RE: Dealing with Death as an Atheist
May 11, 2015 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2015 at 10:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 10, 2015 at 1:18 am)Cephus Wrote:-of course they had information that demonstrated it was unreasonable............nevertheless, people will still get away with all manner of irrational shit.(May 9, 2015 at 6:17 pm)wallym Wrote: Do you really think it was irrational for the people 1000's of years ago to believe the world was flat?
A modern example is Free will. Most people believe in free will. It looks like it's probably not real. I don't think people living their lives like free will is real are irrational. They are just mistaken about a premise on which they are basing their conclusions.
Do you understand the distinction I'm trying to make between faulty premises and being irrational?
No, but 1000 years ago they had no information that demonstrated it was unreasonable. Today, that is not the case. A person 1000 years ago might have gotten away with all manner of irrational positions. They cannot get away with it today. There is a difference.
(people often imagine that our ancestors were drooling idiots incapable of making the same observations - with their damned eyes- that we are capable of making today...lol, it's infuriating...people.... 1000's of years ago...so far as we can tell, -did not- think that the world was flat. You'll find flat earth stories to be an aberration, globally and temporally, if you go off looking.)
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