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The conversion of Spanish Jews was in lieu of a pogrom - and it worked. A number of Jews were assimilated
I notice that once more you assail the Bible and not the Torah
Quote from: CliveG on 11/03/2020 05:53:22The conversion of Spanish Jews was in lieu of a pogrom - and it worked. A number of Jews were assimilated ….and a greater number were tortured to death and/or had their assets seized. Interesting definition of "worked", worthy of Goebbels himself.
If God wants all religions to update and improve then Judaism is not an exception.
Quote from: CliveG on 11/03/2020 17:54:34If God wants all religions to update and improve then Judaism is not an exception.Please get this straight. There is no evidence for a god that wants anything, or even exists. Religion is an excuse for doing things that would otherwise be considered pointless or positively evil.
Quote from: Europan Ocean on 09/03/2020 10:09:45He really wanted interdependence. It is nonsense to say "God wanted X". The omniscient, omnipotent creator of everything, creates exactly what he wants.
He really wanted interdependence.
The Muslims wash themselves and are cleaner than if they used toilet paper.
Quote from: CliveG on 11/03/2020 15:27:15The Muslims wash themselves and are cleaner than if they used toilet paper.I am always impressed by the breadth and depth of specialist knowledge in this forum. Comparative theoproctological hygeine! Whatever next? But seriously. My muslim friends buy toilet paper. Are they building some fiendish weapon with it, or just destabilising western society by causing panic?
Well, so far my prayers are being answered. The corona virus is not yet collapsing the SA market and we have a buyer for the house we left. The problem my wife faces is how to invest the money. In what? So far she has a balanced portfolio in anticipation - unlike some who promote one strategy or the other.
Quote from: alancalverd on 10/03/2020 22:39:45Quote from: Europan Ocean on 09/03/2020 10:09:45He really wanted interdependence. It is nonsense to say "God wanted X". The omniscient, omnipotent creator of everything, creates exactly what he wants.Are you sure ? I would have to take the Pantheist view of god, a god which is an automaton. The universe is the way it is because that is how it responds. Any other definition of a god is a fraction of the universe, ie a demi god, or an attempt to explain aspects of the universe in terms a peasant can understand. Hinduisms supreme deity if you read up about it, is pantheist. All the little gods like shiva etc are attempts to explain to peasants different aspects of the supreme deity. I would also raise the question of where do people think their consciousness/soul resides. ?
Quote from: CliveG on 11/03/2020 15:27:15Well, so far my prayers are being answered. The corona virus is not yet collapsing the SA market and we have a buyer for the house we left. The problem my wife faces is how to invest the money. In what? So far she has a balanced portfolio in anticipation - unlike some who promote one strategy or the other.Have you prayed for the virus to be eradicated altogether? Or at least, the vaccine to be successfully developed and tested?
Just started watching. I see they have episode 5 called "Prayers Might Work".
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or strengthens one's prior personal beliefs or hypotheses.[1] It is a type of cognitive bias. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply-entrenched beliefs.People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way. However, even scientists and intelligent people can be prone to confirmation bias.[2]Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions due to these biases have been found in political, organizational and scientific contexts.[3][4]. For example, confirmation bias produces systematic errors in research based on inductive reasoning.