[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Michael Poloukhine]

> > [Krimel]
> > Quality and "simple biological self preservation" are one and the
> > same thing. 
> 
> MP: then why bother calling it Quality?
> 
> [Krimel]
> See my post to Marsha for an elaboration but in short: Quality is a what
> Case calls the sense of senses. It allows the combination of discrete
> sensory input into a unity. The mammals all have this. In humans it is
> further developed and includes much more than issues of life and death. We
> actually enjoy having our emotional responses manipulated. Music does this.
> So does storytelling. Modern forms of the narrative arts are nothing short
> of guided meditations during which we lose all sense of self and allow our
> emotions and experience to be manipulated by the actors and director. So
> Quality in this way has a much greater significance that "simple biological
> self preservation". 

MP: Nice idea. I'm saying "Prove it." If you can't prove it, then how do you come 
to affirm such an idea to be fact not fiction?

I'm saying the *only* way (if Quality is to be as RMP has it) is through faith; 
affirmation absent proof. And (back to how this started) in Arlo's world, that 
might as well be talking about Leprechauns.


MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."