Musings upon our reality

Okay, here's one I don't understand...

Pretty much every online shopping site has a number of sorting options, including one for "Price- High To Low". I'm wondering who picks that one. Are there really people out there thinking "What is the most expensive item I can find?"

 

Faith being the substance of things hoped for and the prove of things unseen(par).

Observable things don’t require much faith, but some of the scientific theories that are obstensively deduced are actually induced. Leads me to this thought- if you can’t observe the “ Big Bang” for instance and there is no way gather all of the knowledge and understanding required to draw a true conclusion; is much of what passes for science not actually a religious docturne? Even man’s religion unto himself?

 

Exactly.

 

One key distinction to the above is that you cannot legitimately say you "believe in science". Example: Do you believe in a total eclipse of the sun? At one time, it was a profound mystery. Science is a system of inquiry, discovery, and method, that has a point of departure centered around a hypothesis(an idea/thought). A hypothesis could semantically be considered a belief, but that is where the similarity ends. People of 'religious faith' to do not say they "believe in a theory of their God". They accept without evidence. No scientist worth their weight excepts the validity of a hypothesis or declares it 'truth' without proper evidence. Does the scientific community often take themselves too seriously? Absolutely. Does the religious community do the same? Absolutely.

 

yeah, I’ve wondered that too. I guess if you’re looking for
CZECH & SPEAKE
that might help.

 

I use that sorting option sometimes. It's nice for things like razor blades when you're trying to order a hundred pack, or in cases where the search spits out a lot of accessory items that I know I don't want.

 

I believe in Newtonian physics. I have faith the sun will rise tomorrow.

 

Never fails... It's always in the last place we search!

 

Art and Mahatma present an interesting one here. For instance, to say "Today is Wednesday"(at this writing, anyway), who would ridicule and violently oppose THAT?

 

They may have been speaking of marginally larger human issues than what day it happens to be.

 

Right, Chris....a rather flimsy offering from me on that one. Probably those "truths" that lead to serious discussion.

 

Is the NFL real?

 

I use that feature to reinforce my normalcy and confirmation biases.

 

10/4 Yeah it's not a feature I use often or ever really.

 

As for truths being "self-evident", Martin Luther King Jr. said it should be "self -evident that all men are created equal." Could Roger Goodell(whose brother was a 3rd-grade classmate of mine by the way)substitute "all men" with "the rules for all NFL games"?

 

I believe Thomas Jefferson said it a few years before MLK.

 

perhaps you're right...I do hope King gave credit to the 3rd POTUS.

 

And he was paraphrasing John Locke.

 

Ambient Bass