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Mahault Albarracin
MahaultAlbarra1
The complexity of social beliefs is that they can be real by virtue of being told, and thus the notion of evidence is entirely connected to our heuristics for common
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Jay Van Bavel
jayvanbavel
How do people respond to unfilled prophecies & disappointed messiahs?"A man with a conviction is hard to change...Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic
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Mike Veenie
fnveenie
A short thread that is relevant to yesterday. I'm not happy with how it's written, but I feel that the ideas are important. Beliefs are catalysts to behaviour. If someone
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Skeptic Review
SkepticReview89
In our discussions on social justice and racism, some asking for evidence are accused of power plays or supremacism or oppression. But skeptics understand the brain is a trickster. How?
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Timothy Snyder
TimothyDSnyder
1/10. Cruz et al do not allege fraud, they allege allegations of fraud. 2/10. When there are false allegations of fraud, a serious public servant tells the truth. 3/10. Elections
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Reginald Braithwaite
raganwald
Consider these two beliefs:1. Tyranny is _binary_. A government is tyrannical, or it is not.2. Tyranny is _total_. A tyrannical government oppresses all of its citizens, or none. If you
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DAN KOE
thedankoe
You are brainwashed (whether you like it or not)Here is how you can use it to your advantageThread: Everyone is brainwashedSome more, some lessEveryone holds beliefs that they were taught
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Karla Monterroso
karlitaliliana
I watched 3 Black women I admire, who have a proven records for working hard for change (and getting results), get mobbed on here for opinions about their opinions. It
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Michael Hobbes
RottenInDenmark
Seeing a lot of empty hypocrisy takes along the lines of, "I guess libs only like protests when they're for causes they agree with" and, um, yes. It's actually fine
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"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"
Aelkus
another thing it means is that a) people can have extreme beliefs and behave absolutely identically to ordinary people b) people can behave in extreme ways without actually having extreme
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Richard Clark
TheRichardClark
My theological beliefs haven't really changed in yearsbut my relationship with the communities that espouse my theological beliefs sure have. I'm still a reformed evangelical complementarian who believes in full-immersion
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Beige Shiba ♔
BeigeShiba
> Wake up> Mentions are entirely full of people beating their heads against a wall for hours on end of arguing with people who are completely emotionally incapable of changing
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Andric Tham
astralwave
Having a persistent model of a network of beliefs > isolated hypotheses.Network of beliefs helps you do this:1. When A is true, B will be true.2. When B is true,
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Davé
dsteninger
I love to see people talking about how we develop our morals, and whether science can determine moral values.I don't know about that, but the process of developing a sense
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Petina Gappah
VascoDaGappah
Hi Yvonne thanks for flagging this. This is not the correct legal position. It is not possible to punish the belief in witchcraft but the law punishes the harm coming
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Roary
GrRoary
I honestly don't think it's helpful or accurate to refer to trans as a 'cult'. It's a narrative/set of beliefs that some people use to make sense of their experiences.
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