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Thinking that there are different learning styles probably helps poor teachers develop better content though.
They are good drivers.
At the risk of upsetting people, most if not all religions. They can't all be right.
I think that a lot of Atheists oversimplify religion. (NB: I'm Atheist myself.)
"True" and "false" only apply to statements about reality (epistemic). And sure, religion has a lot of them: "God exists", "if you fornicate you'll go to Hell", "the world was created in seven days" etc. I think that most of them are false.
However a religion isn't just its epistemic statements. It's also morals, practices/rituals, and a community. Those things cannot be true or false, because they are not statements about reality. You need another ground to refer to them, as "good" vs. "bad" (deontic).
Yeah, but atheism does not mean nihilism. It doesn't even mean opposing religions in general. It simply means you do not believe in a higher (or multiple) being often referred to as "god".
Do I believe in the power of love? Yes! Do I spiritually put my family and friends over anything else? Yes! Do I believe that I need to help people, even though it is not beneficial for me? Yes! Do I believe that placebo works? Yes! ...
I'm aware - and that's part of my reasoning.
Atheism itself isn't even a whole set of epistemic statements. It's lack of belief in one statement. It doesn't imply any sort set of values (like nihilism, secular humanism, satanism... or even the ones from the religions), nor give you any practice (no mass, no "it's Salah time, drop what you're doing for a prayer"), nor it makes you part of a community (much more than "we don't believe in centaurs, we should hang around togerther" would).
And Atheists often transpose that into religion, oversimplifying it into "you believe in one or more gods". But religion was never just that, it's a lot more things. And most of those things can be good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, but not true or false.
haha it depends, for religious people their credence is everything in their life, is their true. Of course I am with development of reason and science, but, as Adorno said once, if you retire a system of credence from people who have not known something more than religion, their entire life loose all its content... that's why I also learned to be more shy to argue about others people religious feelings, believings, because it is something very respected and symbolized. Also, Hegel said that religious thought is like a "phase" of "society thought", a phase that has be to analized and lived by every person (and lived by the society itself)...
Yea I more or less agree with that sentiment. I myself am an athiest but I view religion in general as a coping mechanism, and real or not if you take away coping mechanisms then you risk doing actual harm to people(psychologically), which is why I try to be as anti-evangelical and secular as I can. I just wish people would stop using it as justification for the shitty things they do. I wouldn't mind more people thinking like I do but they have to come to that conclusion on their own.
That you own your PC
That humans use 10% of our brains. We use 100%. Intelligence is correlated with the type of brain matter present.
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Religions/God
Well thats's up yo personal belief more so than anything. We can't really prove nor disprove deities, so we can't really argue either side of that debate fully.
well no, its not an equal position. we have 0 evidence of the existence of a god. we have a lot of evidence that there is no need for a god.
otherwise somebody could claim that santa claus is possible ebcause it wasnt disproven. you cant disprove things that dont exist.
Well I honestly see no reason to try and disprove religions. Some of them do have fucked traditions, yes, but trying to invalidated one's faith is just sad.
As for the Santa part, I can't really argue against that. But for my own sake I'm going to keep pretending he's real, as that's more comforting that the thought of a crackhead breaking into my house and stealing nothing but cookies.
There is a huge different between “god doesn’t exist” and “proven there is no need for a god.”
Depending who you ask, there is plenty of evidence. And you don’t even need to ask the Ken Ham’s of the world—there’s literally dedicated fields of study in philosophy arguing this.
The whole “one bad apple spoils the bunch” comes from a series Descartes’ essays trying to figure out if God can be real.
Plus, everyday people have experiences that they interpret as religious events. Coincidence, whatever, that could apply—you can’t, with 100% certainty prove them wrong. You can only assume based off the information you have and your preconceived notions of the world.
Religion is complicated. People’s faith makes it even moreso.
Evidence don't change based on "who you ask".
Yes it does. That’s why eyewitness testimony is rocky at best and is rarely counted as hard evidence. This is especially true the further back the witness has to recall to get the memory.
You also have to ask multiple experts to agree on something before anything with evidence gains weight, but evidence looks different to experts too. That’s why almost everything has some form of division.
Me: "There is a big pile of gold buried under my house."
Real Estate Agent: "That sounds... unlikely?"
Me: "Well thats's up yo personal belief more so than anything. We can't really prove nor disprove deities, so we can't really argue either side of that debate fully."
this, is a bit sad that it always comes down to this.... its really not how logic works we determine if things are possible based on evidence. Not the lack of evidence... you can never prove something that doesnt exist, doesnt..
Logic is used in the court of law and it’s completely reliant on evidence missing to prove innocence.
Hence, “there is zero evidence that the defendant was in the location at the time of the crime which proves their innocence.”
Adding: I mean, the biggest evidence some people have is that something can’t come from nothing. We have no proof of where our something started or came from (for all we know it’s a game of marbles), so their theory is just as valid as anyone else’s until proven otherwise.
That ivermectin is a hazardous medicine..
It's actually donated by Merck since 1970's to African countries to fight river-blindness! The safety profile is well established and it's safe. https://mectizan.org/
The problem was that people were taking the variation that was not specifically for humans.
The Russiagate https://jacobin.com/2020/04/russiagate-christopher-steele-dossier-trump-election
edit: all the people being mad and downvoting just goes to underscore that once people internalize nonsense, no amount of evidence will change their minds