(June 7, 2015 at 11:00 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: But what I'm driving at is this: we DO believe people all the time based upon our inclination to accept what people say at face value unless we have some reason to doubt them.
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To a certain extent, yes. However, tell me you saw a spaceship land yesterday and I would be reluctant to believe there was a spaceship, though I might believe that you think you saw one. Tell me you saw a dead man get up and walk. Again, I would, at face value, believe that you think you did. For me to believe in what you saw, not what you think you saw, I would have to see the spaceship and the dead man myself.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
