(March 5, 2014 at 6:37 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Choosing the path of belief then. That certainly makes more sense, send is broadly compatible with Pascals Wager.
Having enjoyed both an atheist and theist selection of literature I do see in both (although the theists are much worse) a tendency to take the worse, most simplistic and weakest arguments of the other to attack. If one was exposed to only one its easy to see how one could choose to deny oneself evidence to support either position.
I dunno... it seems sort of strange to me to think of someone believing solely on negative attributes like that. That's not really choosing a belief so much as it is restricting the amount of information you have with which to derive your beliefs. By sealing yourself in an echo chamber like that you might be able to influence your beliefs, but does manipulating the environment around your beliefs really count as an active choice?
Is ignorance of other paths the same as choosing the one you're on?
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