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Thursday, August 01, 2002 I'm Home! Hey all, I'm finally back! The flight home wasn't nearly as bad as the one on the way to Singapore--I slept better and had an engrossing science fiction series to read, so I was all good. :-) Orson Scott Card has some interesting things to say about faith (and no, he's not a Christian): "If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly," said Nafai. "But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow the Oversoul, I believe the Oversoul, beacuse I want to live in the world that the Oversoul has shown me." "Yes, Earth," said Moozh scornfully. "I don't mean a planet, I mean--I want to live in the reality that the Oversoul has shown me. In which lives have meaning and purpose. In which there's a plan worth following. In which death and suffering are not in vain because some good will come from them." "All you're saying is that you want to decieve yourself." "I'm saying that the story the Oversoul tells me fits all the facts I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly decieved, can also explain all those facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true--but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I'll choose the one that, if it's true, makes reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me--your life, your view of life--is the lie. And it is a lie. You don't even believe in it yourself." ^ Top | 3:19 PM | | | 
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