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To: Patriot Politics

I only have faith in what I can see hear smell taste and touch. Everything else is Voodoo.


21 posted on 07/28/2013 10:19:41 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: BigCinBigD
That's why this article was written--to show you that isn't necessarily the case. You even admit yourself you have faith (albeit, subtly.)

Everything else is Voodoo.

This implies that things which can not be directly or indirectly observed must not exist. This is despite the fact that there are many things which can never be observed by any human in any way, yet are most definitely true. For example, the paradox of other minds posits that it is impossible to be certain that other people are truly sentient and not simply complex robots that react appropriately (or for that matter, any other solipsism.) It is very much impossible to observe other minds, the passage of time, the existence of knowledge, or many other philosophic paradoxes including reality itself.

In the end, whether you believe you live in the Matrix, or that other people exist and reality is true, you exhibit some form of faith in unobservable phenomenon. For this reason, I would urge you to be a bit more open minded and critical instead of categorizing everything into a false dichotomy of either "observable" or "Voodoo."
36 posted on 07/29/2013 3:46:04 AM PDT by Patriot Politics
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