RE: Share your worldview?
February 6, 2018 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2018 at 4:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 6, 2018 at 4:43 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Okay 1% is a little strong, and I chose it arbitrarily. The DC universe example is even better than my lottery example. I am exactly as certain about the real DC universe as I am about any afterlife. (Hopefully that clarifies what I am saying here.) We are talking 0.00000X% with many more zeroes than shown.b-mine
I hope you realize that my pushing the agnostic position was an attempt to get a theist to reconsider his/her position, and not something that drives my consideration of possibilities when contemplating the afterlife.
Let me put it like this: Which is a more reasonable position? Certainty of heaven/hell or agnosticism?
Certainty would be the more reasonable position..but it's not always the most useful, as your explanation for offering agnosticsm in this regard, in bold, suggests. You negotiated with the truth, by way of nonexistent probabilities and math you have not done and cannot show, in order to sway a person with a contravening opinion to reconsider their own fanciful beliefs.
That act of negotiation is what lends fairy tales the patina of credibility required to persist as they are in the first place.
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