You wrote: "I (and you, and Robert Anton Wilson, for that matter) literally possess no ability to do without them if we're to get anywhere with anything. Every statement that anyone makes is dependent on them. It's not closed-minded to assent to that which cannot be escaped."
You may want to add this in some form to your list of dogmas. I think it qualifies as a dogma, perhaps even a meta-dogma if you will. And I respectfully disagree with it.
I choose to live in a universe which I acknowledge seems far stranger than my ability to comprehend it. Everything that I know about the universe is tenative and subject to revision. When I encounter new facts I revise my theories to fit the facts and not the other way around. I view my universe from multiple frameworks and perspectives many of which inherently contradict one another. I live with the contradictions. I don't let the lack of certainty in my life paralyze me. Instead I choose values and try to live within the framework of those values as best I can.
Dogmas provide a solid ground from which to act. I understand why you feel that you need them. I prefer to fly.
Thanks, Lorrraine
PS. How do you personally define the word dogma, anyway?
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Date: 2005-09-30 09:23 pm (UTC)You wrote: "I (and you, and Robert Anton Wilson, for that matter) literally possess no ability to do without them if we're to get anywhere with anything. Every statement that anyone makes is dependent on them. It's not closed-minded to assent to that which cannot be escaped."
You may want to add this in some form to your list of dogmas. I think it qualifies as a dogma, perhaps even a meta-dogma if you will. And I respectfully disagree with it.
I choose to live in a universe which I acknowledge seems far stranger than my ability to comprehend it. Everything that I know about the universe is tenative and subject to revision. When I encounter new facts I revise my theories to fit the facts and not the other way around. I view my universe from multiple frameworks and perspectives many of which inherently contradict one another. I live with the contradictions. I don't let the lack of certainty in my life paralyze me. Instead I choose values and try to live within the framework of those values as best I can.
Dogmas provide a solid ground from which to act. I understand why you feel that you need them. I prefer to fly.
Thanks,
Lorrraine
PS. How do you personally define the word dogma, anyway?