Reasons for nonbelief

Trotsky311 · Jan 25, 2005

mati said:

ideas are copies of impressions. memory preserves the order of its' perceptions, as compared to the imagination, which is bound by no such order. At times, aided by passion and driven by emotions, the dim imaginings of our mind can come close to the more lively impressions, such as might happen at a revival meeting. The whole production is setup to amaze the congregation and appeal to what is at once the best human nature has to offer, and at other times, raise the spector of what is worst. The willing believer rides this holy roller coaster as far as they and the preacher conductor can take it. But at best, I must remain sceptical as to how well ideas can represent impressions. It is easy in this setting to confuse the two. Even our perceptions may not be identical with its´objects, and should be viewed with a certain amount of scepticism as well. What indeed can we believe?
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what can we belive? it would seem Hume's philosophy from most of that.....eh, better than descarte...that guy was out there..

Occam · Jan 27, 2005

OK
My friends
NoOne puts evil leaders in power.
They put themselves in power.

Let us speak of Stalin.
He killed by direct order, more human beings than any other in human knowing.
He did so by manipulating the 2 prime human motivations
Fear and self interest

His words
"A million deaths is a statistic, one death is a tradgedy"

Occam

BlackGuardXIII · Jan 28, 2005

Occam said:

OK
My friends
NoOne puts evil leaders in power.
They put themselves in power.

Let us speak of Stalin.
He killed by direct order, more human beings than any other in human knowing.
He did so by manipulating the 2 prime human motivations
Fear and self interest

His words
"A million deaths is a statistic, one death is a tradgedy"

Occam
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Sure, Stalin may have been personally responsible for +/- 20 million deaths, but he was a doting grandfather who wrote lovely letters to his little granddaughter. That has to count for something, huh?

Occam · Jan 28, 2005

BlackGuardXIII said:

Sure, Stalin may have been personally responsible for +/- 20 million deaths, but he was a doting grandfather who wrote lovely letters to his little granddaughter. That has to count for something, huh?
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Blackguard

Yes, i means he wrote lovely letters to his grandkids.
What else should it count for?

Occam

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