How do you ascertain the worth in a worldview?
Do you go on the actions of its practitioners.
Do you go on the apparent benefits the worldview brings their mindset and life?
Perhaps you ignore the practitioners and look at the originator and their life.
Do you focus on the ideas alone. Do the ideas inherant within a philosophy attract you?
Do you incorporate different views under one umbrella? If so:
(a)How do you balance the worth of accumulated wisdom within a balanced and layered view with your own perspective and the idea that you can know more than the originator(s).
(b)What is the balance between your behavioural choices and your theological/cosmic beliefs. Does one outweigh the other?
Have you had a supernatural experience?
Perhaps you have balanced all the above?
I am interested in the
process by which you come to a conclusion. Thus there is no right or wrong. I do not wish to engage in a discussion or argument about the merits or correctness of the said beliefs, just how and why you came to hold them. There will be aspects I have not included, so do not feel limited by those listed.
Post away! Post away!
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I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....
A fair dinkum laughing Hyena!
[This message has been edited by Yorick (edited 08-28-2001).]