Sort of an introduction (Agnosticism)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 04:43 (5211 days ago) @ romansh

I don't know if it's the same for you, but for me the quest for knowledge never ceases. I view the power of doubt, the power of accepting a question as unknowable if even for "right now" to be a position of strength when everyone else seeks quick answers. 
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> > --Matt
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> Thanks Matt
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> Knowledge is one of those strange words for me - I think I know what it means but I'm not so sure any more. The spectrum of to know, to think, to believe, to have faith. Is there a scale of grey here?
> -Knowledge will always have a normative basis: One cannot but HAVE a normative method for establishing/validating truth claims. That is why one should be as conservative as possible. If you read dhw's overall treatise here, you would probably note that I'm what he might consider a "weak" agnostic. I recognize that the only methods we have to verify claims are necessarily materialistic. So in my case, I default to those explanations when possible. -> One of my favourite quotes is from Clarence Darrow:
> > Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.-Knowledge is a dance, but only by dancing with many different partners do you truly know the dance...

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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.\"