I think you open a semantic whirlpool with that one, Don.

It is one thing to be totally able to tolerate mystery, and quite another to assert that it is essential to spirituality. I think knowing in the highest sense of the word (not spitting data back, but knowing is what God does and what any spiritual being is capable of.

Certainty is a kind of faith in itself, which does not need data or information or justification.

None of this has anything to do with bashing opponents with information and being dumped back with counter-data.

But having ways to acquire answers is a million times more important tha having some past set of answers! :>)

If I met the Buddha on the road, I'd hang out with him. Not to borrow his answers, but just to feel what he felt like.

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