A sword in a field.

[Rayaan]

That I want to fix the problem is your inference.

So, if you don't actually want to fix the problem (of confirmation bias) at all, then you shouldn't have called it a "problem." There is no need to fix it, so why it call it a problem?

What I am Rayaan is aware of my own bias, and cherry picking and yes, inconsistency. I strongly suspect we all have such things in our thought processes.

I think it goes beyond just bias, cherry picking, and inconsistency. You blatantly contradict your own statements. You display a strong level of doublethink which I find is not as much inconsistent as it is disingenuous. And I'm sorry if that offends you but that is what I am honestly starting to think of you now. Just to show you one example of that, in this post, you wrote that people should not turn to religion/God just because they want to fill a gap in their knowledge (see your quote below):

"You shouldn't turn to religion just because you think you've found a hole in science. You can't find God in the gaps between knowledge."

Yet, in a different post, in contradiction to the above, you said that you do that yourself:

"In the same way, many of my religious beliefs are crude and slightly misleading shorthands for things I don't understand."


A little too inconsistent for me to believe that.

If you have something you want to say, by all means come out and say it.

What am I doing then?

Popping up in every other thread with a charge of hypocrisy is becoming tiresome and it seems you are skirting something.

You must be blowing your load too quickly if this is becoming tiresome for you already. Hmm. Well, perhaps you should get some new batteries for yourself then.

And I'm not skirting anything. I've been saying exactly what I think of you.

What is it you think I am?

Poe?


Maybe other members know this already, but I noticed that your posts are full of self-deprecating comments. You say things like (though not exactly your words) "Yeah man, I agree with you, the bible is a huge problem for me," "I have confirmation bias about my religion," "I'm a cherry picker," "I'm inconsistent," "I don't know anything," "I depend on my religion as a comfort blanket/crack pipe/happy-moist-joy feelings," "I have cognitive dissonance," "Ignorance is bliss," and so and so forth ... always in the same self-deprecative manner ... and it seems that you do it on purpose and you're good at it. This has probably become a secret art form for you over the years. And you do it persistently.

And to me, it seems that you're using this kind of persistent self-deprecation as a clever, psychological tactic of making everyone else identify with you and empathize with you even though they disagree with you, while at the same time using it as an effective cloak for concealing your dishonesty. I think that's what you are doing in this forum, basically.