Saturday, April 19, 2014

An apparently difficult set of notions, that are indisputably true, but very few people see as true:

There is a set of concepts that I use that are beyond a doubt true and that very few people seem to realize are true and that I cannot seem to convince people to adopt.

The basic idea is that we should not accept any claim until there is evidence or logic supporting the claim.

I submit that this MUST be applied to any claim AND one must employ brutal intellectual honesty when applying it.

What I see though is that very few people can truly apply this process.

Even people that can apply it to one area are incapable of applying it to other areas.

For example, I have seen atheists that have adopted this approach to religion but then cannot apply it to political world view questions or cannot apply it to "conspiracy theory questions" or cannot apply it to questions like "Is there such a thing as absolute morality."



(This post is essentially just putting a stake in the ground. There is much, much more to flesh out here, but it would take much more work then I wish to expend right now. Hopefully you will see the general point that I'm trying to make...?)

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