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   From: Threewolves@shaw.ca   
      
   Felings and experiences can mislead you rapidly.  I'm not much of an   
   > empiricist, except to say that experiences are all we've got to start   
   with,   
   > so when they're confirmed and reconfirmed, we might as well accept them as   
   > real -- as long as we're aware they might be wrong and are willing to   
   change   
   > our theories when new evidence is presented.   
   >   
      
   Yes, this is true, however how you are doing this is what is at question.   
   The white race   
   is way to in their heads. We think and rationalize everything. The mind was   
   only ment to   
   recieve information. You know the chair is real because you feel yourself   
   sitting in it. Then   
   you have a body knowing that if you sit in that chair you will in fact sit   
   in it. The mind surrounds the body   
   and is an electromagnetic thought space. From this space the physical body   
   is created. All knowledge is   
   imprinted into the body. When you know something and you can do it   
   autonamicaly, it is a body knowing   
   of how to perform that function. Everyone has Emotional, physical, mental,   
   spiritual and sexual ways of being.   
   It is one of the ways we experience the world. To be in balance we could   
   learn to give with the emotions,   
   Hold with the physical body, recieve with the mind, determim through spirit,   
   and catalize with our   
   sexual energy. Many of us, especially those of us in the west try to   
   determin with the mind. Often   
   this throws us into pretense. Where as the body knows. The gut will never   
   lie.   
      
      
   > This is probably a chair I'm sitting in (assuming I'm sitting... assuming   
   I   
   > am... but now we're just getting pedantic).  It fits all the definitions   
   of   
   > what a "chair" does.  I perceive it.  Strangers, who haven't been informed   
   > of the presence of the chair, perceive it as well.  Within the limitations   
   > of language, we can ascertain we're both perceiving an object that has the   
   > same appearance.  So we might as well say the chair exists.  But it may   
   not.   
   > So in one tiny corner of my mind, I keep open the possibility that it   
   might   
   > not.  If repeated evidence demonstrated the chair didn't exist, I'd be   
   > willing to change my belief that it does and would have to find another   
   > explanation for why I can sit in it and walk into it.   
   >   
   > Does this qualify as "knowledge"?   
   >   
   > Well, that's a longer ramble than is my wont.  I'll be going now.   
   >   
   > Nova   
   >   
   >   
      
   Well, considering the chair is mostely empty space, you are lucky you sat in   
   it at all. lol.   
   When we form a beliefe system we are allways lost. If you can think of   
   everything from   
   eight different perspectives you are on your way go digging yourself out of   
   your box. Believe   
   everything, believe nothing, then find out what works.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)