Subject: Re: Music, religion, etc.
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 16:51:18 EST
In a message dated 1/11/00 10:22:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes:
<< Actually, it's also a falacy that experience proves anything to anyone
other than the people who have experienced it. >>
It's not a fallacy, J, it's my whole point. See, people are reading and
responding and not thinking. The point under discussion is
1. The inherent irrationality of religious faith.
as introduced by Robbie. My point is that people believe, not on the basis
of logical proof, but on the basis of personal experience. And I said
(repeatedly) that no one should believe unless **they themselves** have had
that experience.
Now please pay attention. This stage of the discussion is wearying to me
simply because people aren't paying attention.
I also said, in a much earlier post to Robbie, that Occam's Razor (as I
learned it from a copy of his philosophical discourses that I loaned and
never got back) that it is indeed about not multiplying hypothesis.
Again, Robbie introduced that to support his point, not me to support mine,
and you wisely abandon it if you do indeed seek to support his position :)
My point again.
Now, I'm willing to keep this up, but you guys have got to start paying
closer attention.
Jim
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