Religion leads us to confusion. if too much reasoning also leads us to confusion..?

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Permalink Reply by Sonny Mobley on February 25, 2010 at 2:39pm

Too much reasoning leads to confusion? No way. Not if you keep trucking through it. I hear people whining about conversations about definitions and semantics and I think that's lame.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Thompson on February 25, 2010 at 3:50pm

If you use words with no specific goal then it is all too likely that your words will serve no purpose.

One problem that people face is that they begin with a conclusion and then they set about finding the set of arguments which supports their conclusion. If you proceed in this backward fashion and doggedly refuse to accept that your predetermined conclusion is false then, yes, you will remain confused.

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Permalink Reply by Strgaze5 on February 25, 2010 at 4:18pm

Really well put, Tom

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on February 25, 2010 at 4:06pm

All you need to do to understand the confusion spawned by religion is to read their source materials. The bible is such a mass of contradictions that it astonishes me that any believer can see straight. Will admit not to have read the Qu'ran, but, judging from the frequent intolerance between the Sunni and the Shi'a, it can't be much different.

I HAVE read the Mahabharata (MUCH abridged) and most of the Bhagavad Gita and will confess to some bias (having been trained as an Associate Teacher of the TM Technique). I rather enjoy both for the stories told, if nothing else, but the variations of interpretations of the Gita can span day and night and have room to spare.

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Permalink Reply by amer muhammad on April 25, 2010 at 10:34pm

If you are mentioning AN, its the case of too causal reasoning. commenting what first came in your mind. Derailing the orignal discussion. I had seen many wonderful discussions die as a result.

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on April 26, 2010 at 12:07am

Does too much vision lead to blindness?

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Permalink Reply by amer muhammad on April 26, 2010 at 12:28am

Anything that is too much is bad.

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