical code is what?
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