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Gada_Goh

Gada_Goh

@beemangler.bsky.social

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I'm not interested in what you don't want to do. Pronouns; thee, thou and thine. 🇬🇧

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Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 4h

So in a search for a fundamental truth I'd expect to see convergence of ideas.

If there is no fundamental truth I'd expect to see randomness as people chase the results they like.

I realise I'm in danger of appearing rude. Not my intention.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a former research scientist. Imperfect discipline because it's run by humans.

In my world you test and reject hypotheses based on evidence in a journey towards an answer.

As I see religion, perhaps wrongly, there is an answer given and the counter-evidence is glossed over.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

I think you are saying Jainism might be right but human nature is such that we will never find the humility to change horses.

I'm saying religion is a search for a fundamental truth which doesn't exist.

I'm not sure it is possible to tell the difference, sitting as we do, in the middle of it.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

So the Dawkins thing is partly about echo chambers and partly about the baffling diversity of religious faiths.

I come back to my point, every faith is striving for truth yet they are on divergent paths. How is that possible if religion is anything more than superstition?

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

I said it was a decision I was happy with. But I asked, suppose I'd been born in India? I could live my whole life and never meet a Christian. I'd think the Hindu faith was the right one. It seems unfair to exclude someone like that from heaven, when they never had the facts to make the choice.

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Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

Picking up on the point of where you were born. I married a Catholic and was given some spiritual guidance by the priest. Lovely man, a shining example of humanity.

Anyway he explained we had free will and if I chose not to accept the Christian faith it was a decision which would shape my eternity.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

So if you are within a religion the 'truth' is at the core of your world view. Your religion is the true religion, others are at best misguided at worst downright evil.

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Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5h

I didn't read it like that. I mean, yes that is literally what he wrote, but the point as I see it is that religions generally seem to lay claim to an explanation of the world which is laid out as a truth to be accepted.

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Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 6h

Ah well, the innate desire to not only be right but to force others to also be right is a bit of an obstacle to consensus. That I grant you.

I don't particularly like Dawkins, but I think he makes a good general point here.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 16h

You'd certainly think that after all these millennia, if there were a single spiritual truth we'd have agreed on what it was by now.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 1d

It would take a clever advertisement to make me want mesothelioma.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 1d

I'm British and I've been to 4. Can I claim permanent residency?

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 1d

I guess he dines in a dining room and bathes in a bathroom.

Makes me wonder; this ballroom, what exactly is he planning to do in it?

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 3d

A bounty where the dollar figure is stated specifically rather than the nebulous promise of 'followers', 'clicks' and 'likes'.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 4d

She never gave edam about anyone but herself.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 4d

No teenager needs to be put through this nonsense, growing up is hard enough already.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 4d

Depends if you're facing north or south.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5d

Oh the Grand old Duke of York
He had twelve million quid
He gave them to someone he'd never met for something he never did.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 5d

"US Marshal arrested for obstructing ICE bullet."

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 6d

More than two there. Just saying.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is a British asset?

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 7d

You both seem to be wearing pointy hats, is there to be a fancy dress party later?

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 7d

Or going off prematurely.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 7d

Trump would never risk being accused of firing blanks.

Gada_Goh @beemangler.bsky.social · 7d

Do they not have blank rounds for this purpose?