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Originally posted by Inferno
of course there is no difference between faith in gravity, reality, god, insane conspiracy theories about insects ruling the world, whatever...
But what happened to keeping your feet on the ground?
I mean, do a \"reality check :) \" once in a while in your thinking. if you don't, you can just give up thinking about anything because \"nothing is certain\"... you'll just lay there getting nowhere, since everything you think about is equally in value (or lack of it) and nothing is real :roll:
You can't discard doubt simply because it hinders your ability to accomplish your goals(which is what all people of extreme faith do). It would be like me asserting that the holocaust was a zionist hoax, and ignoring the volumes of evidence to the contrary because I'm an anti-semite.
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Well then I can go and say \"what defines an objective, physical, and scientifically-explained universe?\" You can't define it really, because \"fake\" and \"real\" don't apply to what is percieved, even if two seperate people's perceptions don't match up exactly. I just sense what I sense, and that's all there is to it. I don't waste my time thinking \"well what if it's all just an illusion (again, hard-to-define word), nothing really exists ect.\", because that kind of thinking doesn't ever get anywhere. It just doesn't mean anything.[/b]
"Fake" and "real" might not apply to perception, but "accurate" and "inaccurate" certainly do, unless you assert that there is no objective universe which is in denial of causeality and eventually leads to soliphism. Again you discount doubt because it hinders your ability to reach a decisive conclusion about the external universe, not because it is logically flawed.