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Tao Stoic 217

"Master, this is Shu Ler, and he wants to tell you how he got to liberate himself and became a Free Think."

"I am pleased to hear about it."

"Well, sir, it all started when somebody called my religion a superstition. I objected to that, so he told me to try and define superstition, in contrast to religious belief. I thought it over for a long time and found that we ONLY call a system of beliefs either religious truth or superstition, on the force of a small or great number of adherents in our immediate environment. Thus the very same ideas can become promoted from superstition to religion, simply through the number of adherents adhered."

"You could have got that impression from Hobbes or Locke, what next?"

"Then I gained the insight that what one regards as true, as 'the' true religion, is only that what one had the fortune to be born in, i.e. brought up in, i.e. not a shred of REAL proof for truth whatsoever."

"Indeed, you understood, then, that when such basic different ideational systems exist, each being defended as true, one might as well think about factual proof instead of mere emphasis, hearsay, thus start with neither of them being true. Excellent Shu, I think you'll feel at home here, in our 'Church of the True Word'."


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Ven 2005-01-24