People tend to assume that a 'miracle', much like beauty I suppose, is all in the eye (of faith - or *credulity!) of the particular beholder/'believer'...
...and since I've neither the time nor the inclination to argue or belabour the point just now, I'll simply let that interesting hypothesis/conundrum stand for the present...
But as One has well said, 'wisdom is known by her actions', and likewise, I'd suggest, is the actual **truth or falsehood of any particular 'proposition' confronting one during her or his earthly tenure.
Anyhow, with life experience and (hopefully) a better, keener sense of judgment with time - and moreover an intuitive, gut feeling/instinct for 'what passes the smell test', i.e. what carries the actual 'ring of truth' and credibility in one's life experience - most of us instinctively 'know' whether something is true or otherwise in our own particular lived experience...
To Be Continued...
*'credulousness:disposition to believe on insufficient evidence' according to the Chambers Concise Dictionary (Cambridge, 1988).
**For further investigation, I reckon you could do - far - worse than look up three of my earliest blogposts, entitled 'What is Truth?' (Parts One/Two/Three etcetera) upon my original blogsite, i.e. http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/).
...and since I've neither the time nor the inclination to argue or belabour the point just now, I'll simply let that interesting hypothesis/conundrum stand for the present...
But as One has well said, 'wisdom is known by her actions', and likewise, I'd suggest, is the actual **truth or falsehood of any particular 'proposition' confronting one during her or his earthly tenure.
Anyhow, with life experience and (hopefully) a better, keener sense of judgment with time - and moreover an intuitive, gut feeling/instinct for 'what passes the smell test', i.e. what carries the actual 'ring of truth' and credibility in one's life experience - most of us instinctively 'know' whether something is true or otherwise in our own particular lived experience...
To Be Continued...
*'credulousness:disposition to believe on insufficient evidence' according to the Chambers Concise Dictionary (Cambridge, 1988).
**For further investigation, I reckon you could do - far - worse than look up three of my earliest blogposts, entitled 'What is Truth?' (Parts One/Two/Three etcetera) upon my original blogsite, i.e. http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/).
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