Indoctrination

[Deesse23]

Not that you don't know what that means, but you seem to have no intellectual curiosity to find out on your own.

I don't care if my beliefs are true or not, just because I don't care what some Latin phrase means?

Q.E.D.
Another latin phrase the troll most probably does not care about

[The Grand Nudger]

The things you say don’t appear to be true according to you Ahri.

[Astreja]

Okay but does this explain how people who attend AA groups put their faith in a higher power of their choosing and it works out for them? The higher power is of their own choosing, it's not some pre-fabricated archetypal god such as Jesus, Vishnu, Odin etc.

It puts them into a positive mindset. The higher power is probably a creation of their own imagination, a beneficent "higher self" that prompts them to make necessary changes to their lives.

[Jehanne]

Okay but does this explain how people who attend AA groups put their faith in a higher power of their choosing and it works out for them? The higher power is of their own choosing, it's not some pre-fabricated archetypal god such as Jesus, Vishnu, Odin etc.

It puts them into a positive mindset. The higher power is probably a creation of their own imagination, a beneficent "higher self" that prompts them to make necessary changes to their lives.

I sometimes hear voices in my head, also.

[Fireball]

It puts them into a positive mindset.  The higher power is probably a creation of their own imagination, a beneficent "higher self" that prompts them to make necessary changes to their lives.

I sometimes hear voices in my head, also.

Me, too. A small, still voice, as it has been called. I also talk to myself. I was at a carving class and one of the other members commented about it. I said, "I just like to have an intelligent conversation". 

[Jehanne]

Lately, my voices have centered around debt management programs.

[Angrboda]

I hear voices in my head. Where else would I hear them?

[Simon Moon]

I don't care if my beliefs are true or not, just because I don't care what some Latin phrase means?

Also, true according to whom? You?

That's not the reason. But it is an indication that you don't care to find out.

You have demonstrated many times over, that you don't care.

So tell me this, what method do you use to determine true claims, grom false clams?

[Disagreeable]

Indoctrination - the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

I agree that accepting a set of beliefs uncritically is bad, and indoctrination is bad, but what about if we are talking about a single belief instead of a set of beliefs? Surely there is at least one belief we must accept uncritically. An axiom.

[Mister Agenda]

Why?

Believers often, knowingly, lack evidence for God's existence. So a lack of evidence isn't exclusive to atheists.

Perhaps being unsatisfied with believing something despite a lack of evidence is.

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Well there are different types of evidence. The evidence of a believer is faith-based evidence, meaning it's not empirical evidence, but still a valid form of evidence.

One of the things that tells us evidence of something is valid is whether it's persuasive to people who aren't already convinced of it.

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What if a person has an extra-sensory (beyond 5 senses) experience in a way that can be measured using scientific tools, would you consider that evidence for something supernatural?

If a person has psychic perceptions that can be tested and measured using scientific tools, I would consider that evidence for psychic perceptions. I'm not sure I could still consider that supernatural if science can detect and measure it.

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That's an easy one.  I'll flip a coin 100 times, recording the exact sequence of heads/tails.  You, via your extrasensory ability, email me the outcome (especially, in advance); we'll compare.

Yeah that's not at all how that works.

Yah, it would only work like that if it actually worked.