Posted by KC Elbows on March 25, 2003 at 16:21:01:
In Reply to: Re: Who has tried to ask? posted by ? on March 25, 2003 at 16:08:02:
'Worship? I don't ever recall stating anything of the sort. If your guys would stop putting ten times more words in our mouths than we say things probably wouldn't be so stupid on this sight. But then again thats the only way you can win arguments is by restating what someone says with your own words and rhetoric.'
I didn't put words in your mouth. I followed your words to their logical conclusion.
You believe Kim can jump off of 11 story buildings on purpose using a nebulous process you call kyung gong sul bope. You have no reason to believe this. That's why you believe and do not know. Belief, not being the province of reason, is generally associated with faith, and thus religion. You believe that this miracle is truth, based on only a blurb from the blue lit, the website, and what others have told you. By believing in this, and believing it is a miracle, you personify a Kim with numinous attributes he may or may not have. This is also known as worship.
Now, if you did not personify a Kim with numinous attributes he may not have, that would mean that you gave creedence to your own reason over blue lit, the website, and the words of others, which means you would make your judgements on reality based on truth, which means that you would not accept the 11 story fall as truth without proof that you do not have.
Now, either you do not believe in the 11 story fall until you have proof and are just a martial artist, or you believe and are part of a small religious sect based around the miracles of Kim, which we shall heretofore refer to as a cult. Since you already told me you believe, then why hide your convictions? You believe in the miracles of Kim. Miraculous demonstations are merely demonstrations imbued with the nature of miracles, i.e. divine attributes. Since you believe in these miracles, you give worship to the source of them, Kim, by virtue of that very belief.
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