this article won’t change your mind - the facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs.
brilliant article in the atlantic by julie beck discussing the phenomena of cognitive dissonance and how it affects religious and political beliefs.
it includes some interesting thoughts on how social media has magnified the problem.. spoiler - she is not optimistic about the possibility of successfully reasoning with members of religious cults.. the article also has a link to the 45 minute audio version.. link....
This Article Won’t Change Your Mind - The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs
Brilliant article in The Atlantic by Julie Beck discussing the phenomena of cognitive dissonance and how it affects religious and political beliefs. It includes some interesting thoughts on how social media has magnified the problem.
Spoiler - She is not optimistic about the possibility of successfully reasoning with members of religious cults.
The article also has a link to the 45 minute audio version.
shalom,.
my mom's family is mostly jws.
during her second marriage, i attended the weekly meeting and sunday meetings (by my own choice) with a family in the very small town we lived, since my mom didn’t attend.
Please please tell me AGuest hasn't returned! Do you hear voices?
If you want to put your feet up on a Saturday just do it, don't preach about it.
hitchens has some provocative thoughts about where much of today's monotheist beliefs originated which came out of inarguable human ignorance and how potentially dangerous and redundant they are in this modren day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwihkm126bk.
Perry, Hitch made so much more sense with a drink than you ever have sober.
jeremiah 7:31 says, "they have built the high places of toʹpheth, which is in the valley of the son of hinʹnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something that i had not commanded and that had never even come into my heart.’".
according to this scripture it's unthinkable for jehovah to be pleased with child sacrifices.
but yet he sent his son to be killed as a sacrifice for all?.
A capricious deity propitiated by the sight of a broken and bleeding corpse.
The core of christianity is no different from every other ancient death-cult.
his city seems pretty dangerous especially since he has taken over and of course he just loves trump.
lol .
Snare - It's a subscription-only article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.
this is self explanatory.
please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.
The sexy you belong to in any of these religions directly affects their orthodoxy
That's a brilliant example of predictive texting.
Of course you are correct that the bible and the quran and the Hadith are appallingly bad guides to morality.
How many Muslim-majority countries can you name where minorities feel safe? How about women's rights? How many grant their population freedom of speech and of worship?
Despite its history Christianity has largely matured and become relatively harmless. When the occasional xtian nutter crosses a line the rest of christianity is very quick to condemn. We openly mock Westboro. The same cannot be said for Islam. It's like the slow kid in the class.
Some immigration from Muslim majority countries by individuals who wish to adopt western values of personal freedom and liberal democracy is fine. Mass immigration by those who see integration as sinful is a threat to the future of Europe.
it just suddenly occured to me today.... you know the jws always say about adams sin being passed on to his descendants that its like you have a bread pan with a dent in it and that every loaf of bread will then have a dent?
well that's fine for bread, cos your using the same pan.
but that's not how genetics work?.
It's a good question purrpurr.
I don't think the WT has ever defined what they actually mean when they say Adam became 'imperfect' or how it differs from 'perfection'.
How did he pass on 'imperfection' exactly?
They did state a long time ago that 'imperfection' can only be passed on by the man but I don't know if they ever revised that bit of nonsense.
his city seems pretty dangerous especially since he has taken over and of course he just loves trump.
lol .
Sadiq Khan came to office promising to do everything within his power to cut 'stop and search'.
The murder rate soared and then he told the police to 'stop and search'. Genius!
He gives the impression of somebody who cares primarily about his popularity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.
this is self explanatory.
please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.
Ironically Tony Blair cynically created the conditions that led to Brexit.
i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.
it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.
The body is the actuality and the soul is the potentiality - Brazil
What is a soul exactly, and how do you know?
This only took 4 pages to devolve into the standard “whats reality?” - Morpheus
Indeed! It's a way of looking profound while avoiding all burden of proof. I cannot count how many threads have been ruined by the same tedious sophistry.
Nobody can PROVE that we are not brains in a vat. So f***ing what?
