Message from @Dr.Wol
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this is a witty sentance without much substantive meaning
#magabomber is trending
And that works for "truth" Atkins, but for facts it doesn't
Thats why Trans people systematically outperform women in sports,
Men are superior physically, that is a fact,
And no amount of "I want to believe" will change it
You can go to a Buddhist temple and ask the same question to every Brahman there and each one would give you their own answer.
as a centrist i am only half religious, obviously
Yes, let's stick with that exmaple.
Male and female relative accomplishment.
According to the scientific method, we collect observations.
We are reasonably sure because we have observed a lot of men and women.
But it's not impossible we haven't made the right observations, but as the number of observations increase, them all being wrong becomes very unlikely.
@Dr.Wol you need to learn to step outside the modernist worldview because your enemies live outside its confines.
However, it does not change the fact that it remains a stochastic process.
you need to learn to understand how they think
otherwise all your facts and logic and reason will fail you
In a way, everything about science is a series of statistical observations.
sounds like liberalism to me
So nothing is ever proven.
Not proven about reality at least.
You can make proofs by formulating axioms and rules of inference.
But the axioms are only as accurate as the observations of reality they match.
@Atkins they will not, and you're talking shit,
You're arguing about the fact that those in power make the rules,
But those in power can't change reality,
They can only compel me to say what they say
But they can't change reality
these are people who believe, if not explicitly than implicitly, that the world we inhabit is merely a consensual hallucination, and if all participants believe something it becomes fact
it doesn't
thats why Truth is not the same as Fact
you and i believe that
they don't
and they have power
(((they)))
it doesn't matter, Facts are static, you can't change them
Truth is in the eye of the beholder
I don't like the distinction between truth and fact.
truth is whatever the one holding the gun says it is
Facts are that if you pour half a dozen bullets through a living human beings head with a gun he'll die
No amount of "I say its not so" will change that
Maybe truth as in observation and fact as some theoretical reality that we need to infer.
A religion that forbids questions is one I don't want to be part of.
Anyway. I don't want to guide my life by things I cannot test.
i am not a post-modernist. i don't believe this crap. but you need to be able to understand those that are. you are failing to do so and your puffy statements about facts are irrelevant to those who seek to have you under their boot.
Truth is subjective,
Facts are static, they don't chang, no matter what anyone chooses to believe
To the degree that I can test religion, I would apply the scientific method, which makes the distinction moot.
you can never test everything that needs to be true for a plane to fly