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**amelveEnromma** · 04-15-2011, 09:23 PM

it has become evident that we've crossed squarely into the realm of dogmatic doctrine, so I won't pursue that any farther.

How can confirming something for oneself be dogmatic doctrine? There's a world of difference between the two. If you want to entirely dismiss anything which can be established by ourselves through personal experience as "self-deception" and anything anyone else has to say as dogma, where are you going to start?

04-15-2011, 09:23 PM	#35
amelveEnromma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	it has become evident that we've crossed squarely into the realm of dogmatic doctrine, so I won't pursue that any farther. How can confirming something for oneself be dogmatic doctrine? There's a world of difference between the two. If you want to entirely dismiss anything which can be established by ourselves through personal experience as "self-deception" and anything anyone else has to say as dogma, where are you going to start?
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