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  1. Rational Agnostic

    RFK - Biden More Dangerous than Trump

    I feel like a guy who actually said he wants to be a dictator and said he thinks the president should have unlimited power and once elected, be president for life, is a bigger threat to democracy. And just to give you a hint, it wasn't Biden who said those things.
  2. Rational Agnostic

    The Question Islam and Christianity Can't Answer

    If your future choice is already known with certainty, then you couldn't make a different choice. If your choice is constrained to this single possibility, then in what sense would it be free? It only feels free but it can't actually be free by definition.
  3. Rational Agnostic

    How many vaccinations are too many?

    Sounds like he was either getting paid or had a serious mental illness...
  4. Rational Agnostic

    Trump ordered to pay nearly 355 million in NY fraud case.

    Hmm. I don't remember reading anything in the Constitution that mentions Trump. I also don't recall ever reading anything about him in the Bible. Can you provide the amendment of the constitution that mentions him as the president, and quote the bible verse that mentions him as a proponent of...
  5. Rational Agnostic

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Why do you think a religion that can't provide the answer to such a "silly" ask deserves any converts? :)
  6. Rational Agnostic

    I have a feeling that the afterlife doesn't exist

    I agree.
  7. Rational Agnostic

    Book Recommendations

    The Blind Watchmaker and River Out of Eden by Dr. Richard Dawkins
  8. Rational Agnostic

    Mock Turtle world

    This is a really insightful article and I think the point about too much parental supervision in children's offline lives and not enough in their online lives is a hugely important point.
  9. Rational Agnostic

    Your Paranormal/Magical Experiences

    When I was a kid I thought I saw ghosts in the window of an old Arkansas hotel that had always been considered to be haunted and was one of the ghost sighting capitals of the world. The memory of it isn't detailed enough for me to make an educated guess as to what it actually was that I saw, but...
  10. Rational Agnostic

    Scientists say...

    Not sure Moses was a real person. But if he was, his opinion that the universe had a beginning was definitely not unique. There are lots of other creation myths from other cultures. It isn't very difficult or impressive to make a guess that the universe might have had a beginning and invent a...
  11. Rational Agnostic

    Agnostic Theism

    Why do you think a subjective religious experience should be considered certain knowledge?
  12. Rational Agnostic

    Agnostic Theism

    Interesting. I would say I have almost the exact opposite perspective at this point. I think it would be great to have faith in a god and have some hope for something beyond this life but I have a gut feeling that there is no god. I've been agnostic for a long time but have leaned more toward...
  13. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    Yes you are right. I was in a hurry when I came up with that analogy and skipped the improbability of the punishment. Your analogy is better and contains more scenarios, but for simplicity, what I meant to say was, would you play the lottery if there was a 1 in 100,000,000 chance of winning if...
  14. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I certainly object to any version of Pascal's Wager that is based on belief. I agree it's unlikely we can choose our beliefs, in fact, I don't think it's possible to actually define what a "belief" is or know what anyone's beliefs are, including our own. The reason I thought Dr. Jackson's...
  15. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    None of them seem likely to me, so I don't have an answer. What I took from the video is the idea that if belief (which is likely not something we can consciously control) does not matter and actions (which we can control) do matter, then it potentially could make sense to pick the religion you...
  16. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I think a good analogy would be this: let's say I move from a neighborhood that has no history of burglaries or any type of crime to a neighborhood where, say, 1 out of 50 people's homes are burglarized per year. Even though I don't actually believe that a burglary is going to happen this year...
  17. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    It definitely depends on the religion. Most modern Christians I know live exactly the same way as atheists would and literally nothing is different about their lives other than the occasional prayer or church attendance.
  18. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    Timestamp? I have a BS in Math and a MS in Statistics. There actually are "infinities" of varying sizes, which is referred to as cardinality. To use an easy example, the set of positive integers is smaller than the set of all integers, even though both are infinite sets.
  19. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    The argument isn't about believing that a god exists. It's more along the lines of figuring out which religion you think is most probable and practicing that religion even if you don't believe the god exists, since there's a chance that the god doesn't actually care if you believe in it but only...
  20. Rational Agnostic

    An Interesting Discussion on Pascal's Wager

    I won't preface this with anything, other than the fact that this discussion was genuinely interesting to me, and is one of the few discussions that I have seen where the theist actually made me think. I don't think it's at all likely that any gods exist, but perhaps Dr. Jackson made a good...
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