[Avodah] Was Lavan daft, dense or what?

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> However, beshe'as ma'aseh, it would seem that nevu'ah is an
> incontravertably real experience. This is how a number of rishonim
> explain Avraham's certainty that he was told by the RBSO to kill his
> son, despite it being more likely to come from the Satan or being out
> in the sun too long, or a dream of some other sort.

This statement was at the core of my argument. My conclusion, based of Lavan's 
story, is that even with such a most powerful experience, our biases can 
prevent us from accepting the consequences. When Lavan felt the nevuah, he 
knew it was unlike anything paganism offered. However, his innate bias, his 
innate subjectivity, cultivated through years of pagan existence, allowed him 
to dismiss the uniqueness of the situation. And so does every skeptic when 
seeing G"d's signature anywhere.

Bias, in other words, does prevent us from seeing the Truth.
-- 
Arie Folger
http://www.ariefolger.googlepages.com