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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
We don't know, and can't know. World experience and science say nothing about the subject.
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and my moral sensibilities of how the universe ought to work.
And this criteria would not be considered reliable for anything else. Anything on which the reliablility could be checked.
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I know. It's unreliable. And yet I'm egotistical enough to believe it anyway. That's why it gets its own word, "faith," instead of being just like everything else. Feel free to substitute "ego" for "faith" in this whole conversation, it won't bother me--I think ego can be a good thing too. And I maintain that in the forms I have been describing, faith does not hurt anyone else, would not affect my policy decisions if I were an elected official, and is not, as queequeger initially asserted, a "bad thing."