I agree with John.
What could it mean to choose a belief?
I think we can only to choose to fake a belief, for not hurting a
parent or to survive in some tyrannic system.
But I will try, in case you are right, I will try to believe it is not
raining today :)
Bruno
Le 19-janv.-06, à 04:14, John M a écrit :
> See below:
>
>> Religion means believing something in the absence
> of sufficient
>> evidence.
>>
>> Stathis Papaioannou
> ----------------------
> and:
>> My belief is that in matters of faith, you can
>> choose to believe or not
>> believe based on your personal preferences.
> ===================================================
> Stathis wrote it right, except for the unidentifiable
> "sufficient evidence". A faithful person 'believes'
> that the 'evidence' he so calls is 'sufficient'. It is
> a 1st person decision. Undebatable.
> Popper did not find sufficient (scientific) evidence,
> only falsification.
> And then come emotions into play...
>
> John Mikes
>
> http://pages.prodigy.net/jamikes/SciRelMay00.html
>
>
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Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 10:34:08 PST