...says the one who has managed to convince himself that the Turin Shroud is a bona fide relic of Jesus.
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John Platko wrote:such behavior is standard operating procedure for a well functioning heuristic trying to find the best fit for the available data.
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'.
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.
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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