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Qilin · 2012-10-08, 06:27

What I don't get here is the insistence that something either is or isn't. I don't see anything wrong with making decisions with a purely probabilistic perspective in mind. There's really no reason extend as far as "belief" or "non-belief" when making a claim when you can just as easily label something as "probable" or "improbable". After all, there really is no such thing as anything "solid" to hold on to, be it physical sensations or religious dogma. It's not like acknowledging such things will change reality in any way.

As an agnostic atheist myself, I like to maintain a principle of absolute relativity in many things. As such, from my perspective, both empirical logic and blind faith are tools that people choose from in making sense of reality. One is not better than the other. Its just that a lot of us here go for the former rather than the latter.

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Qilin Romanticist Join Date: Aug 2009 Age: 33	What I don't get here is the insistence that something either is or isn't. I don't see anything wrong with making decisions with a purely probabilistic perspective in mind. There's really no reason extend as far as "belief" or "non-belief" when making a claim when you can just as easily label something as "probable" or "improbable". After all, there really is no such thing as anything "solid" to hold on to, be it physical sensations or religious dogma. It's not like acknowledging such things will change reality in any way. As an agnostic atheist myself, I like to maintain a principle of absolute relativity in many things. As such, from my perspective, both empirical logic and blind faith are tools that people choose from in making sense of reality. One is not better than the other. Its just that a lot of us here go for the former rather than the latter. __________________ "There’s an up higher than up, but at the very top, down is all there is."