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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1316712" data-attributes="member: 7464">kininke: While that opinion is perfectly valid, I doubt it will have much impact on Mark Chance here unless you can argue it philosophically.  Mark: You have a problem with the statement "All beliefs are equally valid," correct? There is a problem whereby, logically, two contrasting beliefs cannot both be true. However, two contrasting beliefs can both be untrue. Following this train of thought, all beliefs can be equally valid if they are all untrue.  The only two paradigms that you seem to be able to accept rationally are then either 1) there is one, correct belief set or 2) There are no correct belief sets. Both of these scenarios seem to work, without internal contradictions. (This, of course, assumes that logic and reasoning are the correct tools to use. Remember, humanity came first, logic came later.) There might be a possibilty of constructing an argument for all belief systems being equally valid, and all of them containing elements of truth. Going even further, there might be a possibility of constructing an arguement for all belief systems containing separate, distinct truths. I don't have any such arguments prepared, however.</blockquote>