RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 20, 2021 at 6:38 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2021 at 7:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
He's probably referring to people who like to point out that our forum apologists are passive aggressive bullshitters to the core.
For example, look at the explosion of convo in the past few posts, all of it informed by and initiated by a manifestly false claim about what the five ways were and are in the tradition of classical philosophy. They seek to establish and describe nothing. They were a syncretic attempt to make christian belief acceptable to people who felt that another worldview had intellectual credibility that their superstitions lacked. That's it, that's all. That's all that was even attempted. It was about how their godman could be made to retroactively fit preconceived notions, not explaining our world or any first principles of it.
There's some divine simplicity for you. This shit isn't difficult or profound or wise or beautiful - it's a mercantile negotiation. It isn't that everyone who calls bullshit must get it wrong, or that other people just won't accept this or that, or even that other people are particularly argumentative - it's that the faithful refuse to accept having gotten something wrong as a product of their base irrationality. So they mound garbage on top of their garbage mound insulting anyone who deigns to point out that it's all garbage, crying victim as they casually denigrate others.
Yet another answer to the thread q. People tend to believe that if others were smarter or understood properly, they would agree with our beliefs. Therefore, if they don't, they are either dumb, or don't have a proper understanding, or [insert insult here]. It's a non sequitur, but it's how we think. More intimately, it's how we shield our cherished beliefs from their own, often vacuous, natures. The master answer to the question is that we're irrational because we can be. Because no law of the universe steps in to prevent irrationality from being or happening. Not in us, or in any other thing. It's a thing that we and everything else in the universe can do, and on the basis of that alone becomes a statistical inevitability.
For example, look at the explosion of convo in the past few posts, all of it informed by and initiated by a manifestly false claim about what the five ways were and are in the tradition of classical philosophy. They seek to establish and describe nothing. They were a syncretic attempt to make christian belief acceptable to people who felt that another worldview had intellectual credibility that their superstitions lacked. That's it, that's all. That's all that was even attempted. It was about how their godman could be made to retroactively fit preconceived notions, not explaining our world or any first principles of it.
There's some divine simplicity for you. This shit isn't difficult or profound or wise or beautiful - it's a mercantile negotiation. It isn't that everyone who calls bullshit must get it wrong, or that other people just won't accept this or that, or even that other people are particularly argumentative - it's that the faithful refuse to accept having gotten something wrong as a product of their base irrationality. So they mound garbage on top of their garbage mound insulting anyone who deigns to point out that it's all garbage, crying victim as they casually denigrate others.
Yet another answer to the thread q. People tend to believe that if others were smarter or understood properly, they would agree with our beliefs. Therefore, if they don't, they are either dumb, or don't have a proper understanding, or [insert insult here]. It's a non sequitur, but it's how we think. More intimately, it's how we shield our cherished beliefs from their own, often vacuous, natures. The master answer to the question is that we're irrational because we can be. Because no law of the universe steps in to prevent irrationality from being or happening. Not in us, or in any other thing. It's a thing that we and everything else in the universe can do, and on the basis of that alone becomes a statistical inevitability.
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