Posted: Mar 23, 2017 6:18 am
zulumoose wrote:Gustavoo what I understand from this is that basically you are saying accept what authority has told you, and you will be happy.
There are numerous problems with that.
1) Conflicting authorities telling different messages all over the place
2) Authority in the religious sense is baseless, none can demonstrate any truth on which their supposed authority is grounded.
3) It is plainly obvious that humans are very adept at fooling themselves and claiming to have found the truth when their truth conflicts with many other versions.
4) Caring about what is true is the basis of all real progress, and caring about truth means evaluating truth claims, which in turn means learning not to take seriously baseless assertions, which leaves religion without foundation.
In order to blindly accept authority you have to leave your critical thinking faculties behind, which leaves you open to any and all bullshit salespeople, of which there is an almost unlimited number. How happy this makes you is irrelevant in terms of truth evaluation since is it clearly demonstrated by conflicting cults that you can be just as happy believing any number of mutually exclusive concepts.
but why do you **impose** ( or shift burdon of proof ) other so called authorities on us ( The Hare Krishnas ) without explaining anything at all ?
and what explanation any so called authority has got ? kindly give me some solid, verifialbe and tangible explanation. so that we can see what is what.