it is probable that somebody/something is utilizing your account to compose messages.
2. Notably, I don't need to believe in the probability above, to observe it as valid. — ProgrammingGodJordan
My username is JustSomeGuy, so it is probable that I am an adult male. But it's very possible that I could be an adolescent girl. As you read this comment, do you believe you are reading the comment of an adult male or of an adolescent girl?
It is also entirely possible that I am, in fact, an artificial intelligence. Do you believe that you are reading a comment written by a person, or that you are reading a comment written by an artificial intelligence?
Literally everything you "know" is based on belief, save for one single thing: that you exist.
Speaking disparagingly about the concept of belief shows serious ignorance. You are as blinded by your bias as the most fundamentalist young-Earth creationist. — JustSomeGuy
belief typically facilitates that people especially ignore evidence. — ProgrammingGodJordan
Are you really using flat-earthers as fodder for your argument that belief should be abolished? Try for some higher-hanging fruit; the stuff everyone in this thread has been offering. — Noble Dust
1. What "high hanging fruit" has been offered by the others? — ProgrammingGodJordan
1. As you are quite accustomed to belief, I see that it may be difficult to detach yourself from it — ProgrammingGodJordan
1. As you are quite accustomed to belief, I see that it may be difficult to detach yourself from it. — ProgrammingGodJordan
2. It may be somewhat odd to grasp, since you had probably been used to the concept of belief for quite some time.
3. In perhaps a short while, you may come to recognize that instead of belief, one may instead employ scientific thinking. — ProgrammingGodJordan
This is false. Belief involves a lack of sufficient evidence for knowledge. A lack of proof. And believe it or not (no pun intended)--even in science--proof is an extremely rare thing. — JustSomeGuy
Difficult, indeed. For all of us. In fact I may even venture to say it's impossible.
You never actually answered my question, though. Do you believe you are speaking to an adult male? Do you believe you are speaking to a human? — JustSomeGuy
Ah, we poor inferiors accustomed to belief. But that's the point, right? Yet we aren't believers enough to fall for this approach. I've seen this kind of thing on other forums. It's often someone who just knows that he is somehow a prophet on another level. His arrogance is so staggering that others can't help but be sucked in by the thread. It's like bad reality TV. You just can't change the channel. — dog
1. On the contrary, see scientific research, showing that belief generally permits ignorance of evidence.
3. So, it is indeed valid that belief generally occurs absent evidence/proof. — ProgrammingGodJordan
one may come to trivially observe that belief is a concept that contrasts science. — ProgrammingGodJordan
Purely out of curiosity, moderators, what exactly connotes "evangelism"? I have no interest in anyone being warned or banned; the more bullshit evangelism the merrier, per my view (hence my entertainment of this thread). But I've always been interested in this issue with regards to the guidelines, and this thread seems like a prime example of secular evangelism. Maybe I'm wrong? — Noble Dust
The condescension and self-assurance is such an outlier, such a relative novelty, that it's stimulating in some perverse way. Is this dude for real? This dude is for real. I know that some part of me is like that too. Which is scary. But such is life. — dog
I'm sorry, did you really just say "On the contrary" before restating what I said?
You claimed belief involved ignoring evidence. I corrected you by saying that belief involved a lack of sufficient evidence or proof, and your next comment is claiming my own sentiment (which was in opposition to yours) as your own?
And I see you're going to make me ask a third time: (I'll narrow it down even more to just one simple question) do you believe you are speaking to a human right now? — JustSomeGuy
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