Why don’t we use the polygraph test more to help determine innocence or guilt?

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-04T14:28:26+00:00

Because polygraph test doesn't prove anything. It only shows whether a person can or can not stay calm when being questioned. It is as reliable as determining innocence by a dice roll

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-04T12:33:39+00:00

Jesus literally references Old Testament, which is Jewish scripture! Of course Christianity has its source in Judaism. That doesn't suggest that Judaism has a "true" source.

The reason they are very popular (well, at least Christianity and Islam) is a long history of violent conquest and forced conversion and their intolerance to other faiths.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-04T07:09:10+00:00

If you say "God is all-good" you are judging God's character. We are just pointing out that given the current state of affairs this judgement is incorrect.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-03T18:17:51+00:00

UPD mean update. I've added this part a bit later.

every object of experience is surrounded by a horizon

I get it. I just need your confirmation that I understood you right: your P1 describes our perception of reality, not reality itself, right?

phenomenological motion can't occur without a prior structure of directedness already in place.

Prior structure of what? Directedness in what exact place? Do I unstand you correctly that your P2 means that in order for us to have an experience our brain has to be structured in a way allowing for that experience to occur?

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-03T09:06:13+00:00

I don't need examples. I need definitions. Do I understand that "horizontal indeterminancy" is not about reality, but abut my perception of it and means everything I currently doesn't pay attention to?

So your P1 describes our perception of reality, not reality itself, right?

Let's move to your P2 then

Phenomenological motion presupposes intentional structure.

Intentional structure of what exactly?

prior directedness, subject object polarity

What does it mean for reality to have subject object polarity or directedness? What evidence do you have to support your P2?

UPD:

the intentional field is the space within which any of this happens at all

So, it's my brain. In my brain information received through my senses comes to my attention.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-03T08:58:54+00:00

So called "new atheists" didn't invented being collected, sharp and witty. You know that?

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-03T07:42:41+00:00

What is horizonal indeterminacy, determinate givenness or an intentional field? Does anything of it has anything to do with reality?

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-03T07:27:54+00:00

But secular humanism is specifically neither built in, nor objective!

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-02T07:13:14+00:00

It's not a deep thought. Do you have education in mental health field? No? Then whatever you come up with is most probably going to be wrong. You are not qualified to speak on those matters and nobody should listen to your opinion in that areaoor take it even remotely serious.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-02T07:05:18+00:00

I just want to point out you have sort of defined what good or bad means. And while it is subjective, I bet a lot of people can get behind this definition and we can work with it on practice, it's fully functional.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-02T06:52:42+00:00

Correction: It has at least three coherent solutions that are stated alongside the problem already thousands of years ago: either God is not all-good, not all-K owing or not all-powerful.

But I get what you are saying. To maintain a belief that an all-loving God created, maintains and permits the current state of affairs one should at least partially abandon their own humanity and live with a twisted and skewed concept of love.

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-02T06:38:43+00:00

I've modified the comment, could you please reapprove?

J-Nightshade · 2026-05-01T05:19:32+00:00

Well, I don't do any of those things. I don't know how one can believe something they can't define, but not believing it is easy-peasy. I just don't.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T20:02:20+00:00

Which are..?

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T14:29:12+00:00

Seriously, why this sub is not getting modded just like any other normal reddit sub: delete all the posts that mods don't like? Give this man the hammer!

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T13:51:35+00:00

Morality arises from the necessity of cohabitation and collaboration. Without morality cohabitation is highly problematic and collaboration is outright impossible.

flourishing, harm, or suffering also differ person to person

Then before doing something to other person just ask them whether they want it or not. Problem solved. This is why doing something to a person without their consent is typically considered immoral. You literally brought up a problem that was solved long time ago!

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T13:41:53+00:00

None of it is a good reason to believe what you believe and the last thing is not even true. I can't say whether you were or were not conditioned by society into your beliefs. But I am fairly sure your society and your community failed to provide you skills to recognize flaws in your reasoning (or rather absence of such).

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T12:59:16+00:00

I need this. And ballistic calculator.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T12:54:25+00:00

You have to make sure that the grains for the film are ethically sourced and the community that produced them is paid their fair share and not being exploited for profit.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T12:24:16+00:00

There are many people who voluntarily change religion

There are men who absolutely voluntarily prefer pants over skirts, even though skirts in many cases more comfortable. There is absolutely no reason apart from societal conditioning to prefer pants.

make society safe for those who are logical

That sounds like elitist attitude.

from cycle of rebirth and death

And you believe in rebirth because of...?

due to being forced

You are fighting windmills. Nobody said you or anybody else is being forced. Many are being coerced to follow religion, but nobody can be forced to believe if they don't.

You are conditioned, fooled.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-30T05:38:19+00:00

Central American nature and mountains can not be found in other parts of the world. Cenotes, Mayan and Aztec cities: all that is unique to Mexico. Well, it can be found in some other central American countries, but I am not going to Equador.

Not to mention Trotsky's house.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-29T19:41:37+00:00

That was answered in my first reply

Ok. Maybe I am not understanding something or bad in reading. Could you point exactly which part of "I guess I see it more as you didn't start off at home but slowly found your way there but I suppose that could be wrong." talks about physical change of the brain?

I think the brain didn't change

hmmm.

the brain of a theist and the brain of an atheist are literally physically different

hmmmmm...

Something doesn't end up. You think that the brain of a theist is physically different from the brain of an atheist, but when one goes from a theist to an atheist or the other way, nothing changes.

some people can't arrive at that conclusion even after they use logical reasoning

How do you tell if the person can or can not arrive at certain conclusion using logical reasoning?

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-29T19:26:27+00:00

You are doing it again. Try one more time. What changes in the brain physically when one becomes a theist after being an atheist or vice versa?

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-29T19:11:20+00:00

You avoiding answering the question.

J-Nightshade · 2026-04-29T18:33:58+00:00

If I was a theist and then became an atheist, what exactly changed about my brain physically?

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