It’s because we all watched, in real time, and realized that a lot of people can become addicts.
I get the appeal of libertarian “legalize everything” ideas, but people are really bad at self-policing
Ok, we cannot physically prove if belief is a choice or not.
So demonstrate that I am wrong and choose to believe I am right. Choose to believe that you have no choice
Cool. Demonstrate that it’s a choice and just choose to believe I am right about this?
Sure, but that doesn’t imply choice.
I choose to lift my hand right now. That’s a voluntary choice.
Belief is not
Ok, so you admit that you currently believe things that are false, right?(this is normal)
So given that fact, I’d like you to choose to believe something you currently “know” to be false. I’ll let you pick anything so you can demonstrate your choice and just choose to believe the opposite.
Let me ask you a question. Do you currently know for a fact that everything you believe is the truth?
Or is it possible you mistakenly believe something that is false?
My point stands though. Belief is not a choice. Belief is like your heart rate. It is involuntary.
Now you can do all kinds of things in the short term and long term to influence your heart rate. But you cannot choose your heart rate.
It has nothing to do with determinism.
Our beliefs are a consequence, not an active choice. Want proof? I want you to choose to believe something you know is false.
Can’t do it?
Of course not. Beliefs are simply a consequence of what we think.
Are we talking in the Descartes’ sense or about Mormonism?
I cannot choose not to exist nor can a Mormon choose to not be a Mormon
No.
People don’t just choose to believe things that they think are false. And they tend to believe things they think are true.
You have no control over what you think is true/false. It’s just a consequence.
In the sense that doxastic voluntarism has generally been shown to be false?
I mean, do you believe you can just choose to be a Mormon?
I find it funny that you believe a religious view is a choice.
The capitalist who got banned from a country for sponsoring anti-communism efforts
We tell cub scouts about the six essentials for any hike
-water
-sun protection
-first aid
-whistle
-food
-flashlight
This is a great story for why a whistle is important.
Solar concentrators were a short fad. Kinda neat, but these and those solar water heaters just aren’t great
Just got temporarily banned from #Reddit for telling someone that child abuse was more egregious than animal abuse.
Apparently, according to their logic, that means I am endorsing animal abuse?
WTF?!?!
I think there is a much simpler indicator.
Trump is going to have a meeting about bombing Iran today.
Just ask yourself: would that be a stupid idea?
Yes? Trump is going to do that.
Hey, we appreciate it.
I’ll be honest, I’ve been interviewing with a lot of companies because my skill set is essentially “build critical data centers”
I want to keep working to make this a safe country, but I didn’t sign up for whatever this is called.
I thought they burned people at the stake for using fart magic
I think the statute of limitations for arson is 3 years in Arkansas
That’s not even a theory. Forbidden words have evolved over time. Prior to the Victorian era, we have all kinds of examples of priests using vulgar words and insults.
Their only concern was saying something like “god damn you”. But they’d freely call you a “horse fucker”
I mean, they are also hard to study because they are marine mammals and we humans kinda suck at swimming.
Obligatory Mark Twain reference
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Thank you.
Though that Wikipedia article referring to a “2170” instead of calling it a “21700” is making my brain hurt today
The naming convention seems very clear.
I’d argue that they don’t learn things like physics, math, etc from lectures.
History, philosophy, etc are great for lectures. Heck, they invented the lecture
I think math is tough for mastery because it involves practice, but doesn’t seem like it involves practice.
Kind of like how people who read a lot assume that writing is easy
Let the free market handle it
If users don’t like the algorithm, they can use social media with open algorithms
As a parent, the jerkass trope is horrible for kids under 10.
They just act like little assholes until you go block the show from Netflix
I’m at that age, they think a fart is the funniest thing they’ve ever seen, so just have more fart jokes and less jerkasses
It’s a known problem with children’s cognitive capabilities
This is why they now discourage having “bad kids” as characters, because kids emulate them
I just don’t see this being a good idea.
If the GOP balks: they look like assholes which helps the Dems.
If the GOP doesn’t balk, it is a non-story
