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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (93913)	1/18/2005 3:24:11 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

One cannot obtain an objective device (like a thermostat) to set peoples' religious belief tolerance level because it is entirely INTERNAL process. There is no external God measurement, but there seems to be an internal God for some people (edit: MOST people). Some people are also absolutely convinced of their internal God being an external God, but can provide no "thermostat" to provide the measurement. To point this out is not mockery, but does show that "believers" of this kind of thing ("There is a God and it has these properties...") are DIFFERENT than those who believe the room is too hot or cold, which can be measured by a thermometer. The fault is English which uses "belief" to mean two things. One is the belief without needing proof of internally referenced ideas ("I believe in God" or "I love thinking"), and the other is to mean something subjective but externally measurable like "comfort" by a thermostat. There is a gradient ("She is pretty") that can be measured with a device, surprisingly. Link:http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.html A "pretty-meter" has been shown to represent ratios values for spacing and size of features, but there is also a cultural element so this tends to be more of a squishy area. I've yet to see a God-ometer of any kind. I'm sorry you don't get that. The two groups will never agree. That's all I pointed out. Science belongs to the first group. Better or worse are absolute terms that don't mean anything here. So if you believe that I'm better or worse than you on this matter, then this also can't be instrumented.