--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no reason the magic money making box couldn't have existed. > > Sure there is. It violates many laws of how shit works that we have > discovered. > > just as > > we are talking about other subjects that can't be proven, this one > > can't either. > > An accountant would be able to eliminate most of the obvious sources > for the funds that ran the Math and locate the actual accounts the > money came from. This is the kind of rumor that exists because we > don't have access to the Math's financial records. > > but rather than declare the lack of proof as the > > reason the magic money making box couldn't have existed, i'd rather > > turn that reasoning on its head, and say that is the reason the > > money making box could've existed. there is a 50-50 probability. > > Then you are taking an extreme skeptical position on our ability to > know things within probabilities. All options are not equally likely > or we would never be able to advance out knowledge. It isn't just a > lack of proof that makes this claim unlikely. It is our confidence in > how the world works from our collective experiences. Just because we > can be wrong or have incomplete knowledge about reality doesn't mean > we can't ever be confident in our probability choices for knowledge. > And in this case extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof > because it violates all sorts of well founded beliefs on how the world > functions from our experience. > > Now if many of us had experienced boxes that could generate currency > that was magically valid in the banking system of a country (I believe > it was coins or bills rather than raw gold that the box was supposed > to produce)then the odds of Guru Dev having his very own would go up. > But I sure haven't seen one or heard about one except in this > movement rumor so the odds for me go way, way down. > yeah, i shouldn't have tied it to odds-- 50-50.
i do enjoy the process of keeping an open mind though, even when i don't want a particular story to be true. this reincarnation discussion is a perfect example-- i'd love to side with the reincarnation folks, but keeping an open mind means that there are more discoveries in the direction away from reincarnation. this is why i like the story of the money box- it is too cool to ignore, and i can think of several ways in which it could be possible.
