Arrogation

I don’t find you arrogant but I do see you are committed to your beliefs.

I am commmitt3ed to my faith. Mere belief can accept fantasy. That's the distinction of faith and belief. Read the 1th chapter of Hebrews. Faith is based upon evidence and substance. Fantasy is not.

If there was evidence and substance, then faith would be unnecessary.

If one knows something then one doesn't need to believe it.

Belief in the unknown necessitates fantasy.

Yes "arrogate", is simply defined, but nonetheless burdened by that simplicity.

Justification is whatever justification might be...Which might not be the same to one as it is to another.

I also find once I start to argue a side, I often become more invested with that side.

And so the error of jumping to a conclusion can compound.

All true, imo, but for the first sentence. "If there was evidence and substance" is a non-factor as an if/then because, even by faith, as well as potentially belief, there is some evidence and substance to go on. It may be slim, but there's enough.

Good point.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Well yes, slim evidence and substance necessitates faith or belief.

But even though the bus has turned up everyday at 3pm for the past week, there is still now way of knowing that it will turn up today.

All that one can actually do is stand and wait and generate fantasies.

What builds the conviction of things not seen or the assurance of things hoped for?

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Is that another brain freeze you are experiencing?

Granted that any scheduled event can be delayed or cancelled any day and time, but the more I can depend on self-sufficiency, the better personal planning becomes personal accomplishment. Short of dying for cause, though unplanned, my family and I survive with current supplies in the house for about five years, completely off grid if necessary. That comes by ambition, planning and execution, same as my investment goals accomplishment.

Acquired and stored data, which is not necessarily factual.

Yes, such were the ambitions and necessities of the character who was honed and became Fauxlaw....Or Fauxlaw as I know them.

My modus was somewhat similar but also somewhat more haphazard by comparison...Perhaps honed by British society.

I certainly do not have 5 years of supplies to sustain me if things do go sour, which is certainly looking more of a threat these days.

Though if the severity of social decline becomes so catastrophic, I'm not sure how much difference forward planning would make.

I suppose that off grid, is more about remoteness and inaccessibility, which in the UK is not really achievable. Nonetheless in this day and age one is never completely hidden from view.

Why is there so much negativity coming from you. Britain still has a king.

Oh, I'm quite positive really, content with my little lot as it currently is, financially secure, due to retire fully in two months, fit and planning some long distance walks, and also planning on moving to the coast...At rapidly approaching 66, what could possibly go wrong?

Yep, it's a big list.

But here goes, fingers crossed.

Happy retirement. Stay healthy.

 I'm not sure how much difference forward planning would make.

Perhaps in your case, in the UK, being "remote" is not so much of a possibility, but I know for a fact that "remote" is a present, achievable condition, just as I am. I live at 7,500 feet elevation in the middle of a Rocky Mountain forest where I cannot even see my few neighbors, though I know they are there. "Remote" is descriptive of our condition, and that was part of my planning and execution. Let's just say I'm not very concerned that a disruptive street riot is in my future since I cannot see the road from my house. The road is barely paved and has no gutter. Seems you don't know me as well as you think you've pegged me.

Well, I don't know you at all, nor anyone else who uses DebateCraft for that matter.

Just pointing out that "off grid" in a country one fortieth of the size of the USA, where the highest point is only 4400 feet is not really achievable.

One can be slightly more remote I suppose...Scotland is probably the best bet for remoteness.

And roads here are in varying states of repair, and certainly on minor Welsh roads there is no such thing as a gutter. In fact I'm not sure that gutters feature at all in British road design.

But gutter talk is very colloquial to all those countries .

Yes channels or ditches known as gutters was where effluent went.

Latterly underground sewage management systems were established.

So gutter talk, is basically talking sh*t.

Do they choke more and have to pause to get the words out giving them that British accent.

Nope, that's the Welsh accent...All phlegm and spitting.

Finally we have an explanation for their accent. Thanks.