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Originally Posted by Mr Logic
As I have previously emphasised, all belief systems rely on the absence of incontestable proof.
Were truth to be incontestably established, any passionate rhetoric and/or dialectic would ipso facto render itself superfluous.
As truth cannot be ascertained within belief systems, all belief systems render themselves self perpetuating due to both their protagonist's and antagonist's continual and often passionate reaffirmation of the unknowable.
However, sentient life and/or existence would not be possible were it not for belief systems in themselves, as proposed by Immanuel Kant in his 'Critique of Pure Reason' wherein it is mooted that the a priori continuum of a particle from second to second is essential for survival of cognizance, often described by the ludicrously simplistic 'tree in a forest' analogy.
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Wow you must have had to do a lot of acid to come up with that.
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“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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08-19-2011, 12:53 AM
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