Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god
On 01/08/2015 03:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes
us down the road of recognizing the danger latent in faith, which I
don't think the US is close to doing.
Exactly
On 01/08/2015 03:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes us
down the road of recognizing the danger latent in faith, which I don't
think the US is close to doing.
Exactly ... though it goes beyond just faith to any sort of
Re: clique preservation, I keep finding myself wondering if we're
shooting ourselves in the foot calling these acts terrorism and the
actors terrorists. It seems to me these are just criminals. If you
buy the Dawkins/Harris/Maher line about Islam being more violent than
other religions,
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 15:17 -0800, glen wrote:
If the US were really more focused on integration, then
wouldn't we treat people like this as criminals and not terrorists?
Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes us
down the road of recognizing the danger latent in
Glen writes:
(¬Falsifiable ↛ false)
(fantasy ≢ counterfactual)
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 15:47 -0600, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote:
Time, trial and error improves the operation of delusions.
[..]
So the ultimate goal of terrorism is not to kill all of it's critics
but to make as many as possible
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god
And the skeptical response:
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/can-science-prove-the-existence-
of-god-b6fefdc52588
Do you want or need your belief in a divine or supernatural origin to the
Universe to be based in something that could
The big issue Europe, and France in particular faces, is multiculturalism
vs cultural integration. The US is structured to favor the latter.
Europe the former.
The co-existence approach (multiculturalism) can in the worst of cases lead
to ghettos and isolation, leading to anger and hate.
I have
And the skeptical response:
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/can-science-prove-the-existence-of-god-b6fefdc52588
Do you want or need your belief in a divine or supernatural origin to
the Universe to be based in something that could be scientifically
disproven?
And so believers who
On 01/07/2015 12:22 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
And so believers who avoid this trap must construct an origins story
which cannot be falsifiable. It must be fantasy.
(¬Falsifiable ↛ false)
(fantasy ≢ counterfactual)
--
⇔ glen
