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Compare this to your definition above. He can claim to be rational if he is generally rational. What reason do you have, to think that a person's one irrational belief is sufficient to deny that person's general rationality? Btw yes I was trying to be clever with words. Clearly, I'm not very good at it. |
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If we consider instinct, which manifests in life due to genetic memory, to be a form of knowledge, then I think we may have access to a feeling of knowing, which is not based on reason, and yet which may be valid. Just a thought. What do you suppose it feels like to be aware of a genetic memory? ------------------------------------------------------ When I think of Scotland, I think of castles and golf and mist. And the damn british. What do you think of? |
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" the damn British" note I added a capital to your quote for " british" do you have a trace of french blood somewhere? |
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Interesting discussion so far. I think the "legitimate irrationals" (at least on religious and some other subjects) are winning so far. PS ------- A lot of people dislike the Brits and justifiably so. Definitely the Scots---and the Irish------and of course their long time enemies, the French. I am half Brit in ancestry myself------but I usually take the French anti-Brit side. |
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Even during WW2, some french prisonners who were dispatched to work on German farms as free labor built relationships with the german farmers. |
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Nowhere, I don't really understand where you are going with this emotion business. It sounds like you are trying to say that God exists because you want him to. That somehow your emotions are proof of external reality. Actually it's coming across that your emotions are the cause of external reality but that's too "irrational" even for this thread, so I must be wrong.
Please explain how a Theist's emotional state is a rational indicator of the existence of a God. And while you are at it you might explain why an Atheists emotional state is invalid on this topic. |
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