Feeling Reality (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, February 17, 2011, 16:43 (4837 days ago) @ David Turell


> > In any investigation, we start in a state of complete ignorance (no explanation.) This is what I mean by "default position." If the evidence posited by both sides is weak or inconclusive for some reason; we maintain the default position. To choose at this point is a form of mental attachment that is going to really be driven more by emotion than by reason.
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> Excellent explanation, but I am at a point of Adlerian 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. I think the evidence points to a UI.-Your Adlerian point has these practical problems:-1. You're deciding in the beginning of the investigation. (On the cosmic scale.)
2. You assert (perhaps unwittingly) that you can tell the difference between intelligent and unintelligent. (I'll have more on that in a later post.) 
3. That there is a binary relationship between design and chance. (Extreme deism eliminates that.)
4. That chickens come before eggs.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"