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To: epicure who wrote (4219)	3/22/2002 2:25:54 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

"Why qualify the possibility with "partially wrong"?" Part of what constitutes the human condition includes the ability to seek and find, grow and develop. I have not met a human being that I would consider a perfect master of the truth. That does not mean that what constitutes truth is without foundation but as we seek, we find more and more richness. As we attempt to interpret and apply we find ourselves struggling to make sense of our experience. Causal attributions are the most troubling. If any person were to come to me and say they had the complete explanation for how the higher order of things exists, I would for sure be a skeptic. This is just not what I understand a human being is capable of. So, my conclusion is that any such explanations are partially wrong, that I need to use common sense, experience, and my best judgement when presented with information about my existense and the order of things. Could everyone be wrong, absolutely wrong? Of course. I have no motivation for living except for the possibility that there is a higher purpose for living than contributing to primordial soup. I have a feeling of what it would be like to believe that is all there is too it. That feeling is a perfidious drive toward materialism. I don't believe the rewards of such are worth the effort of life. History shows that even attempting to become the emporer of the world results in personal disaster. I choose to believe in a higher order that promotes moral goodness for the sake of non-material rewards. This can only be understood by viewing life as having a higher purpose supported by order. The promise of such rewards give life purpose and seem to me to be worth the struggle.