Faith vs Skepticism - Why faith?

What if these are all "branes"?What if there really is a multiverse, containing all imaginable worlds. These "domains", being imaginary, are by definition imaginable aren't they? So what if they really exist?The fact that some claim we are imagining and creating them while others claim they imagine and create us is relevant here. It has the sort of symmetry we have learned to expect from a TOE. The question of how such alternative realities could affect us is also very revealing. All the information we have indicates such cross-universe effects would be very subtle and difficult to detect. This corresponds to our experience when we try find evidence for higher realities and divine manifestations and such.Let's consider the possibility that thoughts, like gravity, are composed of joined loops that wander freely from brane to brane. This would explain why we so often forget or lose track of our intentions, direction or hmm, you know, could someone remind me where I was going with this?Oh! I remember now! What if believing stuff in this world really could make it true in the next one? Then by carefully choosing what to believe about them, we could shape them into the sort of beings who would believe the sort of stuff about us that we would like to trickle back over and eventually become true in our own world.No wait, that wasn't it at all. Oh well, it will come back to me.

Hi Buz, sorry to bug you but I just went through the last 4 pages or so of threads you have been in and I'm still not finding one that seems to be about this archaeology? And the wiki isn't telling me anything that seems to be real useful in this context either. I would use the site search engine but it isn't working for me right now.So could you link me to something informative about this stuff? I'm interested because you seem to be saying that there's something about these sites that is consistent with miracles or supernatural intervention or something, not just people living there or "sojourning" there or whatever, drowning there, for example.In short, how does this evidence differ from evidence that a place like Troy really did exist and actually fell at the time appointed by the gods of Olympus & Hades?

No fair! You firmly agree with the idea of realms outside the observed universe (other branes) in the pseudo-science threads. But in the pseudo-skepticism threads you deny the possibility of any such thing? This seems to get more to the heart of it. It's no fair positing such a concept without very sound non-philosophical reasons for wanting it to be there. Have I got that right?Fine. But the cat's out of the bag now, there apparently are such domains. Seeing as how they are there, they are available for anyone to use, not just the people who found them first.

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Message 14The database glitch has boggled the connection between the first post and the rest of them, but there really only seem to be about 12 posts that I can't get at. All the stuff you want from Lysimachus and your guests is essentially intact.Edited by Iblis, : AbE