RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 4, 2013 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 6:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 4, 2013 at 6:13 pm)Mr Infidel Wrote: Water does not have a brain, and thus lacks reasoning capabilities.Having a brain does not mean that you have made a choice. I think water makes a good analogy, since we seem to have this idea that there can be influencing factors surrounding you, gently nudging you one way or another. Water seeks it's own level, follows the path of least resistance and if we understood those "influences" we're leveraging to excuse our inability to demonstrate a choice as resistance, our beliefs, and our beliefs about our choices about our beliefs (lulz) could very easily be described as a a drop of water following the path of least resistance. If that's enough to call something a choice..well, choices just became that much less impressive.
Quote:It means I, personally, have abandoned theism by choosing atheism.Which, to me, is about as close to a superpower as anything could get and still remain in the realm of what I would consider plausible. I mean, look, maybe you can do this- I haven't seen you do it, I haven't seen it explained very well, and I certainly haven't seen it argued very well.....but if you say you can do it so be it. I still can't.
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