(September 27, 2018 at 10:24 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(September 26, 2018 at 8:13 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Either you have to show why the mathematical analogy doesn't apply or you have to admit your argument is nonsense.
The correct analogy considers one the largest number because it represents the highest degree of unity possible.
(September 27, 2018 at 10:19 am)Khemikal Wrote: Some of us don't have a belief that needs servicing or maintenance.
Yeah, its easier to never examine one's convictions.
I'm not sure what conviction of mine you think needs reexamining or hasn't been continuously reexamined, or how that comment is at all relevant to the quoted text.
Examining ones convictions and compartmentalization aren't the same things. You compartmentalize the dumb shit and assume there must be some explanation for dumb shit, somewhere. I note that it won't matter if there is, because it's still explaining dumb shit.
OFC there are reasons that the various authors of magic book said dumb shit. OFC some of the reasons that the various auithors of magic book said dumb shit is because the other authors of magic book also said dumb shit.
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