To gain better knowledge is to use your critical thinking, not your ego. Ego is quite anti the way we gain knowledge
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The ego's prime directive is first survival and then expansion, not knowledge or truth.
Heraclitus
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May 12, 2018
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Knowledge is what can get survival more chance and have a better outcome. Ego would kill themselves and with the deluded mind would think it is great.
Ego is needed to defend any belief, even justified beliefs. However, beliefs that are acquired without critical thinking are likely to be incorrect, and to be defended to avoid embarrassment rather than to substantiate what's true.
mordant
Level 8
May 12, 2018
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Belief is way too many flaws. Let talk about knowledge, let see what is the difference between knowledge and believe.
@4w4r3n355 As a skeptic I do not afford belief to the unsubstantiated. Because supernatural beings and realms are not only unsubstantiated, but unsubstantiatABLE, I do not afford belief to them. For the same reason, no supportable knowledge claim for OR against the existence of such things can be made.
Belief is a judgement about what is most likely to be true about a thing where there is a paucity of knowledge and understanding concerning it. As such, I agree that knowledge (the more objective or at least intersubjective, the better) is far better than belief. On the other hand, belief is adequate for inconsequential matters.
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