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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
Don't know if that answered your post or not. Please let me know if I didn't.
Cheers
Aj
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Yes and No ! LOL.
I appreciate, greatly, the terms and examples you used in your reply. Easy to read, easy to understand. I wanted to quote and respond to your whole reply but fear that I would end with a multi page jumble of idiotic questions and statements! I'm interested, but not well versed.
When responding in my first post, I haphazardly introduced why I hang onto beliefs for which there is no evidence. And that basically is : what is an unsupported (evidenciary) belief today, may become a supported rule tomorrow and ultimately a basis for learning and believing yet additional unsupported ideas in the future.
I know, a big grey zone. It still doesn't answer why I believe in the hand of something greater than I.
I agree with you in that questioning absolutes is good..even though they appear irrefutable. Newtonian Physics = absolutes. I believe in them, the evidence shows why the apple falls (or in your example, doesn't) or why the car skids. But do we stop there? What if science believes there is more, yet there is no proof?
So this is another example of hanging on to 'beliefs for which there is no evidence':
Quantum Physics-Dimension. It started with three, now arguably four. Even more astounding mathematics project six postulate it could be infinite?!
While there is no hard evidence, I believe !
I am the most evidenciary based suspicious, "prove-it" person (maybe due to my job?) but on some things I just have to believe there
might be more, even without the hard evidence to support its presence.
Dimension? Ghosts? God? Nirvana?
Conversely, I think the danger in believing without evidence comes when we refine a belief into a standard. Think of all the things we didn't believe in the past, and we are paying the price now... That standard must be held as non harming; non-intrusive, and non-judgmental. Because when we enact beliefs into standards upon another human being, it is the absolute that becomes restrictive, harmful, damaging, catastrophic.