Why do Christians become Christians?

[Pat Mustard]

Confirmation bias doesn't make your memory better roadrunner, it makes it worse. And that is exactly what you describe here to "help" improve your memory, taking the bits you are prejudiced into feeling are right as true and discarding the ones that conflict your worldview. We "remember" episodes which agree with our worldview much better and with more frequency than we remember episodes which conflicts with it, and from you post you've fallen right into that trap.

Oh and if you've never inserted a whole false memory into your life, then you are abolutely unique in human history and should submit yourself for testing. However I'm going to say that this statement is another case of you fooling yourself due to a lack of understanding of your brain's fallibility.

I find that those that don't fit, stand out more.   And could you elaborate more on what you mean, by inserting a whole false memory.   I take this to mean, something which in no way resembles the reality of the experience (not just minor details).   How did you come to this conclusion?

I would just like to understand the principle being put forth in this view.... I don't see a way, in which it doesn't self destruct or result in special pleading.   Anything and everything, can be questioned, if we can simply dismiss testimony as stories, when our "confirmation bias" is rejecting a differing worldview.

Roadrunner, go back and read the thread from the point I quoted you up to my post, paying particular attention to your responses to Rhythm's thought experiment. Your posts are an ample demonstration if the problem I was talking about in my post. You have an unreliable memory (don't worry, we all do), but instead of acknowleding it properly and working with the limitations, you have convinced yourself that you have conquered the limitations, when all you've done is selected memories on the basis of their confirmation of your prejudices (now this is where yiu should worry).

My principle wrt personal memories is that they are inherently fallible, and unless we have independent confirmatory evidence of their accuracy they should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism.