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How Irrational People Think
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RE: How Irrational People Think
(January 18, 2015 at 11:34 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote:
(January 11, 2015 at 5:33 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Book being of a unique style implies it's divine.
The book is of unique style.
Therefore it is divine.

Valid argument, but premise 1 is highly doubtful and is solely based due to the book stating it otherwise no one would ever think such a thing.

This is what that Islamic miracle comes down to.

Am I stupid, or this sentence doesn't make sense ? I really tried to understand it, my brain hurts now.

No one would conclude a book with a certain style of writing implies that it was divinely inspired if if they had not been told so (by the book itself, apparently.
1. Some communists killed a lot of people.
2. Therefore, people who believe in redistributing wealth, the primary tenant of communism, will be mass murderers.
2. Therefore, people who don't believe in god, who are not necessarily communists, will be mass murderers.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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#42
RE: How Irrational People Think
(January 18, 2015 at 3:53 pm)Darkstar Wrote:
(January 18, 2015 at 11:34 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: Am I stupid, or this sentence doesn't make sense ? I really tried to understand it, my brain hurts now.

No one would conclude a book with a certain style of writing implies that it was divinely inspired if if they had not been told so (by the book itself, apparently.

There's a William Faulkner joke in there, somewhere. I'm sure of it.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
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