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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 8:19 am
(November 4, 2016 at 3:24 am)Mathilda Wrote: OK Huggy let me explain the context of the brain scans.
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Understand now?
His emotionality and religiosity and obtuseness will repress his understanding even if intellectually he comes to understand (which he probably won't because he's dumb as shit)... so even if he did come to understand he'd deceive himself and deny it.
You're not going to get Huggy to admit he's wrong here in a million years.
You probably know that already though, hehe.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 8:23 am
(November 4, 2016 at 8:19 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: (November 4, 2016 at 3:24 am)Mathilda Wrote: OK Huggy let me explain the context of the brain scans.
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Understand now?
His emotionality and religiosity and obtuseness will repress his understanding even if intellectually he comes to understand (which he probably won't because he's dumb as shit)... so even if he did come to understand he'd deceive himself and deny it.
You're not going to get Huggy to admit he's wrong here in a million years.
You probably know that already though, hehe.
An inability to admit when you're mistaken is a true testament to your character.
For the particularly weak among us, admitting your're wrong is worse than actually being wrong.
Interesting.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 8:31 am
(November 4, 2016 at 8:23 am)operator Wrote: An inability to admit when you're mistaken is a true testament to your character.
Yes.
Quote:For the particularly weak among us, admitting your're wrong is worse than actually being wrong.
Yes.
Quote:Interesting.
No.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 9:56 am
The theist`s lack of knowledge of scripture is always disappointing. You expect it with scientific subjects but this should be home ground for them...
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 11:01 am
(November 4, 2016 at 8:23 am)operator Wrote: (November 4, 2016 at 8:19 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: His emotionality and religiosity and obtuseness will repress his understanding even if intellectually he comes to understand (which he probably won't because he's dumb as shit)... so even if he did come to understand he'd deceive himself and deny it.
You're not going to get Huggy to admit he's wrong here in a million years.
You probably know that already though, hehe.
An inability to admit when you're mistaken is a true testament to your character.
For the particularly weak among us, admitting your're wrong is worse than actually being wrong.
Interesting.
Agreed, but admitting wrong is a struggle for both theists and atheists, myself included especially.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 1:04 pm
(November 4, 2016 at 8:23 am)operator Wrote: An inability to admit when you're mistaken is a true testament to your character.
For the particularly weak among us, admitting your're wrong is worse than actually being wrong.
Interesting.
Interestingly, I've never met a theist who as ever admitted to me even that it is even possible that they are wrong about the existence of god, much less admitted that they actually were wrong.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 5:52 pm
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(November 4, 2016 at 11:01 am)Irrational Wrote: Agreed, but admitting wrong is a struggle for both theists and atheists, myself included especially.
Fair enough. I think it can be difficult at times for anyone to admit when they're wrong, but it's definitely a good life skill to learn. It's something I have sort of forced myself to learn as I've grown up because I come from a family where no one ever likes admitting they're wrong. And as I've gotten older, seeing my parents who are in their 40s and 50s and my grandparents who are in their 60s and 70s REFUSE to admit when they're mistaken is, quite honestly, sad. And I really don't want to be that 40 or 50 year old guy who's so stuck in his ways that he refuses to even learn anything new. That's just insane.
Failing to admit when you're mistaken is worse than being mistaken in my opinion.
(November 4, 2016 at 1:04 pm)Asmodee Wrote: Interestingly, I've never met a theist who as ever admitted to me even that it is even possible that they are wrong about the existence of god, much less admitted that they actually were wrong.
I can probably say the same. The theist usually never extends an olive branch yet always expects one to be extended in their direction.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 4, 2016 at 11:16 pm
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Meh, it's simple to do. Huggy, roll that beautiful bean footage.
I sometimes imagine that he might learn something by constantly admiring it....but then i remember that no amount of wishful thinkng on my part will make him anything other than what he is. A shameless liar for christ. It's not even an issue of admitting the possibility that he's wrong. You think he doesn't know, when he claims some ridiculous shit about natives not "needing antibiotics" for example..that he's wrong?
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 5, 2016 at 12:46 am
Haven't peeked in here since demanding supernatural evidence for the natural world. I don't suppose any has been forthcoming? Therefore I am withdrawing from your putative natural world, assuming a fetal position and staring into the abyss until further notice. That is all.
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RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 5, 2016 at 2:54 am
The very best thing about admitting that you're wrong: After you've done so, you can start being right.
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