Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread Edward Britton
Dale: test Belief is the enemy. -- John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies John Keel was wrong: Insisting that others share X belief is the enemy. :-) In religion and politics, there are two kinds of people: those who wish to control others and those who wish to remain free. The only means

Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread thew
Title: Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman Belief is the opposite of knowing. You need beliefs, because not all theories are tested out yet you do not know everything, but please try to keep them separate. on 3/5/02 11:50 AM, Edward Britton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale: test Belief

Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread Dale Stonehouse
-Caveat Lector- And we come around to Keel again. Not just opposite, but the enemy of knowing. This was in the context of his research on the Mothman. He felt the beliefs of those seeing whatever they were seeing determined what they saw. If they actually saw something which did not exist in

Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread thew
-Caveat Lector- As Bob Wilson said so eloquently : Convictions cause Convicts on 3/5/02 12:04 PM, Dale Stonehouse at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- And we come around to Keel again. Not just opposite, but the enemy of knowing. This was in the context of his research on the

Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread Edward Britton
Belief is the opposite of knowing. For humans, there is no such thing as knowing. Knowing is an arbitrary absolute. There are, however, greater and lesser degrees of understanding. You need beliefs, because not all theories are tested out yet you do not know everything, I need to

Re: [CTRL] test--Mothman

2002-03-05 Thread Edward Britton
And we come around to Keel again. Not just opposite, but the enemy of knowing. This was in the context of his research on the Mothman. He felt the beliefs of those seeing whatever they were seeing determined what they saw. If they actually saw something which did not exist in their belief