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Evidence is goodbfo me, beats guesswork every time
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Faith in the teaching of the Sufi mystic is what I see as what I need to understand existence
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Evidence and reasoning are the only ways to genuinely explain a mystery. Everything else is blind guesswork. If you don't have enough evidence to explain something, then you can't know the answer and it's rational to just admit that.
"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell."
-- Richard Feynman
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Care to share these mysterious approaches?
Not really. Lol.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Rick feels no fear not knowing as I feel no fear to know. That fear swings both ways.
The Crimson Universe
Active Member
Things that are shrouded in mystery delights me. I love reading about them with awe and wonder.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
If you have no evidence or reasoning, then you don't know. You may believe something but that isn't the same as knowing. Guesswork (belief without evidence) is not knowledge.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Care to share things that are shrouded?Things that are shrouded in mystery delights me. I love reading about them with awe and wonder.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Personally I know.
To each their own
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
You can believe what you want but if you think you know something without any proper justification (evidence and/or reasoning) then you're living in a fantasy world. Sorry.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
My point exactly. Knowing is where the fear comes in because you’re not supposed to know you’re supposed to believe
Altfish
Veteran Member
Not sure what you mean by "a more mysterious approach" - could you elaborate?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
No fantasy’s here.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
You're not making the slightest bit of sense. "Supposed to" according to whom? What fear is there in knowing something?
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
You are fantasising if you convince yourself that you know something without evidence or reasoning. (If you think you know how to write the plural of 'fantasy', you are also living in a fantasy world.)
The Crimson Universe
Active Member
The Bigfoot,
The Lochness Monster,
The Mothman,
The Bermuda Triangle,
The Hollow Earth,
The Reptilians,
The Greys,
The Nordic human looking aliens.
Is that enough?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Origin of life say