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Old 12-15-2006, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Markus74 View Post
I've got none. And I doubt there can be even one that explains everything. And I don't want to spoil the surprise we'll face after we die
Wouldn't it be a real shame if we die and discover that after death, everything is just as uncertain? I would ask for my money back, at the very least.

But seriously, you can't have no theory--you have to believe in something. If you're religious, you have faith in your religion's tenets. If you're an objectivist, then you have faith in conventional science. Even if you're a nihilist, you have faith in the conviction that it's pointless/irrational/unwise to have faith in anything. So the point of my question was to ask what faith you're coming from.

Whatever faith you bring to the table provides you with the assumptions that make it completely rational for you to see another's viewpoint as completely irrational. And vice versa.
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