by Floyd Smoots » Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:15 pm
Jeff, you first. No you don't. You're far too well read and intelligent to let a little "dialect" get in the way of what you are reading. You "may" find it annoying (sorry), but I don't really believe that you find it that "difficult" to follow and understand at all. You must really skip over "sceneshifter's" posts something awful.<br><br>I AM saying exactly, "How do we 'know' what we KNOW?". You understood my question clearly. I can see your point about the "false dichotomy" because, ofttimes, as you say, between judgement and intuition, we become absolutely certain of a "fact".<br><br>My point is that sometimes, "what we believe as fact" is, IN FACT, almost absolute Truth. Sometimes, it ISN'T!<br><br>I feel that I have made a valid point about "whom" we believe, and WHY. Some of us hold the "Holy Bible" as truth, some of us disparage it as myth. Thus, my comment on "faith". Most of us USED to believe in the Mainstream Media becaused we were taught to buy it. Now, (I hope) most R.I.'ers know not to trust 95% of what they tell us.<br><br>Some of us "formerly ignorant" Americans voted for Bush, not Once, but TWICE, because we were totally fooled into thinking that he is a good guy who cares about ALL of us Americans, North, Central, and South. I'm very sorry that we were wrong. However, at the time that we voted, we believed that we knew the "truth" about his character.<br><br>I agree with your posit about things that "offend" our judgement. That's when we first become aware that something stinks like a rotting corpse, and we are forced to ferret it out like a homeowner looking for a dead mouse in the woodwork.<br><br>Dreams End, you next. I think you made a perfectly reasonable argument for your way of finding out the "real facts" in the best way you know. It appears to me to be a well thought out set of guidelines for testing what we are shown, told, or otherwise exposed to. (Dang, boyz, Ah jist luvs endin' uh sentense wif uh preposa.....prepositiiii.....uh, one o' them danged ol' thangs we wuz taught not to end uh sentens wif.<br><br>On a lighter note, I'd like to pass on a U.S. Southerner joke I heard on an old sitcom "Designing Women".<br><br>A Southern lady was invited to a fancy dinner party in New York City. She turned to the lady on her right and asked, "So where y'all from?". The highly offended guest replied, "From where I come, WE do not end our sentences with prepositions!". The Southern belle thought about the reply for a few seconds, then amended her question, "So where y'all from, BITCH!".<br><br>Made me laugh like a hyena when I first heard it. Hope it gives you gentle folk a grin or two. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>