RE: 3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)
July 1, 2014 at 12:33 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2014 at 12:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 30, 2014 at 11:39 pm)Lek Wrote: I didn't say I think you possess the "truth".Yes, you did, those are the full implications of your statement about the evidence of a persons life and it's relationship to truth. This is precisely what I'm attempting to explain to you.
Quote: I was referring to a hypothetical situation. I don't know enough about you to know if you would fit the situation or not.You don't have to know anything about me, that's the beauty of a hypothetical situation (but it's telling that the only way for you to square the circle, mentally, is to think that maybe my life isn't so good, that it doesn't fit the pattern you would accept. It does, I assure you). Let me try and make this as simple as possible. Your line of reasoning would allow -if there were an atheist and a theist who both had equally "good" lives- for two mutually exclusive propositions to be true simultaneously. That is what makes this sort of reasoning useless, irrational. Even if you plugged in "true data" you could not be sure that you would get a "true" conclusion.
Quote: You did explain why you thought I was irrational, but I didn't think your reasons were well-supported and I said why. I guess the readers can decide for themselves.Or I can explain it again, and ask you what you think. As above.
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