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 Highly Bodacious
Jovialist
Registered: 06/22/08
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 My Philosophy...
#8567186 - 06/26/08 03:02 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Believe nothing. Learn everything.
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PhanTomCat
Wildcat that Never Was....
 
Registered: 09/07/04
Posts: 5,539
Loc: My Youniverse....
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Highly Bodacious said:
Believe nothing. Learn everything.
To "learn" something, don't you have to presume that it is worth believing....? 
>^;;^<
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"The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...."
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Mr.Al
Alphabet soup
Registered: 05/27/07
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 Re: My Philosophy... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8567621 - 06/26/08 04:33 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Is learning believing? It would be nicer to arrive at direct knowledge without needing to build up a foundation of information that could prove erroneous later on. Can consciousness apprehend truth directly? Is directly knowing something verifiable?
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PhanTomCat
Wildcat that Never Was....
Registered: 09/07/04
Posts: 5,539
Loc: My Youniverse....
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 Re: My Philosophy... [Re: Mr.Al]
#8567678 - 06/26/08 04:46 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Ya~ know, my question above is not correct....
A person can read (learn about) a book like the Bible without believing it.....
HHhhmmmm....
I hereby withdraw my question.... 
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Mr.Al said:
Is learning believing? It would be nicer to arrive at direct knowledge without needing to build up a foundation of information that could prove erroneous later on. Can consciousness apprehend truth directly? Is directly knowing something verifiable?
Some truths, yes....
Instincts could be considered "the truth" - in a subjective way.... Eeehhh.....?
"Directly knowing something", from what I have heard about Nikola Tesla, he had his own version of a seemingly direct knowledge....
I am sure this could be argued as to how he came about his "new knowledge", but his ideas were also verified later thru time....
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"The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...."
>^;;^<
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 Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 21,803
Loc: underbelly
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Highly Bodacious said:
Believe nothing. Learn everything.
Around here its Believe everything, learn nothing.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. R.A.W.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. R.A.W.
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