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palladias comments on Thwarting a Catholic conversion? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Jay_Schweikert 18 June 2012 04:26PM

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Comment author: palladias 19 June 2012 05:04:19AM 8 points [-]

I read the curated blog, not the discussion forum so much. You got rumbled by google analytics, which showed me a lot of traffic coming from here. I'm actually going to the July rationality minicamp, so if any people in this thread are going to, they can distill the best of this thread for what I assume are forthcoming fights.

Comment author: Karmakaiser 19 June 2012 03:09:47PM 6 points [-]

I'm actually going to the July rationality minicamp,

Please, please, please blog this. I would love reading it.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 June 2012 12:46:35PM 4 points [-]

I would like to ask this:

Do you expect any experience (before death, of course) that you would not predict using an atheist point of view?

Comment author: ciphergoth 19 June 2012 11:44:32AM 4 points [-]

No fights, just opportunities for us to use each other's brains to update for greater accuracy!

Comment author: Will_Newsome 07 July 2012 03:56:36AM 4 points [-]

Perhaps we should fight over whether one should actually convert? Of all actual institutions and traditions I lean most towards Catholicism but have not converted due to e.g. moral uncertainty about what counts as consent to delusion and what counts as unjustified endorsement of suboptimality. Catholicism has more and subtler truths in it than you can find anywhere else, but...

"Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong; rather, it is telling the difference between right and almost right.”

— Charles Spurgeon