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Originally Posted by Chris T
Why are you asking me?! The outline popper posted from Wikipedia shows that memetics is a much deeper 'theory' than what you posted as your understanding of it.
I have no intention of defending memetics, I simply observe that based on the Wikipedia entry, there seems to be a lot more to it than you apparently thought.
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Well going by that wiki article, to me it seems I'm on the right track. A meme is an idea that can evolve, expand, and cease to exist etc.
I can see how religion can be seen as a meme, it's an idea, it fits with other likeminded people, so expands. Other religions come along, they fit better or are forced to fit, and the old religion gets forgotten, the death of a meme, and in it's place is the new one, which propergates and mutates as it goes.
Isn't that what happens with religion? A religion "fits" with someone, so they adopt it, and propergate it to their children etc, over time, due to the affect of other memes, for instance homosexuality and divorce being considered acceptable, it changes.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
I'm not certain how these questions are relevant to what I asked you.
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Faith in a human being is based on your actual experience of them, what you know there reaction to similar situations have been, not what you've been told their reaction would be.
For instance, if I were invovled in an accident, left with a broken leg and a complete stranger, if he said he was going to get help, I'd have hope he would, but I wouldn't have faith that he would.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
But if it is empirically measured and observed and documented, is it faith?
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Yes, of course it is.