[Dragaera] agnosticism (no flame) (was, long ago: (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons])

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Tue May 22 11:03:43 PDT 2007


David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> Kinda sorta, but not absolutely.  I find no cause to believe in any kind 
> of afterlife at all.  I certainly can't *prove* there is none, but there 
> is no evidence *for* the proposition.  So it sits in the same limbo as 
> infinitely many other propositions with no evidence; and occupies no 
> particularly preferred place in that limbo.  I don't see that as faith, 
> but as rational pruning of the tree.
>
>   
Also, irrationally, I tend to take some of the religious descriptions on 
the afterlife and how it works as evidence against the afterlife's 
existence.




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