exactly, truth is an abstract, belief is that you think you know it and faith is forming beliefs upon the memes you have received from external sources.
The problem is that belief immunises you from conflicting memes
Is level 3 a suspension of belief ?
(I'm going off this idea of levels rapidly, it's a multidimensional hill, levels only propogate them and us memes, instead of a joy in the variance of life)
--craig
joe dees wrote:
> At Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:44:53 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >At 11:05 PM 2/9/99 +0000, Craig Dolan-Betney wrote:
> >>Would it not be better to say that truth is a(n imaginary) perfect
> >>representation
> >
> >What would make a representation perfect?
>
> To be an exact duplicate of the presentation. Such a similacrum belongs in the realm of abstract ideality, not concrete reality, where approximation is perfusive. It would also be perfectly useless as a navigational aid to the territory; one might as well explore the territory as decipher the map (since they'd be equivalent).
> >David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
> >Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/
> >Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
> >
> >
> >
> Joe E. Dees
> Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
>
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