Re:Larry Wall on religion and Perl culture (1999)
by stopmi on Saturday February 12, 2011 @02:37AM
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"You are fixated on everything being about truth and facts and who's right"
would you rather i countered an argument with untruths and lies?
what i'm trying to say is, if you are willing to give credibility to any assertion which is without proof, then you have to give an equal amount to credibility to _all_ assertions without proof
i.e, all religions equally, fairies, leprechauns, elfs, russel's teapot, a furry-god, Elvis still alive, alien-invasions and abductions, etc..
and problems arise then, if you give credibility to _all_ religions, there will be contradictions
- they have different creation stories and timelines
- multiple 'unique' prophets
- multiple 'chosen' tribe/people
etc..
Exactly! And vice versa!
Who said anything about "giving weight" to "ramblings"? You are fixated on everything being about truth and facts and who's right, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Maybe you don't want anything bigger than observable facts and theories based thereupon in your life, but I hope when your parents say they love you you don't tell yourself that it's simply endorphins firing in their brains.