I have no problem with you saying religion is stupid. I'm not going to try to dictate what you should think. I was just curious as to why you seem to think someone must be non-religious to base their observations about the world on the scientific method (I may have this interpretation totally wrong, hence my asking about it). If you want to just belittle my question, that's fine, I guess it's to be expected. I'm just trying to understand your point of view.Darth Wong wrote:Gotta love the way people always try to twist any anti-religious comment into some kind of imagined persecution.
"Religion is stupid."
"Oh yeah? Who says I can't be stupid if I want to? Huh? YOU? Don't you oppress me!"
If you could make humanity believe one thing:
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Thinking about it, I would go with a variation of Wong's. Some schizophrenics sincerely believe God talks to them and I don't like loopholes. E.g. an acquaintance of mine had a husband who went into depression because God was lying to him.
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"Act first on confirmed facts and their logical consequences for the betterment of the human race, faith is a last resort."
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"Act first on confirmed facts and their logical consequences for the betterment of the human race, faith is a last resort."
I don't think that's what he was at all saying. I think he said nothing about the religious being able "to base their observations about the world on the scientific method", just that they don't apply this to their belief of God.NomAnor15 wrote:I was just curious as to why you seem to think someone must be non-religious to base their observations about the world on the scientific method (I may have this interpretation totally wrong, hence my asking about it).
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“Faith is both the prison and the open hand.”— Vienna Teng, "Augustine."
“Faith is both the prison and the open hand.”— Vienna Teng, "Augustine."
[Correction, and otherwise alteration]Haruko wrote:I don't think that's what he was at all saying. I think he said nothing about the matter of whether the religious are able "to base their observations about the world on the scientific method", just that they don't apply this to their belief of God, or whatever deity.NomAnor15 wrote:I was just curious as to why you seem to think someone must be non-religious to base their observations about the world on the scientific method (I may have this interpretation totally wrong, hence my asking about it).
If The Infinity Program were not a forum, it would be a pie-in-the-sky project.
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Ah, ok. See, that's the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you.
Ah, ok. See, that's the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you.
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Huh. That's less than 10 condoms per person. Though, assuming an even split between gender, that's almost 20 condoms per penis, so I certainly hope that would suffice for the three weeks they're there. -Alferd Packer
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