From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:51:10 +0000, LH wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2005.06.08.05.12.55.958844@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:13:12 +0000, LH wrote:   
   >>   
   >> If that were the case, microbes wouldn't hurt us, and radiation not give   
   >> us cancer.   
   >>   
   >> Both are imperceptible to us, and therefore could not form part of our   
   >> belief systems (until they were discovered, of course), and yet they still   
   >> affected us.   
   >>   
   >> I believe you won't have a plausible explanation for that, am I right?   
   >   
   > You are tricky.  :-) Part of being in the physical universe is accepting the   
   > laws associated with it.  While on a conscious level of awareness you may   
   > not know about such things as microbes or radiation, on a superconscious   
   > level you are aware of them.  You accepted their existence before your   
   > visit.  A better question would be, what belief about yourself do you hold   
   > that got you into the experience of microbes or radiation in the first   
   > place?   
      
   If you are alive, you will experience (and rely on) the microbes in your   
   gut.   
      
   It seems to me that you are using a definition of "believe" rather   
   different to the usual one.   
      
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