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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
"Personally, I believe in the subjective existence of God. That seems strongly supportable by a mass of evidence, and it seems to be trainable and at least partially repeatable." And I believe in the existence of hallucinations brought on by...
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Commented on A Bad Dream
Not a problem. That's not ML, that's search. And it's not even a chaotic google search, but a search through the well-organized database of all the information they've collected on you. The point of the current NSA programs isn't to...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
I like yours. But mine was more succinct....
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
I fear only our good host's high busy-ness factor is allowing us to stray so far from topic. But as I am, well, me: That's one enormous conceptual space you are asking "faith" to cover, Heteromeles. It seems to me...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
Heteromeles. I think you are using "faith" in at least two different versions here. The defining feature of the form of faith that a judeo-christian believer is encouraged to have by the central organizations of his religion is that it...