---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 5/1/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Only to a Marshy/Benjy Creme sycophant like you Nabster - Curtis comes across as pretty rational and balanced to people not wearing a My-Guru-Makes-Me-Special blinders. > What you need to realize is that Curtis and Barry sold the names of the Hindu gods for money and THEN they did a 180 after twenty years - so why would anything they say now be taken as rational? C: I've done 180 on beliefs I held yesterday Richard. Haven't you? Your standard for judging rationality from the perspective of the past is seriously flawed. But on the other hand I don't ever expect anyone to assume anything I say is anything, that is up to you to decide its value today. Not from the perspective of ideas I once held and then discarded. When Lincoln was accused of flip flopping on a POV he said "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." R:According to Sam Harris, if a person declares a belief in something like human levitation, this alone should immediately make their every statement suspect in the eyes of anyone they are dialoging with - because asserting a similarly non-evidentiary point on a religious doctrine ought to be met with similar disrespect. C: I guess it is precisely the evidentiary nature of the experience you are referring to that is the relevant issue isn't it? R: Which is not to say they aren't nice people and talented, but even common sense would dictate that they be questioned closely concerning their own beliefs. Which is not to say that you aren't a nice person and talented, but you are acting like a True Believer yourself, if for no other reason than you are practicing a Chinese Kung Fu religion for two years and sucking up to Curtis and Barry now. Go figure. C: I didn't get that last part but I would be the first to advocate being highly skeptical of anything I write here and use your own proof system and bullshit detector. i certainly try to run the same thing on myself and others here but am as subject to human folly and personal bias as anyone. That means anyone. We do our best and still get it wrong anyway. I am happy to approach being less obviously wrong about what I believe. That seems like enough to bite off for me. Are you doing any better? This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
