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How Irrational People Think
#11
RE: How Irrational People Think
(January 11, 2015 at 4:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(January 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Everything needs a cause.Oh except the thing they believe is the cause, that is an exception just coz.
No one has ever seriously made that argument. The true formulation is that 'nothing that comes into being does so apart from some cause. There are some interesting arguments against this premise, but your strawman is not one of them.
Liar!
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#12
RE: How Irrational People Think
Jesus Christ said remarriage following divorce is adultery

I am divorced and remarried and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior 100%, but I'm still banging wifey #2

I'M SAVED, PRAISE JESUS !!!!!
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#13
RE: How Irrational People Think
Book being of a unique style implies it's divine.
The book is of unique style.
Therefore it is divine.

Valid argument, but premise 1 is highly doubtful and is solely based due to the book stating it otherwise no one would ever think such a thing.

This is what that Islamic miracle comes down to.
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#14
RE: How Irrational People Think
My feelings about *fill in your fairy tale* are strong.
The stronger the feeling, the more real the object of the feeling.
Therefore, *fill in your fairy tale* must definitely be real.
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#15
RE: How Irrational People Think
Malachi 2:16 "For I hate divorce,” says the Lord . . .

I'm divorced

Jesus LOVES me !!!
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#16
RE: How Irrational People Think
There are 2.3 (or however many) billion Christians in the world.
2.3 billion people couldn't be wrong.
Therefore, the other 5.2 billion people in the world are wrong.
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D

Don't worry, my friend.  If this be the end, then so shall it be.
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#17
RE: How Irrational People Think
(January 11, 2015 at 3:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: 1. There are seashells found on mountains.
2. There is a book that mentions a worldwide flood.
3. Therefore, the book is reliable and true.

What else? Keep it a syllogism.

Death is the consequence of sin.
Jesus died having committed no sin.
... oh, bugger.



MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci

"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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#18
RE: How Irrational People Think
1. Religious belief is what makes people moral.

2. X has no religious belief.

3. X is therefore immoral.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#19
RE: How Irrational People Think
Some new scientific evidence has come forward that doesn't agree with my book... The evidence must be wrong, not my book.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane"  - sarcasm_only

"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable."
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#20
RE: How Irrational People Think
"You are accused of arranging for your wife to be murdered. How do you plead?"

"Not guilty."

"Can you prove you did not at some point contact someone to arrange for your wife's murder?"

"Erm.... No, but..."

"Guilty, case closed. Fetch my shotgun."
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