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Charles Wright wrote:
>That is, that "what is seen is temporal but what is unseen is
>eternal."
Oh? What makes the unseen eternal? How do you know it is?
Then Charles wrote:
>Take God, for example. One can know beyond a shadow of a
>doubt that He exists without ever having seen Him -- that is, having
>no certainty in the usual sense of the word. Truth is only understood
>by faith.
No... one cannot know anything by "faith". We know nothing by "faith", nor
by whim, nor by emotion.
Rather, our epistemology, our way of knowing things, is through the use of
reason.
Reason tells us that there are no mystical beings such as are referred to
as: "Gods",
psychics, magicians, faith healers, etc., etc.
>Our concept of certainty, or knowledge, is, in truth, just something
>we strongly believe.
No... our concept of certainty, or knowledge, is based on our use of our
rational faculty, our use of reason.
All the best,
The Omega Man (TM)
I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake
of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wright <redeemed10@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Samuel K. Tennis <skt@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Trading as a way to financial success (a reply)
Yes indeedy. A person who questions what most take for "certainty" is
well on the way to a true understanding of the nature of reality.
That is, that "what is seen is temporal but what is unseen is
eternal." Take God, for example. One can know beyond a shadow of a
doubt that He exists without ever having seen Him -- that is, having
no certainty in the usual sense of the word. Truth is only understood
by faith.
Our concept of certainty, or knowledge, is, in truth, just something
we strongly believe. We don't really KNOW that the sun will rise
tomorrow, but many of us strongly believe it, and we order our lives
as though this thing we believe were a certainty. But really, a
strong belief sounds sorta like 'faith,' doesn't it? Many people who
would recoil at the concept of 'living by faith' really do it more
than they realize.
So, the question isn't, "Is faith a valid means of understanding," but
rather, "what will I have faith in -- what will I strongly believe?"
I suggest the Truth. FWIW
Another radical message,but hey, I've been in the closet too long!
CW
---"Samuel K. Tennis" <skt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Below is a message from my father. Thought it might stir up a
couple of
> the more theoretical types on the list...
>
> skt
>
>
> >From: Halltennis@xxxxxxx
> >Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:59:14 EDT
> >To: skt@xxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: Re: Trading as a way to financial success (a reply)
> >
> >A famous math technician, Gregory somebody (I can find his name and
the
> >quotation, if you like) said that WE DO NOT HAVE A CRYSTAL CLEAR
DEFINITION
> >OF WHAT WE MEAN BY RANDOM. He is one of the guys who, a couple
years ago,
> >carried Pi out to over two billion decimal places.
> >His work told me that 1) if we dont know about random, then we
don't know
> >about certainty, either. 2)as a result, I decided that
discontinuity was the
> >(since changed to "an" operating/organizing principal of the
universe. Now I
> >have to add patterns, somehow, as the other one we know about.
> >L--h
> >
> >
> Samuel K. Tennis, VISTA Research and Trading, Inc.
> 8103 Camino Real C-409 voice: 1(305) 273-1321
> S. Miami, FL 33143 fax: 1(305) 273-9164
> skt@xxxxxxxx http://www.gate.net/~skt
>
>
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