[Buddha-l] Batchelor

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 17-3-2010 8:48, Weng-Fai Wong schreef:
> Joy wrote...
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>> Of course he has his beliefs, but who hasn't.
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> Bertrand Russell said that humans do not have a choice to choose between
> belief and non-belief; he only has a choice about what he believes in.
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> W.F. Wong
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Perhaps he was wrong. It is a matter of practical experience that you 
can doubt anything and subsequently investigate if it's true. There are 
also sceptics like Naagaarjuna who systematically doubt everything. 
Besides, religious belief is very different from practical belief. It is 
faith and not presumption. Someone who believes in God has a very 
different state of mind from someone who believes he sees a good friend 
in a crowd. Christians think that faith is universal, but it is quite 
rare in fact. Belief as presumption is a normal human quality.

erik