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Originally Posted by Brutha  I never argued that claim. I just argue that |
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He is a praticing Christian.
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Well, like I said, he's not a very good speaker! I listened doggedly to the whole hour and a half of the damn thing because you recommended it, and he said specifically that he was a skeptic. He seemed to suggest that people see patterns where there are none, in the same mumbled 'sentence' as religious people - but it was full of
you knows and
ers and
ums, and I certainly got the impression that he was not supporting the idea of psychics, God, or, as far as I could tell, anything whatsoever. He said that people often ask him in his lectures "So, what should we do" and he says his message is what not to do - and the main bit is not to trust experts and never take advice from someone wearing a tie. It was perhaps one of the least important hour and a halfs of my entire life.
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That reminds me of the fact that there are no peer revied studies which show that, wearning a parachute when you jump out of planes will increae your likelyhood of living after you land on the ground.
After all there are some documented cases of people who have survied without a parachute.
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Yes. That's why I chose blowing your head off with a shotgun for comparison, and specifically didn't say 'shoot yourself in the head', which is also not always fatal.
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In cases where you have incomplete information it's best to choice with a lesser amount of risk.
Don't hold the shotgun at your head or jump out of the plane without parachut but it doesn't matter much when you listen to a psychic and make decision that are within your normal range of action (that don't contain much additional risk).
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Whatever.