Identity (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, September 05, 2009, 18:10 (5557 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George,-> dhw: "Not believing is one side of agnosticism. The other side is not disbelieving." Exactly, but you need to proportion your degree of belief to the degree of evidence! Just because two different views of a subject can be presented does not mean that they are equally valid, 50:50.-Hence why I tend to explanations of scientific nature. While it is true that the line between "natural" and "supernatural" is a seductively shifting snake, a decision must be made at some point: "If you were to side with something today, which would it be?" We have to fall back on what we *know*, and what we *can* know, or we're simply engaging in speculation and not an act of explanation.

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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.\"