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Originally posted by Colin@Dec 3 2002, 08:30 AM
That is a very interesting question in your post though. Why should anyone be more prone to believe things that have a body of evidence for them rather than not? I dont know if you want to understand where I am coming from and it doesn't matter to me but I DO want to understand where you are coming from.
I guess I would begin by asking you why you don't believe in Santa Claus or the Boogy monster. More or less - what are the reasons for your disbelief in various things - whatever they may be? Do you believe in Mohammed as a prophet? Do you believe in Christ as savior? Do you believe aliens built the pyramids? If no to any of these questions - why not?
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>>Why should anyone be more prone to believe things that have a body of evidence for them rather than not?
I guess I feel a lot more comfortable believing in things I can see or probably more so, things i *feel* ... there are things I have known to be fact all my life, related to events and paths in my life. how do I know them? i have no idea, i just *feel* that this is the way it is.
I *knew* I was going to do something artistic, on a computer ... I knew this before there was color monitors ... In my final year of high school i was introduced to this amazing program called 'photoshop'. I smiled to myself, and thought aaaaah this is what i was waiting for!! I don't really know how to explain it any better ...
>>More or less - what are the reasons for your disbelief in various things - whatever they may be?
I believe ANYTHING is possible ... how do I know what's true or not? i have no clue!! I would never say I don't *believe* in something, and I'll use religion as my example.
I don't know if there is a god, or a heaven or hell, or angels or a jesus or any of that, I think these people probably existed and fables of life in this time have become something our lives are based on. Now consider how many things in our lives are based on religion, on the 'belief' that the bible is the book of rules. When you 'swear on a bible', what are you really doing?! your putting your hand on a book and saying 'yes sir, i wont lie', and we use this as a way of getting cold blooded murderers and rapists to tell the truth?!
let me reverse the question, why do we believe in all of this? What evidence has been presented on the truth of the bible? Do people really get abducted by aliens? Is nick really a crook?