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to: Robert Comer
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2004-08-08 16:05:02
subject: Re: The EU Atheist Sloth Ethic

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:41161431$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I think it could be what the word "belief" means to us that is
different.
> > I'd fight to death for my family, probably friends and their families as
> > well. I'd also be willing to fight for many many other humans, but not
> > really for beliefs. To me, what I believe in means not much.
>
> It's possible that you are attaching far less to the meaning "beliefs"
> than we do.

Yep, could be. For me, beliefs are just beliefs and nothing more. They can
just as well be wrong.


> I don't see anything in your description on how you live,
> and that's part of beliefs to me.

Not for me. I like the way I live, but if my life depended on changing the
way I live I'd change it, no problem. People around the world live in very
different ways, and many of them could be just as good. How I live is not a
belief but a simple fact of life.


Antti Kurenniemi

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