'Little' update, long and totally OT

I, on the other hand, once dated a Moron. Full stop.

Probably? Surely you mean absolutely? I doubt very much you could come up with a valid answer sooner than 5 billion years.

*sigh* Another keyboard.

To be honest, it's not the only faith-based system I find incomprehensible.

Well, it's not really my fault this time, you surely know by now to put your fluids down before reading Usenet.

Don't you? ;-þ

ITYM "all faith based systems = incomprehensible". It's intentional, they are that way by 'design'.

HTH,

I am a slow learner.

Thanks. Since they all evolved to explain the inexplicable -- like solar eclipses, droughts, floods, storms -- they have a lot in common. But since we've figured out there are some rational causes to these events, it's a bit of a leap to believe in an invisible force or personality that is responsible for everything. But if someone is going to believe in a supernatural being, why draw the line there? Why not ghosts, faeries, elves, Easter bunnies, Santa Clauses, vampires, werewolves - I mean, it's all a matter of faith because there is no proof so there are no rules, either.

I am an inadequate teacher.

And with that fine explanation, I think this cascade should come to an end. It's been fun...

Not so much. I've lost two keyboards in 24 hours.

But all systems are faith-based, in that every system has to start

*somewhere*. Start by assuming straight lines and you've got plane geometry. Start by assuming right and wrong and you've got ethics. Start by assuming that death, pain, and disability are bad, and you've got medicine. Start by assuming that you can learn about the world by observing it, and you've got science.

Joy Beeson

As my DFIL used to say, "You've learned a valuable lesson."

I think you are confusing "hypothesis" with "faith'.

The first goes about assembling demonstrable, repeatable

*proof* to support its assumption, the other starts *and stops* with an idea and requires acceptance with no proof at all, and further, challenging the idea is called "heresy".

Indeed. Put coffee or Coke down, swallow, before opening USENET. I wonder if I should embroider the motto....

Well of course, why else do you have the Singer Quantum XL6000??? Glad you brought this 'thread' back to sewing. ;-)

Full circle. Via the Andromeda galaxy, but still. Full circle.

It's been fun. Welcome home. ;)

Thank you. Could we have tea and cucumber sandwiches, please?