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Joe Dees wrote:
<<Brodie's Level 3 begins there, then goes on to state that one
should choose in what to believe, regardless of its truth, based
upon its usefulness to oneself, and continue to believe it only so
long as it is useful. I have not achieved that ability to believe my
own lies when I know that what I'm telling to myself are
pragmatically chosen lies, nor do I wish to achieve such a
hypocritical condition. Once one begins lying to oneself, and
begins to accept that lying to oneself for selfish social, political or
economic reasons is OK, it becomes shamefully (or shamelessly)
easy to lie to others, a Nietszchean observation concerning a basic
principle underlying the proliferation of ridiculously irrational beliefs
and belief systems, literal christianity chief among them.>>
There are plenty of beliefs that are neither "truth" nor "lie." Many of
these can be broadly categorized as attitudes. Others are labels or
distinctions. Choosing not to believe a truth is rarely useful, but choosing
among attitudes and labels is immensely so.
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