[gav] (am i helping at all or should i give up?) [Krimel] Depends on what you are trying to do. I understand what you are saying. I don't understand why you would pursue or put much stock in it.
It is a style of thinking that I found very hard to shake free of personally. Perhaps you have to actually watch a few on the fringe crash and burn before you start to get it. Von Danekin, Castaneda, Velikovsky, pyramid power, crystals, troops of scruffy gurus, Hal Lindsey, apricot pits, Uri Geller, and on and on. Eventually after enough of them crash and burn you start to smell the smoke at a distance. As David Hume says of Skepticism: "Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind, its rash arrogance, its lofty pretensions, and its superstitious credulity. Every passion is mortified by it, except the love of truth; and that passion never is, nor can be, carried to too high a degree." He goes on to speculate on why this proves to be so unpopular. "By flattering no irregular passion, it gains few partisans: By opposing so many vices and follies, it raises to itself abundance of enemies, who stigmatize it as libertine, profane, and irreligious." I can only imagine your annoyance and dismissal of Hume's assessment. But let me end with this from Wiki: "Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence or rationality." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
