Knowledge is not an Absolute
Ever wonder why we don't all agree? Why you can't even get your best friend to agree with you that the Broncos will win the SuperBowl? And you just KNOW they will!
I met a Muslimite girl who told me she KNEW Allah was bigger than J.C. As we were discussing this issue, a guy with a yarmulke turned from the wall he'd been wailing at and politely interrupting, he told me that the Muslimite girl was incorrect, or worse, lying.
The Muslimite bridled with the accusation and stoutly, not to mention, hotly, that Allah was the One. She spit at yarmulke boy, who seemed not to notice. The two of them began to scream at each other.
This little scene attracted some attention and a couple of guys, in white shirts and ties, both with the first name "Elder" pushed their way through to me. "What's going on?" one of them asked. I explained the difference of opinion in re God the two were having. One of them reached into a back pack and handed me a Book of Mormon. The other one spoke in a low voice, without letting his lips move, "Read this. Then you'll know the real God." With a two-fingered tip of the hat at me, they made their way through the throng.
At this point three people had told me each one KNEW the truth, and they'd each contradicted the other two. I was very strongly of the opinion they could all three be wrong.
When it comes to religion, I, personally, think everyone who "knows" the truth is wrong. It would be the simplest explanation.
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2 comments:
Do you think knowing truth and feeling something is true are two different things?
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When it comes to science, they can't be the same. Physical laws can't be broken; or at least you couldn't make a living betting people you could jump off a five story building and not be injured. I know from personal experience that there are times in our lives that we think with enough faith we could fly, or move mountains, but there are no venture capitalists investing in people who want to break physical laws.
When it comes to things not amenable to physical laws, such as belief in a higher power, there is simply no point to trying to prove one system of belief is 'true'... meaning all the others systems are NOT true. That way lies madness, not to mention that it is the essence of humanity.
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