...says the one who has managed to convince himself that the Turin Shroud is a bona fide relic of Jesus.
What am I?
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Re: What am I?
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by Matthew Shute » Apr 22, 2015 10:03 am
...says the one who has managed to convince himself that the Turin Shroud is a bona fide relic of Jesus.
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Re: What am I?
#42 by John Platko » May 15, 2015 3:39 pm
You're not quite telling the whole story there.
And there's nothing wrong with changing beliefs one way or the other as one tries to sus out truth - such behavior is standard operating procedure for a well functioning heuristic trying to find the best fit for the available data.
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Re: What am I?
#43 by Cito di Pense » May 15, 2015 6:49 pm
John Platko wrote:such behavior is standard operating procedure for a well functioning heuristic trying to find the best fit for the available data.
What do you need to know in order to determine the quality of the 'fit'? How much it hurts when you extract it from your asshole?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you answered 'yes'.
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Re: What am I?
#44 by laklak » May 15, 2015 6:50 pm
If it don't fit, force it. That's what my cell mate used to say.
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Re: What am I?
#45 by John Platko » May 16, 2015 2:53 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:John Platko wrote:such behavior is standard operating procedure for a well functioning heuristic trying to find the best fit for the available data.
What do you need to know in order to determine the quality of the 'fit'? How much it hurts when you extract it from your asshole?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you answered 'yes'.
I find it best to extract what must be extracted no matter the pain as the alternative is a constipated brain.
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Re: What am I?
#46 by Oldskeptic » May 19, 2015 12:31 am
Mac_Guffin wrote:I guess I'm technically an atheist according to some people I talked to here in another thread, but I feel like if I am an atheist, I am not an atheist in the same way I used to be before my liberal postmodern Christian phase. I also think that calling myself an atheist is misleading because I have some vague spiritual, irrational tendencies.
Being an atheist does not require rationality, in fact, from quite a few demonstrations, it seems completely optional.
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Re: What am I?
#47 by John Platko » May 20, 2015 7:48 pm
Oldskeptic wrote:Mac_Guffin wrote:I guess I'm technically an atheist according to some people I talked to here in another thread, but I feel like if I am an atheist, I am not an atheist in the same way I used to be before my liberal postmodern Christian phase. I also think that calling myself an atheist is misleading because I have some vague spiritual, irrational tendencies.
Being an atheist does not require rationality, in fact, from quite a few demonstrations, it seems completely optional.
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