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Will_Newsome comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: Ixiel 13 March 2014 08:58:49AM 5 points [-]

I was brought up Catholic, and quickly decided religion (later updated to human scribes millennia ago and blind faith therein) didn't really understand the difference between "bigger than I can understand" and "infinite." I also have a life so cartoonishly awesome (let me know if you have a solution to this, but I honestly believe if I laid down the facts people would think I'm lying), I figured what I called God not only exists but likes me more than everybody else. As I grew up, I "tested" the theory a few times, but never with any scientific rigor, and I think I'd have to call the results positive but not statistically significant. I have no problem assuming no god at the beginning of a discussion, and if I had strong enough evidence I'd like to think I'd admit I'm wrong. I also don't correlate anything about God with misunderstanding what "death" means - or as many Catholics call it life after death.

I know it's a minority view here and would never trot it out in normal discourse, but it seemed appropriate for the venue.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 March 2014 02:36:17AM 3 points [-]

I figured what I called God not only exists but likes me more than everybody else.

That's impossible, He likes me more than everybody else. (.000001% confident)

(Seriously though, I do believe there are god-like phenomena, and they seem to be suspiciously favorable toward me. (Excuse me while I knock on wood and stare plaintively at the fourth wall.))