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by Physics Guy
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

I disagree with gemli that every religion requires belief in things with incontrovertible evidence against them. My own personal religion seems to me to be a counterexample. I believe things that are not implied by any incontrovertible evidence, that's true, but I don't think I believe anything that...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

He's posting on a Mormon blog!! How does that make his statement about non-Mormons accurate? Every single time a Mormon says 'i know because the spirit told me' or some variation, they are testifying that their beliefs are justified by their sincerity in holding them. Hmm. You were Mormon, and you ...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

But gemli's list didn't even include Mormons specifically, and did include a lot of other groups, none of whom actually think as he said they do, at least not in any significant numbers. I mean, really, flat-earthers will talk your ear off with all their complicated reasons for their beliefs: conspi...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

PG, it appears your thoughts on the matter overlook the distinction between sincerity and justification in belief formation. While sincerity may rebut charges of deliberate fraud, it doesn't inherently justify one's beliefs. Deluded individuals, like the Mopologists, often believe they have good re...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers
Replies: 259
Views: 84503

Re: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers

Heh, that's true. You can't think too much about The Lord of the Rings . Giant eagles can carry hobbits, so why don't they just dive-bomb the ring into Mount Doom? It might not exactly be a sure bet, with flying Nazgûl around, but it seems better than the "simply walk into Mordor" plan that they fol...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:11 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

No, I've never been to one of those. I've read quite a few arguments by most if not all of the kinds of believers gemli mentioned, though, and none of them has ever mentioned their own sincerity as a justification for their belief. That's just not at all a common reason for believing things, even am...
by Physics Guy
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

I think Peterson clearly wins this round. Whatever is wrong with the thinking of theists and flat-earthers and all, very few of them think that their beliefs are justified by their own sincerity. I mean, who does ever think that? The reason to mention sincerity is to rebut the charge of deliberate f...
by Physics Guy
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers
Replies: 259
Views: 84503

Re: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers

The old rules were even worse about down time: they stipulated "monthly expenses". Player characters had to drop 1000 gold pieces per level per month, supposedly in maintaining a lifestyle commensurate with their experience level. The idea was to keep the players hungry for loot even as the profits ...
by Physics Guy
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: [Super Spirit Paradise]
Topic: The fried egg.
Replies: 9
Views: 307

Re: The fried egg.

The union of 2 points in free space is egg shaped when the points expand equally in all directions at the same rate. The two spheres may become enormous, but their union becomes a static shape, when their union is complete. No, that’s a lentil shape. It only looks ovoid from some angles. It always ...
by Physics Guy
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6565

Re: Gemli explains...

The "jumped-up monkeys thinking with lumps of meat" line is one I use in teaching quantum mechanics. ( Etwas entwickelte Affen, die mit Fleisch denken müssen ... .) I want to get students to get over just feeling overwhelmed and stupid, which is what we all are, and start struggling with understandi...