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

To: one_less who wrote (82081)	1/7/2010 2:36:29 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's the thing Less, if you want to say that things are true (and I think you do) then you have to have some basis for saying so. I just wanted to know what that was. You seem happy to say "that's just the way things are" without giving any further philosophical justification. That's a conversation stopper plain and simple. It's not a matter of "disqualifying" it's a matter of logical consistency and supporting truth claims through evidence and argumentation. As far as my views being "religious" and yours not; You're just fooling yourself. It does not matter that you have not ascribed yourself to a formal system. The sum of your individual views about God, religion, the universe and what it means to be Human make up your worldview and yes it's a religious view. Everyones worldview falls somewhere along the lines of broad categories that have been recognized by those who study such things for a long time. To say or think that you have no worldview is akin to someone saying that they have never studied philosophy and formalized their particular views so therefore they don't have a philosophy. Everyone who is conscious has a philosophy. Everyone who considers religion and it's implications has a religious point of view. The only way around it is to ignore and not talk about or consider religion, but even that is a view of religion as unimportant. You don't want to lay your cards on the table. Fine; but name calling and armchair psychoanalyzing is not advancing anything.