BELIEF is not complicated. (Introduction)

by Cary Cook , Friday, May 30, 2008, 00:19 (5800 days ago) @ dhw

George & DHW - My thanks for the emotional support, but that's not why I'm here. I'm here to either clarify my thinking or help you clarify yours ... assuming that you want clarification. Addressing each of your points would only complicate the issue further. Therefore I'm sending you both the same post, and addressing only 2 issues. Do you disagree with either of the following? - 1. Assuming there is no afterlife, then the value of this life is purely a matter of emotional economics. Maximum pleasure is the only sensible value. Ethics are irrelevant unless they produce pleasure. Duration of life is irrelevant unless it consists of sustained pleasure. - 2. What a person believes(1 or 2) may be complicated.
The concept, belief, itself is not complicated once you recognize it as 2 separate concepts erroneously called by the same name.