Leaving Truth

If we define truth as justified beliefs, then it is clearly redundant. If we define truth as something different, perhaps as unjustified beliefs, then we are leaving the definition open to an arbitrary range of indefensible claims. Calling this a knowledge selection procedure KSP , he states that it must meet these three conditions: It must function to separate proposals into those that are justified and those that are not, 2. It must select at most one of various logically exclusive proposals, and 3.

It has to be feasible to apply As an example he presents his own KSP as a hierarchy of five rules based primarily on on-demand repeatable physical observation, his own observations, and reliable testimony offered in good faith by an unbiased expert.

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He challenges us to write our own KSP and to improve on his if we are unwilling to adopt his. There is no reason to present specific proposals until both parties can agree on some clear governing KSP.

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Equipped with our KSP statements, the dialogue can then proceed with careful statements in the form of: With untethered faith no longer presenting a challenge to reason, he goes on to dismiss theist dogma. This he believes will help clear the way for humans to face and better solve the grand challenges such as poverty, famine, war, violent conflict, and other miseries, that have persisted throughout humanity. This rather short book often resorts to erudite language and difficult logic to defend its thought provoking thesis.

I look forward to seeing a more accessible treatment of the core thesis that would promote wider acceptance and application of these ideas. Jan 30, Jimagn rated it it was amazing. The author clearly spells out a logical flaw in Western thinking. The challenge for the reader is to comprehend the flaw and accept it as such, the flaw being such an inherent part of our thinking and culture.

The writing is a bit confrontational, though mixed with good humor. Sewell and Epicurus would have had some grand discussions! The human race needs to grow up and embrace science and logic and leave behind flawed thinking and the vestiges of our evolution that may lead to our own extinctio The author clearly spells out a logical flaw in Western thinking. The human race needs to grow up and embrace science and logic and leave behind flawed thinking and the vestiges of our evolution that may lead to our own extinction.

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Sun Jul 29 More than 35, people cross the bridge from Venezuela into Colombia every day. Many return daily, but around 4, people stay in the border city, Cucuta, or move further into Colombia or to neighbouring countries. People sell and buy items at the market near the bridge so they can take money and goods to their families in Venezuela.

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Simon Bolivar Bridge, Colombia. His wife, who is pregnant, is in Venezuela. He said he is earning money to buy diapers in Colombia to bring home. With no work available in Venezuela, she crosses the border almost daily to come to Colombia to sell coffee and baked goods. With two other women, she cooks meals in the kitchen of a small rented room for people living on the streets in the area. Today she is homeless in Cucuta. She spends her days collecting plastic bottles and other recyclable materials to earn money to buy food. She relies on the money she can raise and the kindness of other Venezuelans and Colombians in Cucuta.

While these concrete abuses are the most immediately recognizable, there are other more subtle ways that we believe Siddha Yoga abuses its followers.

Critical thinking and questioning is punished by banishment from the community. We believe that induction into this masochistic state of submission is the universal harm done to Siddha Yoga followers.

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Sexual abuse, illegal activities and other forms of harmful exploitation are just some of the concrete manifestations of this demand for submission to the control of the guru and her group. S ome ask, isn't all the wrongdoing in the past, and haven't those who did wrong in the past left Siddha Yoga? The answers, respectively, are no, and no. Even if it were the case that Siddha Yoga had "cleaned up its act," the retrospective falsification of Siddha Yoga's history has been undertaken systematically by its leaders, and this is a wrongdoing happening now.