Do you believe that intelligent educated people in their right mind should believe as you believe?
I believe that people need not agree with me. I do not expect anyone who disagrees with my beliefs can be convinced to agree with my worldview. I believe all worldviews are rooted in assumptions that are simply believed without direct knowledge.
If you do not accept my assumptions, I do not feel the need to change your mind.
I suppose a secondary question would be if you think your belief defines reality or does reality exist outside your belief?
21 Dec 17
Originally posted by @eladarIs this your stance as a Christian? If so, do you have any scriptural back-up for it?
I believe that people need not agree with me. I do not expect anyone who disagrees with my beliefs can be convinced to agree with my worldview. I believe all worldviews are rooted in assumptions that are simply believed without direct knowledge.
Originally posted by @eladarIs this attitude part of your god figure's scheme of "revelation" and "salvation" for human beings? Is Jesus "flowing out" of you ~ because you are a Christian ~ as sonship claims?
If you do not accept my assumptions, I do not feel the need to change your mind.
Originally posted by @eladarThe terms "intelligent" and "educated" and "right mind" refer to variables and "people" refers to a group with almost boundless diversity. So I think someone believing that intelligent educated people in their right mind should necessarily believe the same things as they believe is the realm of childlike thinking, fanaticism, or a risible dearth of experience.
Do you believe that intelligent educated people in their right mind should believe as you believe?
Originally posted by @fmfSo I take it that you expect people to disagree with you.
The terms "intelligent" and "educated" and "right mind" refer to variables and "people" refers to a group with almost boundless diversity. So I think someone believing that intelligent educated people in their right mind should necessarily believe the same things as they believe is the realm of childlike thinking, fanaticism, or a risible dearth of experience.
Thanks, you came very close to answering the question.
Originally posted by @eladarQ1: It depends on the belief. It's important that people agree with me that rape is wrong. It's much less important that they share my belief that there aren't any gods.
Do you believe that intelligent educated people in their right mind should believe as you believe?
I believe that people need not agree with me. I do not expect anyone who disagrees with my beliefs can be convinced to agree with my worldview. I believe all worldviews are rooted in assumptions that are simply believed without direct knowledge.
If you do ...[text shortened]... ion would be if you think your belief defines reality or does reality exist outside your belief?
Q2: Reality exists outside my beliefs. If I discover my beliefs don't match reality, my beliefs change.
Originally posted by @bigdoggproblemQ2
Q1: It depends on the belief. It's important that people agree with me that rape is wrong. It's much less important that they share my belief that there aren't any gods.
Q2: Reality exists outside my beliefs. If I discover my beliefs don't match reality, my beliefs change.
Do you believe you can ever know actual truth or just a hunch?
21 Dec 17
Originally posted by @eladarI think it's sometimes possible to know the actual truth. The most obvious example is a mathematical proof of a theorem.
Q2
Do you believe you can ever know actual truth or just a hunch?
I don't think knowledge requires 100% certainty. I think a strong inductive belief can constitute "knowledge".
21 Dec 17
FMF: Does your OP reflect your worldview and obligations as a Christian? If so, do you have any scriptural back-up for it?Romans 14 appears to appears to be about squabbles between Christians ~ about things like dietary rules. Was your OP only about such squabbles between Christians? It didn't read like that. Is there some other passage from the Bible you have that supports your OP?
Originally posted by @eladar
Romans 14
21 Dec 17
Originally posted by @bigdoggproblemI mean know the truth about things like God and the afterlife.
I think it's sometimes possible to know the actual truth. The most obvious example is a mathematical proof of a theorem.
I don't think knowledge requires 100% certainty. I think a strong inductive belief can constitute "knowledge".