RE: The most important reason anyone is a atheist
November 18, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2013 at 3:15 pm by Cyberman.)
The whole point of the box, since I brought it up, is to illustrate that a person making guesses - even intuitional ones - about what may be inside it is in no better position than anyone else throwing out guesses. You might say it contains chocolate; I say it contains the planet Callufrax. Which of us is correct? Doesn't matter, because all opinions are equally valid and equally useless without independant verification, ie opening the box and looking.
Unfortunately for Rico, physically investigating a phenomenon in this way is called - science.
Sitting on your arse and guessing about the nature of the Universe, however you want to dress it up as philosophy or intuition, gets you nowhere if you won't bother to check how it compares to that reality. Neither will complaining that reality doesn't match up to the expectations of your guesswork. Because even if your guesses turn out to be right, you still had no justified reason to know that. You merely happened to be accurate.
Unfortunately for Rico, physically investigating a phenomenon in this way is called - science.
Sitting on your arse and guessing about the nature of the Universe, however you want to dress it up as philosophy or intuition, gets you nowhere if you won't bother to check how it compares to that reality. Neither will complaining that reality doesn't match up to the expectations of your guesswork. Because even if your guesses turn out to be right, you still had no justified reason to know that. You merely happened to be accurate.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
