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mrnoodle · 11-02-2006, 12:57 PM

There are only so many questions that can be asked, yes. But the answers you receive are largely a matter of what you're willing to see. If you are determined at the outset that only certain answers will be acceptable to you, or that certain criteria in your own mind must be met -- regardless of their relationship to the actual truth of the matter -- you are 50% less likely to come to the right conclusion. (math isn't my strong point, but you know what I mean)

If I stare at a glass of water and demand that it transplant itself into my stomach in order for me to believe that it quenches thirst, how am I ever going to know for sure?

11-02-2006, 12:57 PM	#121
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	There are only so many questions that can be asked, yes. But the answers you receive are largely a matter of what you're willing to see. If you are determined at the outset that only certain answers will be acceptable to you, or that certain criteria in your own mind must be met -- regardless of their relationship to the actual truth of the matter -- you are 50% less likely to come to the right conclusion. (math isn't my strong point, but you know what I mean) If I stare at a glass of water and demand that it transplant itself into my stomach in order for me to believe that it quenches thirst, how am I ever going to know for sure? __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh