Yes that is my own belief "faith" or however you would like to define it. And I could be wrong as well. Sure.
I think what is more important is tolerance. Tolerance for people's religious/spiritual beliefs. Which is severely lacking with today's rationalists/skeptics who think themselves enlightened just like the fanatical fundamentalists of old.
Tolerance is joystick in the hands of the Capitalists for their exploitation of all others. Skeptics/Rationalists are armchair ego massagers not worthy of one's time of day. Time is too short for that.
One does have to wake up each morning and conduct oneself with some set of beliefs. And willing to make decisions based on those beliefs. On the other hand, a lack of tolerance is drinking the poison of one's own unconscious projections without sufficient self realization.
See, you didn’t answer my question(s). You don’t answer a question with a question. That’s just basic avoidance. I determine when I am being lied to or not through my experience and the data I have acquired while mucking about on this little blue-green marble.
You are heading into an area where truth and lies don’t exist with the questions you posed and how you framed them. Not only that, but you are suggesting that truth is subjective. Try that reasoning with your bank or on a mathematical test.
As for tolerance, there is a saturation point as with anything else.
There are still many open questions regarding reality and the nature of what we are and why even reality exists. Open ontological and metaphysical questions. To assume you have it all figured out and are intolerant of other's beliefs, when the questions are still open questions - is the height of arrogance and ignorance. Religious (and I include Atheism in that category) intolerance is despicable and often behind the most heinous acts against humanity.
Lol what part of I don’t know/we don’t know tripped you up when I first stated it. That’s why I said I enjoy the mystery. The ones who say they have the correct view through religion or atheism ( I’d call that a religion too) are the arrogant ones who think they have it all figured out. You can’t get much more open minded than stating I don’t know.
Patterns and systems do exist and they are just as objective as 1+1=2.
Yes - the know-it-alls. And then to assume science has figured it all out. Science doesn't even know how we can perceive or experience the color of red yet. On the other hand, believing (without critical thinking) in religious scripts written 2,000 years ago appears just as foolhardy to me.
Yes that is my own belief "faith" or however you would like to define it. And I could be wrong as well. Sure.
I think what is more important is tolerance. Tolerance for people's religious/spiritual beliefs. Which is severely lacking with today's rationalists/skeptics who think themselves enlightened just like the fanatical fundamentalists of old.
Tolerance is joystick in the hands of the Capitalists for their exploitation of all others. Skeptics/Rationalists are armchair ego massagers not worthy of one's time of day. Time is too short for that.
One does have to wake up each morning and conduct oneself with some set of beliefs. And willing to make decisions based on those beliefs. On the other hand, a lack of tolerance is drinking the poison of one's own unconscious projections without sufficient self realization.
So, as I’ve tried to illustrate that the pattern is consistent with a lie how or why should I tolerate being lied to? Do you enjoy being lied to?
Who determines who or what is being lied to? Certainly Atheists/Materialists don't have a corner on "the truth". Nor do Christians or Hindus.
On some subjects, tolerance is rational and acceptable; intolerance is cruel and controlling.
See, you didn’t answer my question(s). You don’t answer a question with a question. That’s just basic avoidance. I determine when I am being lied to or not through my experience and the data I have acquired while mucking about on this little blue-green marble.
You are heading into an area where truth and lies don’t exist with the questions you posed and how you framed them. Not only that, but you are suggesting that truth is subjective. Try that reasoning with your bank or on a mathematical test.
As for tolerance, there is a saturation point as with anything else.
There are still many open questions regarding reality and the nature of what we are and why even reality exists. Open ontological and metaphysical questions. To assume you have it all figured out and are intolerant of other's beliefs, when the questions are still open questions - is the height of arrogance and ignorance. Religious (and I include Atheism in that category) intolerance is despicable and often behind the most heinous acts against humanity.
Lol what part of I don’t know/we don’t know tripped you up when I first stated it. That’s why I said I enjoy the mystery. The ones who say they have the correct view through religion or atheism ( I’d call that a religion too) are the arrogant ones who think they have it all figured out. You can’t get much more open minded than stating I don’t know.
Patterns and systems do exist and they are just as objective as 1+1=2.
Yes - the know-it-alls. And then to assume science has figured it all out. Science doesn't even know how we can perceive or experience the color of red yet. On the other hand, believing (without critical thinking) in religious scripts written 2,000 years ago appears just as foolhardy to me.