tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860928176864796725.post3125196038621207697..comments2023-10-08T07:26:49.785-07:00Comments on Peter and Paul: Submissionstan@stanlaw.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240385919703527628noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860928176864796725.post-2342094702036742382015-03-27T17:25:08.212-07:002015-03-27T17:25:08.212-07:00Thanks for your input. You're right. Perhaps i...Thanks for your input. You're right. Perhaps it is a question of semantics. My view of Dawkins is covered in my book: DELUSIONS—Pragmatic Realism: <br />http://tinyurl.com/pnfzb7j<br />The rest is alluded to in Quantum Mechanics:<br />http://humansarefree.com/2015/01/proof-that-human-body-is-projection-of.htmlstan@stanlaw.cahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13240385919703527628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860928176864796725.post-72444236812760143512015-03-27T12:33:57.171-07:002015-03-27T12:33:57.171-07:00Perhaps it's a question of semantics. "Fa...Perhaps it's a question of semantics. "Faith" is a voluntary suspension of reason and questioning. Religions require it to keep control over the minds of their subjects. "Belief" is a tentative and conditional assumption of truth, subject to further verification (i.e., finding evidence and corroboration). <br /><br />The mind has a built-in curiosity, a drive towards seeking understanding and an endless thirst for more knowledge. New discoveries go into a box we can call "speculation" or "unresolved data" or even "puzzles" to be solved. The mind is building a replica of the outer world and seeks to integrate new input accurately within the previously obtained information. <br /><br />This curiosity will not shut down in the absence of faith. It has no need for faith, because what we have is the optimistic expectation that more complete understanding will arrive with further evidence. Some may call that "faith" for lack of a deeper understanding. <br /><br />What Paul thought of as unseen has become more and more visible with better tools. There is no conflict between Dawkins and Paul on this meta-level.<br /><br />Dawkins proposed the word "meme" for the mind's software. All knowledge can be formulated as a composite of memes. While there is no guarantee that all memes are accurate and truthful, we can have some oversight of them through reason, the mind's tool for non-contradictory integration. <br /><br />Faith is the erroneous meme that seeks to invalidate reason to preserve itself and all the erroneous ideas it is shepherding. Faith leads to horrid actions that even contradict the good lessons religion was originally intended to teach but has forgotten once it is possessed by the evil memes that a suspension of reason has allowed to fester in human consciousness and take refuge in the unconscious as well. <br /><br />Faith is the mindkiller. Find a different word for the mind's insatiable eagerness for new experiences.<br />Kate Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01681207932979859688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860928176864796725.post-6440453773924692292015-03-26T07:11:05.482-07:002015-03-26T07:11:05.482-07:00Thank you, Philippa. We try.
Thank you, Philippa. We try. <br />stan@stanlaw.cahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13240385919703527628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860928176864796725.post-83763926117514510342015-03-26T01:45:26.127-07:002015-03-26T01:45:26.127-07:00Lucid clarity as ever!Lucid clarity as ever!Philippa Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237512770210550162noreply@blogger.com