Salutatio Mark!
01-Apr-98, Mark Bloss wrote to Relatif Tuinn
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 RT>> Why can't you accept it?
 MB> Because it is illogical to do so, since true faith has always
 MB> brought people happiness in their lives, and I don't believe
 MB> anyone without faith can understand what true happiness is, until
 MB> they have experienced it, just as I, and many others of true
 MB> faith, have.
So my gleeful outlook toward life is not real, or my happiness about what
my life is is false just because I have no faith in an, assumed all
powerful creature?  In all this time on this echo, you still do not know
me.
 MB> This is apparently a vast generalization; 
No kidding, Mark.
 MB> but
 MB> narrows the scope radically as those who throughout history, only
 MB> those whose faith has made them happy (eudomonial), have managed
 MB> to adjust to the physical circumstances of an ardous fight for
 MB> survival, and drive an evolution from microbe to Reflecters of
 MB> Meaning; a symbol not just of Man, but of all conscious entities
 MB> in the universe, whether we an see them with our eyes, or not. and
 MB> that even our eyes we have learned are deceptive and tell lies.
Here we go again.  Mark, it is not faith that makes people happy, it is
satisfaction.  Which includes faith, success, simple enjoyment of
things, etc.
I am not hammering at your personal beliefs, but it seems rather narrow to
say that only some silly belief in a god that may or may not exist can 
achieve happiness.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@nucleus.com) 
Richard Meic
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