[MD] MoQ as religion [Belief Defininition]
David Harding
davidharding at optusnet.com.au
Sat Apr 8 19:28:06 PDT 2006
Hi SA and others,
Heather Perella wrote:
> Hello David H. and others,
>
> Trust or Know?
>
> You state how "...trusting has shades of doubt."
> Sure does, and trust has shades of confidence. To
> know something does take 'being sure' a step further,
> but how many times did you know something to find out
> you were wrong?
> Trust, Belief, and Know these are words that I
> really don't think we will ever rid from experience.
> I am confident about something at times, and at other
> times I am just not very sure. What wrong with that?
>
What is 'wrong'? There's different forms of knowing, I don't think there really is any anything completely 'wrong'. To use your example, if I call you wrong, what's to say that your not just another
pair of legs walking up the same hill against the same wind?
What is better, to be confident or not very sure?
I think the MOQ allows us to be sure and to know, all of the time.
> As to being stuck on 'something', DQ is
> something, but wsurehat is 'something'. It does not have
> to be anything, and DQ is nothing. To use a word like
> 'something' is vague and an undefined entity.
I don't think so. I think something is rather definite considering 'some' is associated with a quantity rather than 'no' which is associated with the negation of a quantity or quality.
DQ is
> something and nothing, then we we identify it, and
> then that act of identifying it is making DQ, static
> quality. It's like when you said DQ is the wall.
I never said this. I used the slippery example of DQ 'merging' with the wall. I never said DQ is the wall.
I
> say DQ is the universe. Do you really know the wall
> or universe? Are you the wall or the universe? no.
> I also say Dq is not the universe and not the wall.
> I'm not trying to get you stuck on what DQ may or may
> not be. DQ is not what you think it is and when you
> do think you know DQ you don't because you would have
> SQ. That's all I've been saying.
>
And me too. :)
-David.
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