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The mysteries of the human mind: cell phone videos and religiously-driven 'honor killings' in the same sentence. OR How the rationality of the science that surrounds people fails to penetrate irrational beliefs.
Monday, May 18, 2020 4:14 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Monday, May 18, 2020 4:55 PM
CAPTAINCRUNCH
... stay crunchy...
Monday, May 18, 2020 4:58 PM
Monday, May 18, 2020 7:34 PM
WISHIMAY
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:32 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:07 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:41 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Humans aren't logic machines, we work by pattern recognition.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: I made it extra long so people like you can get the point, just in case your mental faculties aren't working properly.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:06 AM
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: I've wasted my time reading whole books by Pinker. With his grandiose failure to find hard facts and his use of amorphous words, when all is said and done, Pinker might possibly be remembered in history as a small-time derailment of progress on any topic.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:50 PM
Quote:Predictably you'd write that. It is something about How Republican Minds Work. ... according to Pinker ... "But yes, I believe that appealing to supernatural forces, appealing to doctrines that only people [who] are born into a particular religion share or that they can't(?) be persuaded of, does go against progress."
Quote: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63626&p=2 But when it comes to religion, they ALL promise to be The ONE & ONLY REAL DEAL© (accept no substitutions!), with eternal damnation for everyone else. And I rankled at the idea that salvation could be so arbitrary as to condemn virtually the entire human race for the sin of being born in the wrong time, at the wrong place. As proposed by religions, salvation is a roulette wheel, except the chances of winning are infinitesimally small.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:12 PM
Quote:KIKI: I've wasted my time reading whole books by Pinker.
Quote: KIKI: With his grandiose failure to find hard facts and his use of amorphous words, when all is said and done, Pinker might possibly be remembered in history as a small-time derailment of progress on any topic. SECOND: Predictably you'd write that. It is something about How Republican Minds Work.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:KIKI: I've wasted my time reading whole books by Pinker. Unlike SECOND, who only knows this guy from a TED talk Quote: KIKI: With his grandiose failure to find hard facts and his use of amorphous words, when all is said and done, Pinker might possibly be remembered in history as a small-time derailment of progress on any topic. SECOND: Predictably you'd write that. It is something about How Republican Minds Work. Liar
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 7:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1KIKI: Quote:Predictably you'd write that. It is something about How Republican Minds Work. ... according to Pinker ... "But yes, I believe that appealing to supernatural forces, appealing to doctrines that only people [who] are born into a particular religion share or that they can't(?) be persuaded of, does go against progress." Hmm. I must not be a republican, because my objection to the historic arbitrariness of religion is similar to Pinker's, except mine is based on fairness while his is based on progress. Quote: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63626&p=2 But when it comes to religion, they ALL promise to be The ONE & ONLY REAL DEAL© (accept no substitutions!), with eternal damnation for everyone else. And I rankled at the idea that salvation could be so arbitrary as to condemn virtually the entire human race for the sin of being born in the wrong time, at the wrong place. As proposed by religions, salvation is a roulette wheel, except the chances of winning are infinitesimally small.
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