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Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
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RE: Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
(November 27, 2020 at 5:18 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Meh, brainwashing isn't really a thing, people are active participants in their indoctrination.  

I do wonder what various and personal reasons related to thinking and observing you have for believing that a test should not be fair.  I don't care what magic book has to say on the issue or whether some imaginary themepark in the sky is a more fair place than this.  

What makes you think that an unfair test is testing anything at all about the people taking it?  Is the 5th grader with 2nd grade questions and 100% accurate answers better at the subject than the 5th grader with 10th grade questions and 80% accurate answers?  We could repeat the question with the same set of 5th grade questions for both 5th graders - but one kid has to dodge bullets while he takes the test..and the other, comfy in his chair with all the snacks and juice he needs.  I find it hard to believe that you've never taken a test in your life, and so couldn't observe that we standardize them exactly so that they're fair, but..also, so that they function as an actual test of who is better at a subject rather than who got the easiest set of questions or the more conducive circumstance.  

This isn't a question of whether you believe life to be unfair, or whether you believe that heaven will be fair.

I'll leave Winterhold settle this issue. It should be remarked, though, that the unfairness of life doesn't contradict the fairness of the test. An all-knowing and just deity tests people on what they can do, on decisions they consciously make. no matter how small and meaningless to us.

(November 28, 2020 at 3:26 pm)Apollo Wrote:
(November 22, 2020 at 2:24 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Sorry, still catching up here. Is @Klorophyll s argument: children believe in the supernatural, therefore god exists?

This is a very important question that needs an answer (preferably in yes/no format) so that I don’t have to read the whole thing.

No. This is not my argument.

The argument is merely probabilistic : patterns of telelogical thinking in children is more probably than not due to a designer.
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RE: Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god - by R00tKiT - November 28, 2020 at 3:57 pm

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