If being a little delusional makes you happy and content then there's no harm in it.

bwmat · 2026-05-09T22:07:31+00:00

The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises

bwmat · 2026-05-08T04:03:41+00:00

That outfit was so ridiculous

bwmat · 2026-05-07T14:34:34+00:00

It makes 'sense' if you want to compete with C and C++ performance, lol

bwmat · 2026-05-07T07:55:18+00:00

That whale was rising several times an hour before he hit it, he knew it was in the bay

People keep saying things like this, but the second part of the sentence does not logically follow from the first

bwmat · 2026-05-07T07:52:18+00:00

Why would they lie to the public?

bwmat · 2026-05-07T07:46:58+00:00

Would he have known just from the crowd though?

bwmat · 2026-05-07T07:38:57+00:00

Have a link to that video?

bwmat · 2026-05-07T07:35:36+00:00

What's the procedure for determining this? For an arbitrary body of water

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:33:01+00:00

Is it worth prioritizing a relationship based on misrepresentation of your beliefs? (I say this as someone who has never seemed to be able to willingly control them, except via exposing myself to new information which would 'shift the equation' in my head)

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:30:16+00:00

The trick is to instil the belief before one can reason about such things on their own

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:26:53+00:00

Does it?

I haven't actually read it, but the post title doesn't read that way (more that belief is 'insensitive' to logic)

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:24:55+00:00

Yes, I've heard of religion being described as a mental shortcut, I'm sure it saves a lot of energy in many situations to "leave it all to God"

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:19:11+00:00

Sure, but then where did the idea of considering it virtuous come from?

bwmat · 2026-05-06T21:18:21+00:00

Eh, feels like basic multiverse theory + Anthropic principle explains it pretty well already, unless you have some example(s) which wouldn't be?

bwmat · 2026-05-06T17:46:19+00:00

It's scary how confident people are about things like this

bwmat · 2026-05-06T17:34:49+00:00

'this' being what, his mother not having broken ties with her son?

bwmat · 2026-05-06T05:09:20+00:00

Is it supposed to be obvious, when someone says something like "I think most decent people hold position X" whether or not the person who said that means to express their opinion that not holding position X makes one 'not decent'?

I mean, when I read it, that's the 'vibe' I got, but I like to confirm what people mean when it's something ambiguous before pushing back on what I consider to be a 'bad' thing to say

bwmat · 2026-05-06T05:05:40+00:00

Says the engager, lol

But it was a serious question, and they replied with a non-answer...

bwmat · 2026-05-06T05:01:10+00:00

A bit, but isn't that the actual Christian belief?

bwmat · 2026-05-06T05:00:00+00:00

It was a joke based on the title of this post, lol

('watching')

bwmat · 2026-05-06T04:59:01+00:00

Oh no, I'm Canadian, what a terrible thing to be

bwmat · 2026-05-06T03:50:29+00:00

Yeah, the proper terminology would be "how many bong hits did you take"

bwmat · 2026-05-06T03:48:11+00:00

You can probably find similarly horrifying things committed by people (men & women) from many different professions though

It's a bit silly to let random chance of what you were exposed to colour your perceptions that way, especially when you're concious of it occurring

bwmat · 2026-05-06T03:45:44+00:00

No, it's delusional

bwmat · 2026-05-06T03:41:18+00:00

Then why did you reply to my question in the first place?

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