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    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(January 7, 2022 at 8:17 pm)Ranjr Wrote: (January 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: excessive pride or self-confidence.  According to google dictonary.com says the same. So from that, I ...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 8, 2022 at 10:09 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(January 7, 2022 at 6:26 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Hubris is false pride.  It goes before destruction.  A haughty spirit before a fall. I generalize the answer to any emotion, and it's hard to narrow down to...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(January 7, 2022 at 1:52 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: In short, Hubris So like ego? i looked up that definition and i don't disagree but could you also say obsessive pride is sorta like their egos?
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(January 7, 2022 at 12:22 pm)brewer Wrote: (January 7, 2022 at 12:19 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: "Thinkers" makes it too selective? I'm not sure I have the word to describe what my thoughts on the ...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 7, 2022 at 12:40 pm
    Thread: Total locked in syndrome and assisted dying
Post: RE: Total locked in syndrome and assisted dying

Yes, I've read about this I'm in support of allowing those with incurable or painful conditions to choose whether or not they wish to stay alive.  However, for those who can't communicate even with th...
SlowCalculations Life Sciences 36 2078 January 7, 2022 at 12:36 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(January 7, 2022 at 12:12 pm)brewer Wrote: (January 7, 2022 at 12:02 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: If I left "Thinkers" out of the top sentence and just said what makes people "Irrational" would that...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 7, 2022 at 12:19 pm
    Thread: Putting it in my mouth
Post: RE: Putting it in my mouth

I eat and drinks the same thing every day on a very strict routine  After I'm done bitching about mundane problems I'll wake up and drink a cuppucchino with white chocolate on the top, this is also wh...
SlowCalculations Off Topic 1581 77641 January 7, 2022 at 12:13 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

If I left "Thinkers" out of the top sentence and just said what makes people "Irrational" would that have changed responses? It's a spelling question. Yes, i off track and don't stay on the same subj...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 January 7, 2022 at 12:02 pm
    Thread: Random Thoughts
Post: RE: Random Thoughts

If nobody perceives terms the same way then how do people know they're right? The answer to that is we don't. But, if we don't know how we are right then do we know the direction we are going? Some...
SlowCalculations Off Topic 10981 251744 December 14, 2021 at 1:53 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(December 11, 2021 at 11:09 pm)polymath257 Wrote: (December 11, 2021 at 10:57 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: Interesting, i had a teacher who once told me people are not born critical thinkers (I'm ...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 December 12, 2021 at 4:22 pm
    Thread: Too PC for me.
Post: RE: Too PC for me.

(October 1, 2021 at 10:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Do you ever hear things in the media that you just find annoying? For me - few things beat the PC use of genderless terms - when it' s completely unc...
SlowCalculations News & Current Affairs 256 14026 December 11, 2021 at 11:06 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(December 11, 2021 at 10:32 pm)Belacqua Wrote: (December 11, 2021 at 9:55 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: I like to think I will believe in god(s) if presented with empirical evidence. None such ha...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 December 11, 2021 at 10:57 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?

(December 11, 2021 at 8:57 pm)Belacqua Wrote: (December 11, 2021 at 5:35 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: I always doubted my own beliefs and it led me to atheism and rationality on its own. At this poi...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 December 11, 2021 at 10:52 pm
    Thread: Brace yourselves... Christmas is coming!
Post: RE: Brace yourselves... Christmas is coming!

(November 28, 2021 at 8:17 pm)T.J. Wrote: It's time for Christmas music, Christmas decorations, Christmas trees, and theists complaining that they can't say the word Christmas. It's the most wonderf...
SlowCalculations Off Topic 71 2907 December 11, 2021 at 5:57 pm
    Thread: What makes people irrational thinkers?
Post: What makes people irrational thinkers?

I have been thinking lately when it comes to how people become rational thinkers. It seems that some people are born questioning everything  and it never really goes away it may be repressed, but does...
SlowCalculations Atheism 228 18254 December 11, 2021 at 5:35 pm
    Thread: Spaghetti monster [craft]
Post: Spaghetti monster [craft]

https://imgur.com/a/zaHoYui   Hopefully, this link works.  I made this spaghetti monster and don't have anyone to show it to who wouldn't take it as insulting. I really loved making it despite not hav...
SlowCalculations The Arts 3 380 December 11, 2021 at 1:07 pm
    Thread: Deciphering gibberish?
Post: RE: Deciphering gibberish?

(December 6, 2021 at 1:22 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: (December 4, 2021 at 4:56 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote: I occasionally, shift back into having debates I understand debating is basically: Two people do...
SlowCalculations Atheism 23 2290 December 6, 2021 at 3:04 pm
    Thread: Deciphering gibberish?
Post: RE: Deciphering gibberish?

(December 5, 2021 at 1:19 pm)albatross Wrote: Is ignorance forever?  If ignorance means lack of knowledge then it need not be.  However if people reject increasing knowledge in favour of superstitio...
SlowCalculations Atheism 23 2290 December 6, 2021 at 10:05 am
    Thread: Can America ever truly pay for its sins?
Post: RE: Can America ever truly pay for its sins?

(December 4, 2021 at 7:42 pm)T.J. Wrote: When I mention sins I'm talking about the fact that hundreds of years ago the people who came to this country slaughtered the people who were here first and ...
SlowCalculations Politics 111 7436 December 5, 2021 at 11:59 am
    Thread: What's everyone up to right now?
Post: RE: What's everyone up to right now?

(September 13, 2013 at 5:41 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Me, I'm in the pub, hitting dem vodkas. Unusually for me, I had some unwelcome news yesterday and I'm still trying to process it and come up with a way...
SlowCalculations Lifestyle & Personal Matters 56467 3551756 December 5, 2021 at 11:52 am