Thread: My beliefs
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Old 10-30-2003, 07:09 PM   #6
Faceman
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Join Date: February 18, 2002
Location: Vienna
Age: 43
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Let me join the group and elaborate my beliefs:
I am what you'd commonly call an Agnostic and concerning philosophy I appreciate the thoughts of many (mostly Ancient Greek and Enlightenment) philosophers. Yet there is only one sentence I trust to be true: "scio nescio", I know that I don't know.
This makes it hard to believe in anything and even harder to find the sense of life because I'm always aware that I could be erring completely. The workaround I have found is the simple way of assumption. Making logical decisions is not so hard, and when it occurs to me that I might be completely wrong (although I'm pretty sure about it) I just have to take that risk instead of making no decision at all.
Concerning god or divine beings I don't believe in the religious sense, and I have concluded that I really can't know if there is a divine being so as long as I can't see any influence on me I'd have to deal with I rather not care.
Concerning god and religion as a human creation I have the greatest respect for religious people who give their live sense by believing and living according to their beliefs as long as they don't harm others in fanatical pursuit of their faith.
I try to explain the world for myself with the laws of physics but I don't deny the existence of something mystical. I just never came across it and therefore never had the opportunity to reflect on it, should it exist.
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