allfoak
Alchemist
Beliefs get tested every day.Sounds like belief without testability.
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Beliefs get tested every day.Sounds like belief without testability.
Many don't...not in the sense I'm saying.Beliefs get tested every day.
Could you provide some examples of what those rights which require no government nor external person to create, and which any individual can exercise? I only ask because it seems pretty clear to me that any "government," possessing untrammelled governmental authority, could deny any such "right."
What I am trying to suggest is that things like bills of rights are a deliberate attempt to curtail the power of government to interfere in ordinary human life in certain ways. Thus, whether it's complete or not, or correct or not, the US Bill of Rights enshrined in amendments 3 thru 12 seem to me a really admirable attempt by governments to curtail their own power over individuals -- even when rabid majorities try to insist!!
Which is only suppression via a competing ideaProbably not as much as you'd think...even our thought processes are shaped immensely by the environment in which we were nurtured. This is as true in matters of political philosophy as it is in matters of religion. As Francis Xavier, the Jesuit founder, said..."give me the child until he is 7, and I will give you the man."
In other words, "No."Please read my posts in the thread for examples.
Suppress not deny.
Said rights are based a divine clause.
Which is only suppression via a competing idea
In other words, "No."
But we can test our own beliefs in a scientific manner.Many don't...not in the sense I'm saying.
If you make a claim about what you feel
to be true, I cannot test it.
Some beliefs are testable, eg, acceleration due to gravity = 32 ft / sec / sec.But we can test our own beliefs in a scientific manner.