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Thread #131443   Message #2967973
Posted By: Little Hawk
18-Aug-10 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Who will we blame for everything when...
Subject: RE: BS: Who will we blame for everything when...
Anyone bothering to post at length on a subject like this one, Bill, values rational thinking tremendously or they wouldn't be participating in the discussion.

That includes people of religious or spiritual belief who post here. They also value rational thinking tremendously, and they practice it, just like you do.

I think Ebbie has it right. Your intentions are of the best, but your rationality is somewhat hampered by the fact that you are too ready to disbelieve in a great variety of things, and that isn't prompted by true rationality...it's driven by an emotional bias, one which you may not be aware of. You would like things to be a certain way. (Everyone's like that, by the way.) And that gives you some emotional bias which impacts upon your objectivity and capriciously bends it this way or that way.

This is quite evident to anyone whose beliefs don't all fall in line with yours, but I very much doubt it's evident to you.

Do I have emotional biases that affect my objectivity too? Of course! Everyone does, and I recognize that. I've never met anyone who was free of emotional bias that affected their overall view of life in various ways and bent their "rationality" a bit out of shape from time to time...specially in regards to matters that were, for them, emotional triggers.

Religion and spirituality are among the things that emotionally trigger you, Bill. That's why you keep beating that dead horse I was alluding to awhile back. ;-)

Like you, I am emotionally triggered by certain things too. To figure out what those things are, you would only need to carefully study the thousands of posts I've made on this forum, and you could soon figure it out...using your rational powers. ;-)