Iacchus said:
Now it's your turn huh? I see, and this is what they call creative writing, right?
And, as if you have nothing better to do?
My turn? No, we do not have some queue here. I don't check in with the others. And I do not call this creative writing. Mine is not creative; it merely questions yours. And yours...is simply not creative.
Anything better to do? That depends. If you are actually on the cusp, and might actually examine your own beliefs and learn something...then there is not much better that I could do. If, on the other hand, you are disingenuous, and are merely trolling...well, then, what do you really care whether I have something better to do?
I call it being selective. And neither does it gives me bad dreams at night thinking about your beliefs. Which, is all they are, your beliefs.
You may call it what you wish. Around here, your particular vocabulary is already noted.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs: they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'
'Would you tell me, please,' said Alice, 'what that means?'
'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.'
'Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.
Funny thing...
some of my "beliefs" are actually testable. Those ones, if tested and found wanting, are ready to be improved upon. Some others are mere assumptions (Hammegk and I actually reached agreement once, to recognise our own assumptions and treat them as assumptions rather than as bedrock. I highly recommend examining your own beliefs, to see which among them are testable, and which are merely assumptions.
You see, Iacchus...you have a boatload of assumptions that you treat as if bedrock!). So, yeah, some are my beliefs. Others are my beliefs, backed up by empirical examination. You should try it sometime. It does not guarantee you are right, but it does a great job of eliminating unsupportable beliefs. (Oh...in case you missed it...some of your writings are unsupportable. It should make you blush, but it does not appear to...)
By the way, that would be Cousin Pentheus who's out on limb here, right before it snaps and he falls to his doom, and has his head torn off by his very own mother. Why? Because he insisted on mocking that which he didn't understand.
Sorry, bubba, not gonna click. Lemme guess, though...I gotta go with some centuries-old myth, without one iota of evidence, maybe even Jung or Swedenborg, trotted out as an argument from authority or history or some such tripe. Close?
Absolutely!
Hey, it's okay to have a belief in something by the way, at least it give you a place to begin your search.
If one actually does search. You, Iacchus, do not. You ask questions which you have no intention of really examining. You deflect, you dodge and weave, you distract with non-sequitors...You do everything
but actually search.
Months ago, you were advised to read what others have said about your same questions...so, what has been your reading list for the past months? Does it include any experimental methodology? Perhaps some experimental psychology (and no, Jung does
not count as a psychologist)? Some religious criticism? Evolutionary biology? Physics? Philosophy? Or are you content to write your own "book", and ignore the contributions of others who have dedicated their lives to the study of your questions...