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stcredzero comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: stcredzero 14 June 2012 10:09:14PM 3 points [-]

For me, there are the odds that "God" exists and there are the odds that I can ever fully shake the conditioning and indoctrination of my childhood, such that a charismatic, confident, person could ever get me to hesitate or win some sort of personal "victory" in a fact to face confrontation.

The former is zero, the latter is somewhat higher.

Comment author: DanielLC 14 June 2012 10:36:02PM 0 points [-]

The former is zero

Exactly zero, or just epsilon?

Comment author: stcredzero 15 June 2012 03:19:41PM 0 points [-]

Exactly zero, or just epsilon?

I can answer your question with a certainty higher than either of those.