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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (37483)	11/19/2001 4:47:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I am fairly cavalier about dismissing things that make no sense to me. The Easter bunny makes no sense to me. God makes no sense to me. I can laugh about that. That he may make sense to other people is fine with me. But I can laugh about that too. (But I try not to laugh AT people, only at their follies, as I preceive them) It is often not fine with other people that God makes no sense to me. But that is their problem. If the universe is expanding ( we only know it is expanding relative to us), then the space itself may be expanding. If space folds back on itself, like a mobius strip, there may be no "end" as we conceive it. Then again, space might be infinite. The only edge we can be sure about is the light we see at the edge of the universe, which may or may not have anything to do with the boundaries of space. It is a metaphysical question as far as we are concerned, imo, because we just don't know. Some day it may not be metaphysical. I like it that fundamental questions remain a mystery, and I see no reason to "believe" something untestable, because there are some questions I cannot answer "for sure".

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (37483)	11/19/2001 5:24:44 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

My point was simply that when neither of us can answer the most fundamental questions about our existence, we ought not to be too cavalier in dismissing anyone else's explanations That doesn't make sense. If an explanation made sense to someone they would obviously not dismiss it; they would use it as their answer. To suggest that one should not dismiss answers they have dismissed is bizarre. What do you expect is the intelligent thing to do once one has judged an explanation as inadequate? Embrace it?