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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vaclav Havel's Critique of the West
Divine in a purely metaphorical sense; words to live by, so to speak.

When we focus on the same set of ideas and come to different conclusions, I think it speaks to our underlying assumptions about the world, which can't be dictated by reason or logic. One feels X, and another feels Y. Like our materialist vs. non-materialist conversation the other day. This type of belief can't be shown to be true or untrue; we just pick a side based on some internal criteria, and it can dictate how we feel about many things.