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Religious belief/disbelief pill
#21
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill
That pill should be a suppository. Theists need it shoved up their asses.
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#22
RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill
You do understand that 'indoctrination' is apart of every social philosophical teaching on the planet, past present and future... The passing on of ideal, tradition, culture is all a form of indoctrination! Even the position of tolerance, and acceptance is considered a 'doctrine' as it has governing rules, and to teach it is to indoctrinate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/indoctrinate

So know it or not like it or not we are all products of indoctrination. So all the crap you said about pills and forcing it down our throughs.. Already happened. The only question is did you keep it down, or can you fashion your own pill?
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RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill
(March 15, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Drich Wrote: You do understand that 'indoctrination' is apart of every social philosophical teaching on the planet, past present and future... The passing on of ideal, tradition, culture is all a form of indoctrination! Even the position of tolerance, and acceptance is considered a 'doctrine' as it has governing rules, and to teach it is to indoctrinate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/indoctrinate

So know it or not like it or not we are all products of indoctrination. So all the crap you said about pills and forcing it down our throughs.. Already happened. The only question is did you keep it down, or can you fashion your own pill?
That's true. Thinking

The ideal would be to indoctrinate people with a "show me" attitude. As I recall, Richard Feynman said his father taught him to never trust experts and always think for himself.

But you are right that indoctrination is inevitable. We need to indoctrinate with skepticism.
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RE: Religious belief/disbelief pill
(March 16, 2015 at 8:56 am)watchamadoodle Wrote:
(March 15, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Drich Wrote: You do understand that 'indoctrination' is apart of every social philosophical teaching on the planet, past present and future... The passing on of ideal, tradition, culture is all a form of indoctrination! Even the position of tolerance, and acceptance is considered a 'doctrine' as it has governing rules, and to teach it is to indoctrinate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/indoctrinate

So know it or not like it or not we are all products of indoctrination. So all the crap you said about pills and forcing it down our throughs.. Already happened. The only question is did you keep it down, or can you fashion your own pill?
That's true. Thinking

The ideal would be to indoctrinate people with a "show me" attitude. As I recall, Richard Feynman said his father taught him to never trust experts and always think for himself.

But you are right that indoctrination is inevitable. We need to indoctrinate with skepticism.

The problem with that is, if one does not have the tools or the wherewithall to work their way out of a skeptics dilema, then you create a soceity with a large population of people afraid to commit to anything. Which leaves it vurnable to a soceity of passionate 'believers' to rule as they see fit.

Like it or not, it is the balance between the passionate believers and the doubters that keep soceity in the middle of the road.
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