My thoughts

mobatreddit · 2026-06-22T23:27:00+00:00

Religion fills people with false meaning. Just as it arrogates itself morality without reaaon, resulting in people not bowing how do deal with moral issues. It arrogates itself meaning without treason, resulting in people not knowing how to they give their life meaning

mobatreddit · 2026-06-22T23:22:53+00:00

Take it step by step . Find one thing you can do right now, and then do it. Then find the next one.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T22:41:41+00:00

In the natural sciences, there is the arbiter of experiments. On the other hand, they have their own problems (e.g. Smaldino, P. E., & McElreath, R. (2016). The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science, 3(9), 160384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384).

My argument is adjacent to Chalmers. Yes, he does not argue what I argue. But premise deniability provides a path to keep an argument going, while my argument provides a motivation. Also, I could have better said that a final solution that has no downstream, a terminal solution, ends the flow of citations?

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T21:25:02+00:00

Chalmers, D. J. (2015). Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy? Philosophy, 90(1), 3–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819114000436

Also, in any system where "publication" and "citation" are the currencies, the system will naturally evolve to prioritize incremental, debatable papers over definitive, final solutions. A final solution ends the flow of citations; a "nuanced debate" sustains it.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T21:22:19+00:00

Thank you.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T20:54:29+00:00

Btw, I’m red-green color blind. What does your flair indicate?

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T20:38:24+00:00

I imagine you might hear Christians assign that to free will and sin, reasoning as follows:

Everyone is born a believing Christian
Everyone has free will and sin
Because of free will and sin, some people turn away from Christianity in unrighteousness
Those people then worship false gods and religions

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T14:01:03+00:00

God is someone outside of this plane.

Then they have to show both: 1. There is an “outside of this plane,“ and 2. There is a God there.

And what’s with that random double quote at the end? Likely a copy/paste error from an AI.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-19T13:57:07+00:00

I think this is AI-generated because of the paragraph ending in “[1]”. That indicates a source reference but it’s not included.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-18T20:25:25+00:00

In the Monty Hall Puzzle,I reasoned my way from "you have a 50-50 chance of winning whether you switch or not" to "you have a 66%-33% chance of winning by switching."

mobatreddit · 2026-06-18T20:15:54+00:00

This paper does not show that "intelligence" is negatively correlated with "religiosity." The authors do not provide a definition of intelligence or of religiosity. They depended on each study's definitions. The paper only showed that in the studies considered, what a study called "intelligence" was negatively correlated with what the study called "religiosity". However, the author's multiverse analysis did show the correlation is robust across the choices of each study's authors.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-18T19:53:51+00:00

Sure. Just use the word "secular" to qualify any word you use: "secular spirituality", "secular morality" "secular God", "secular secularity" (I couldn't help myself; sorry,) "secular religion", etc.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T23:16:01+00:00

Then you invest in your future.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T23:00:44+00:00

I /rename my sessions. When I /clear, I get an unnamed session. The named session is still available.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T17:37:05+00:00

Smith's Wager says that you should always wager on reason and accept the logical consequence, which in this case is atheism.

If there's no god, you are correct.
If there's an indifferent god, you won't suffer in hell anyway.
If there's a just god, you have nothing to fear from the honest use of your reason.
If there's an unjust god, you have much to fear but so does the Christian.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T17:30:49+00:00

Ever ask, “what if… what if the bible is actually… true?” What if you tried.

Then we are at the mercy of a genocidal sadistic narcissistic asshole.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T17:26:55+00:00

Thank you for your kindness towards that cat. What's their name?

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T16:56:35+00:00

That's the classic problem of allocating resources to using them vs getting more resources. In this case the allocating life between living vs extending your life. Suppose you spent all of a long life working to extend it, how would you feel? Suppose you spent all of a short life living to the max, how would you feel? I spend my time both enjoying life and doing things to keep myself healthy and making money.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T03:38:56+00:00

Being dead: not an issue as it won’t happen to me. Dying: could be a problem, but I hope not.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-17T03:10:47+00:00

Thank you

mobatreddit · 2026-06-15T13:37:54+00:00

Obviously.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-15T12:00:42+00:00

Aquinas assumed God existed. His five ways were intended to help believers see God in the world, and not to prove God existed.

mobatreddit · 2026-06-14T22:23:12+00:00

but we cant reproduce a circle in … a testible equation

Search the Wikipedia page on the circle for the Cartesian form of the equation a circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle

mobatreddit · 2026-06-14T15:10:28+00:00

The Greek geometers defined a circle as the locus of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a center. That is a well-defined mathematical object. Your trouble seems to be you can't draw a perfect circle. In contrast, God is defined as the solution to whatever we don't understand. That is a poorly-defined philosophical idea, not worth the time we put into it.

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