| Looks like I am the one that has to eat crow on this one. I have been on too many discusion boards with pagens and mistook your broader usage of the word meta-physical. So here I have been thinking that you missed something very obvious when it was actually my fault. I apologize for the error.
Therefore I mistook the entire point of that post as asking me to justify having a metaphysical structure for handling things that cannot be measured. Quite a different arguement, no wonder neither of us could make sense of the other.
Let me try to answer the original question and start over.
Basicly, if a concept is not amendable to reason I do not think anyone has the right to force the concept on another. Force is regretably a physical action and under certain situations like force must be applied. But the existence/non-existence of a deity is not, and therefore you are welcome to alter your actions if you wish to, but I recognize no right of your to impose your belief or non-belief of a deity on my actions. If you want to bury your dead because it causes sickness to leave them in the open that is just fine I may help you, but if you want to throw them in the well because bubba the deforester says so in the book of jive, I am going to object and maybe shoot you if it is my well.
Does this analogy give you any insight on my guidelines, or have we missed a common communication again? |