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Originally posted by TIO
Asaris, you're still simplifying things. Acting like I believe and wanting to believe won't make me really believe.
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Well, at this point, about all I can say is "Sure it will." Unless you can give me an account of how we come to have beliefs that doesn't reduce to "They just happen to us."
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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