My discriminating mind leading the way, I picked up a book called The Skeptical Tradition in consequence of the issues raised in my last blog, and read backwards to the Greeks and forward to Kant, from a reassuring essay on "The Implications of Hume's Skepticism." And I'm prepared to make my peace with Buddha upon the following terms. (1) Understanding that the ancient humans he was preaching to were far simpler and less scientific than I am. (2) While granting that the "discriminating mind" is in fact, as judge and preceptor, the source of endless error; yet, as a tool of perception and dispassionate analysis, it is the god-given light of the universe. (3) The reason given, apparently by Buddha himself, for not believing the "three errors" (belief in Destiny, belief in a Pancreator, belief in the Hegemony of Hazard), that "he who believes in them will be demotivated either to seek the good or eschew evil," are simply not applicable to one who, like me, believes that good is to be sought and evil eschewed, respectively, for their own sakes. By the way, I understand nothing of Kant's philosophy; I cannot make it make sense to me, however doggedly and bitterly I pursue the reading and the explication of it; I suspect actually that, like Freudianism and Hegelianism, it really doesn't make any kind of coherent sense, and is merely and purely, deliberately and fraudulently, obfuscatory blather.