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  1. AlexanderG

    Your Experience with Supplements

    "Sugar pills have helped many people. There are many anecdotes of people who take them and have improved issues and health problems without resorting to medication again. I think it just depends on the person." Can you tell the difference between the truth value of your statement and the one...
  2. AlexanderG

    Your Experience with Supplements

    Do you know what the only difference is between supplements and medicine? Medicine has been demonstrated to have any positive effect, and supplements have not. Not only that, but most supplements do not contain the active ingredient they claim. In one study, only about 20% of supplements...
  3. AlexanderG

    Rights and Taxes

    Are you suggesting that federal tax dollars are spent to support women acquiring abortions? Because they aren't. There is currently a law against it. The Hyde Amendment. States and municipalities can make their own decisions, of course, and they do according to voter preferences. Living in a...
  4. AlexanderG

    Biden to Putin. Don't, don't, dont.

    If Putin used nuclear weapons, presumably on a civilian population center (but even if not), he would be quickly assassinated by his own advisors. Russia would become even more of a pariah state. Only about 1/3 of trade its is blocked right now, but that would go up to 100% among everyone but...
  5. AlexanderG

    A Case of Hypocrisy and Racism?

    What is your point here? Didn't the entire community come together and care for these immigrants until a more long term solution was organized? Don't you think caring for a family and their young children needs a different set of resources than providing lodging, restaurants, and clean beaches...
  6. AlexanderG

    Why do you looking to find faults in other peoples belief?

    Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them." Have you just not read the bible? Did you not know this was in there? Do you think that parents who disown their gay teenagers...
  7. AlexanderG

    Is anti-theism (satanism) better than atheism?

    This is another sad trope of Christian fearmongers. Compare what "militant atheist" evokes in your mind, and then contrast that image with a "militant Islamist." How much overlap is there? People like to refer to atheists who vocalize their disagreement with Christians as "militant." But we're...
  8. AlexanderG

    Why do you looking to find faults in other peoples belief?

    Ok, well in fact the Bible instructs families to throw rocks at their gay teenagers until they're dead, because they're abominations and "their blood shall be upon them." So, disowning them is arguably a loose, overly kind interpretation. But you're right, it technically doesn't say to disown...
  9. AlexanderG

    Pope's call to end Fundamentalism

    You do understand that every single Christian believes that they personally have the correct interpretation of the bible? And there's no one who can gainsay them, because there is no objective standard to determine which interpretation is correct. People can interpret the bible however they...
  10. AlexanderG

    Pope's call to end Fundamentalism

    Good for him. It always seems like the more loosely we interpret an ancient holy scripture, the more it becomes compatible with everything humanity has since learned about decency, empathy, and the pragmatic factors that promote human flourishing. Churches are still good for improving...
  11. AlexanderG

    Violent Indictment

    When these bumpkins, mainly Evangelicals, are raised thinking that the more they want something to be true, the more likely that thing is actually true, then they are primed for this sort of propaganda. That is why they also fall for MLMs and conspiracy theories more than other groups. "If it...
  12. AlexanderG

    Why do you looking to find faults in other peoples belief?

    I don't hate anyone? I'm hoping to help them. If people learn to form their beliefs based on bad reasoning, then it can bleed over into other parts of their life, harming themselves and others. For example, Evangelicals, who have been raised to think that wanting a claim to be true will in fact...
  13. AlexanderG

    Why do you looking to find faults in other peoples belief?

    In my experience, people who are naturally hateful tend to focus on the hateful verses in their holy scripture. People who are naturally kind and confident will gravitate toward interpretations of the same scripture that encourage them to continue being kind. If you're acting hateful, that's a...
  14. AlexanderG

    Why do you looking to find faults in other peoples belief?

    Mainly, the faults I want to point out are the ones that cause believers to harm other people, solely because of those faulty beliefs. For example, a family disowning their gay teenager. If they didn't embrace these fallacies, biases, or baseless claims, then the world would be an objectively...
  15. AlexanderG

    The Plan

    I'm not sure what you're talking about? Because you're using poetry and metaphor? To refer to abstract, unverifiable concepts? And ending every sentence with a question mark? But seriously, this could be an interesting topic, but I'm not quite sure what the topic is or why one should be "worried."
  16. AlexanderG

    The interpretive headscratcher that is Evangelicalism

    I saw this new video from Belief It Or Not, which does great video essays on Christianity in the US. This one is basically about how conservative Evangelical types stand for the opposite of everything Jesus said. It's longer, but it's good. Let me know what you think?
  17. AlexanderG

    All humans are believers

    Yes, everyone believes things. At a minimum, everyone believes that they themselves exist. Most people have many more beliefs, depending on their experience, their reasoning skills, and their standards of evidence. You said: "We have to choose how to deal with what we cannot know." I know it's...
  18. AlexanderG

    Being Human and Sin

    I have a related question: According to the Abrahamic faiths, we all have a sinful nature and are born with sin. So, if it's impossible for any full human to choose never to sin, then do we actually have free will to choose never to sin? To that effect, is free will only meaningful for...
  19. AlexanderG

    Atheists OBEs and NDEs

    Because all of the reported experiences can be explained by a brain that is starved of oxygen, and the chemical imbalances as it is shutting down. And the "light at the end of the tunnel" is most likely an extreme form of the tunnel vision you can get when you stand up suddenly and blood rushes...
  20. AlexanderG

    Question about the lake of fire

    Just interpret it however you like, to emotionally satisfy yourself. That's what everyone else does. No one can gainsay your particular interpretation, since there is no objective way to confirm whose interpretation is actually correct.
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