Posted by believer on February 08, 19101 at 22:47:10:
In Reply to: Re: God posted by Daniel on February 08, 19101 at 15:37:41:
: If faith is what we should use to decide what to believe in, why don't we accept everything we here based on faith? Of course it can't be proven that a war is the solution to our problems; we must have faith! What makes God the only thing in this world that we believe in because it requires faith?
>> reason may sometimes be useful for trivial things, or scientific or mathematical truths-- but EXISTENTIAL truths, the things you really care about, have to be approached with something more than just Rand's dry "reason"-- it has to be approached with individual experience. You may love certain people in your life-- do you need to rationally prove it? Does a father need to sit down with you and create a logical sylogism about why he loves his kids? The great sin of philosophy is that it is notoriously superfical and irrelvant to real life. Most of the emotional problems a person goes through cannot be solved with mere logic, but with a search for meaning involving not only reason, but the "heart's reasons which reason does not know"
But with Objectivists, who know it all, they are more than ready and prepared to tell you what should be most important to you, what decisions you should make when approaching the universe.
Ultimately, they are far more dogmatic than any religious person.