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To: Matchett-PI
Why Trust Your Mind If No One Made It?

At least two bad premises in one short sentence.

You sort of have to trust your mind, even though you know you can't. Still, it's all you have and you're stuck with it. All your other tools for understanding your world have to go through and register in your mind.

Your mind is no more and no less finite and untrustworthy regardless of its origin. It is what it is. I can live with the idea that my individual mind was not designed by an anthropomorphic sentient designer, much less an all-powerful one. It has trouble remembering where the car keys are.

47 posted on 12/26/2005 10:12:44 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
Matchett-PI: "Why Trust Your Mind If No One Made It?"

VadeRetro: "At least two bad premises in one short sentence.You sort of have to trust your mind, even though you know you can't. ..

"Sort of have to"??? "Even though you know YOU CAN'T" ????

Now that is some admission! :)

VadeRetro: "I can live with the idea that my individual mind was not designed by an anthropomorphic sentient designer, much less an all-powerful one..."

So I see. LOL

But things are much more complicated than the natural man can perceive. :)

40 and 48

109 posted on 12/26/2005 12:16:13 PM PST by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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