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Date Posted: 09:12:14 09/29/08 Mon
Author: iteo
Subject: Re: Time Monks
In reply to: Michael 's message, "Re: Time Monks" on 01:11:59 09/29/08 Mon

>You seem to be both encouraging people to believe
>almost ANYTHING, and now saying believe NOTHING.

I can only guess that you're not reading my posts carefully. I have always stated that nothing should be believed but at the same time, no one should be too quick to dismiss even farfetched ideas.

And I am sorry if it pisses you off, but I do like to examine farfetched ideas and discuss them. Long before my epiphany I always enjoyed researching ideas that mainstream followers laughed at, but never felt the need to "believe" these ideas.

And I know for certain that this attitude led directly to my epiphany. When I learned about the pentagon's climate report

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/02/25/pentagoners/">http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/02/25/pentagoners/</a>

that said a ice age might be coming between 2010-2020, I immediately started researching the Mayan calendar because of their 2012 end date. I knew very little about their calendar, and was very skeptical, but I wondered if perhaps they had discovered something that modern science had not.

Now if I was an Organ Morgan or perhaps even yourself, I would have stayed cloistered in my belief system and wouldn't have ventured beyond it to discover the truth.

Beliefs create expectations and, IMHO, boxes around an open mind. I am completely convinced that my own epiphany occurred because I believed in very little and yet accepted that nearly anything is possible.

Of course even I had a closed my mind to some things, and virtually all have some beliefs. So I agree that the truth lies in the middle. The most important thing is not to be too married to your beliefs that you can't see truth when it hits you in the face.

>You can beleive that belief will get you no where, but
>that is a belief that WILL get you no where.
>
>You seem to be both encouraging people to believe
>almost ANYTHING, and now saying believe NOTHING.
>
>As is often the case, the truth lies somewhere between
>these two extremes. That is why we have discrimination
>as a faculty.
>
>>At this point I think we're beating a dead horse.
>>Believe what you want, but beliefs will get you no
>>where.

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Replies:

Re: Time Monks -- Organ Morgan, 11:40:54 09/29/08 Mon
- Re: Time Monks -- iteo, 12:12:37 09/29/08 Mon
  - Re: Time Monks -- michael, 16:21:02 09/29/08 Mon
    - Re: Time Monks -- iteo, 19:11:20 09/29/08 Mon
      - Re: Time Monks -- Michael, 01:16:25 09/30/08 Tue