October 5, 2002

Lookin' at You http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/eye.htm Do you get creeped out by pictures of eyes that look at you? On the other hand, you probably have little difficulty looking into the eyes of a loved one. Some people make little eye contact, particularly anxious types.  Do all these things simply have to do with the amount of -trust- we have in the person looking at us? I admit, I don't trust an unknown eye peering at me, and when I see a picture like the one in the link my first reaction is repulsion, though later I can reason myself into trusting a computer screen. At least this eye looks away (but it follows you, ack! That's another issue.) 11:14:12 PM    comment []

"Inner Knowing" to Justify the Bible http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29091 Actually, I selected this article mainly because it covers several interesting issues of faith, and gives some interesting statistics about what the clergy believes. But the core contention of this article, while not new, brings up an interesting question: How much of what we believe is simply based on an "inner knowing"? I believe the question that needs to follow that is: How reliable is our "inner knowing"? The writer believes that this inner knowing is God-given and when honestly uncovered is very reliable. However, both the subjectivity of this -- different people seem to come up with contradictory things -- and the problem of how exactly to be "honest" with oneself to reliably uncover the inner knowing of ethical and spiritual material leads me to question this approach. But is "objectivity", the logical alternative, truly any more reliable if it exists at all? 11:33:39 AM    comment []