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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (86327)8/24/2000 11:25:25 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Freedom is NOT worthless unless it is exercised. I have the freedom to do all KINDS of things I don't choose to do, that does not make freedom worthless.

And your "likely" beliefs do indeed as you say depend on your "web" assumptions. Since a certain percentage of assumptions- in this complex "web" are bound to be faulty I would think fixing on to conclusions should be kept to a minimum if one wishes to be logical and one cares whether one is correct.

If you don't care whether your conclusions match reality (or some type of reality if there is more than one reality) then I see no problem with making as many conclusions as you like. But that is a different argument. If you care to find out about the true nature of reality- I think it is important to make as few decisions about realty as possible, because they are bound to limit your mind. You can contemplate the existence of God(s) without making a decision about that existence- conclusions seem to me completely unnecessary.
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