Comments by "0x777" (@0x777) on "Rationality Rules"
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Daniel Justin There are actually pretty good counter arguments for both these "arguments"
"You can't prove that God doesn't exist, can you?"
When trying to achieve knowledge of what really is, there are logically two starting points you can work away from. You can either work from the point that nothing is that isn't shown to exist, or you can work from the point that everything is possible until proven wrong. What you can't do is pick and choose. Either nothing exists until proven to exist or everything (possibly) exists until falsified.
I doubt that a theist wants to start from the second, the "all is that isn't disproved", point. Because then he would bear the burden to prove the nonexistence of Ra, Thor, Vishnu, Allah, God, Zeus, Toutatis, the flying spaghetti monster and the invisible pink unicorn, to name a select few of the pantheon of millions of (potentially) existing gods. And no, your god doesn't get a special dispensation, either you prove that yours exist or you prove that all the others do not. Your choice.
"So who created this universe then?"
A similar problem. Even assuming that it was created, we're dealing with a lot of conflicting creation myths in various religions. By their very nature they might all be wrong but they can't all be right, so we're back to the theist having to show that his creation myth is the one that is the true one.
And no, "because it says so in my book" doesn't mean jack. The guy over there holding a completely different book makes exactly the same argument.
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I do this thing called pizzapathy. When I have a headache, I eat a pizza. And 2-3 hours later, my headaches are gone, so this proves that the pizza works great against headaches. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's called initial worsening, usually taking another pizza a few hours later cures it. From time to time, though, I have to switch pizzas, currently I work with pizza tonno, but until recently cardinale was the right kind of pizza for me, it varies from person to person and it also fluctuates with time. I have to do more research into the matter.
Originally I had the idea 'cause the smell of anchovies makes me sick to my stomach, so I had that bright idea that eating a pizza with anchovies would cure it, and what can you say, it worked.
Only side effect I can see so far is I put on weight...
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