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To: Greg or e who wrote (49236)3/11/2014 11:59:17 AM
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"Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error." Ayn Rand



To: Greg or e who wrote (49236)3/12/2014 2:50:29 AM
From: Solon  Respond to of 69300
 
"Faith and reason are not cosmic foes fighting on behalf of God and Satan,
respectively"


HUH! I guess not. And they are not fighting for Santa Claus, either! They are foes fighting for the victory of either superstition or reality. Simple, really if you think just a little. Try really hard!