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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.
Please, please, please blog this. I would love reading it.
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?
No fights, just opportunities for us to use each other's brains to update for greater accuracy!
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...
— Charles Spurgeon