[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[kieffer odigaunt]

Hi All,

why wont those religious dudes have faith in the scientific view? why are
they so skeptical of all the evidence?

Maybe, there is a more fundamental difference in mindset between the
religious and the atheist - pessimism and optimism.

-KO


2009/2/26 Andre Broersen <andrebroersen at gmail.com>

> > dmb said MP said to Andre [who supposedly said]:
> > I disagree. [That Quality is known in experience and requires no
> > faith.]
>
> MP: That's not what Andre said. Andre said:
> "Quality you experience and is *affirmed* every minute of the moment. No
> faith
> required, constantly *affirmed.*"
>
> Andre says that since writing these words reality has changed but these
> words haven't. It also reflects the high/low quality a writer encounters
> when writing a book. It has a tendency of 'developng a life of its own'
> either whilst writing it or after it has been published. In the latter case
> the readers extract their own interpretation of the writing and the writer
> cannot change this interpretation other than applauding (if it matches
> his/her own) or denying (if it doesn't).
> This has little to do with the skill of the writer..more so with the static
> patterns of the reader and confirms once more Pirsig's observation that
> believing is seeing.
>
> Andre
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