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Just a couple things. The notion of "balance" is relevant, but the earth doesn't have a fixed "set point" that it will naturally return to. The relevant balance is the energy balance. Right now, the energy coming in to the earth's systems is larger than the amount going out. So, in terms of energy i...

Yes false beliefs tend to have more negative consequences then true beliefs. Anti vaxxers are a good example of a credulous belief that is getting a lot of people killed and hurt. All right, what do you suggest? Should we get rid of all religions? Maybe we should let the government approve "truth c...

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Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:17 pm

Those men are either Stake Presidents, or ambulance chasing lawyers.

I don’t think the categories are mutually exclusive.

I didn’t see you point out actual lies in Biden’s speech, Ajax. Biden's statement that the Afghans weren't willing to fight was a lie. Over 50,000 Afghans have died fighting the Taliban in the last couple years. Source? Even so, Biden was addressing their willingness to fight without US assistance ...

I didn’t see you point out actual lies in Biden’s speech, Ajax. :lol: There’s a significant difference between changing a policy, such as border enforcement, and reneging on an agreement made on behalf of the United States, such as Trump’s Peace Agreement with the Taliban. One involves a loss of cre...

The purveyors of bogus knowledge, on the other hand, really like to allude to thick books and long videos, without deigning even to suggest what the major points in them are. This is like 99% of every Peterson/Midgeley comment on Sic et Non. "You just haven't read my 200 page paper from 1987 that h...

<snip> The conservative Protestant Christian line about the Bible being all 100% good and true is hard to accept if you read the Bible. Conservative Protestants do often read the Bible a lot, though, and they manage to uphold their doctrine of complete inspiration nonetheless. How they manage it, i...

Thanks. I think that’s the difference between apolgetics and truth-seeking.

Thanks Gabriel!

It is still amazing to me how little I learned about the Bible growing up LDS.