Programmable Gods

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[Hax Templar]

One of my peeves is that I don't feel as if adequate forms of reasoning are taught today.  When I was young or in college I was a liberal.  By the time I came out of law school I was largely set onto the path of being a conservative.  I use these terms loosely of course because they tend to be oversimplified and politicized but I'm sure you guys know what I mean.

My change after going through law school was, more than anything else, that I learned a different method of reasoning by the time I was done.  This is very vague but I think that good forms of reasoning seem to naturally draw people towards the idea of "God" which itself can be very malleable but is also a natural conclusion to draw after a person begins to cognitively organize their view of the universe.  Modern liberal reasoning seems to be built from the ground up to dispense with the suppositions of God, the existence of the soul (a belief that itself changes everything about someone's legal and political beliefs, should they hold it) etc.  The problem with this non-supposition is that it replaces God with a bunch of incorrect suppositions that are meant to direct someone away from selfishness despite the lack of any supernatural element.  I'm writing a book that somewhat addresses all of this.

Regarding proving that God exists/should exist/must rationally exist and the fact that no one would care, what it comes down to is that people are not rational.  I've rationally explained to people that being so liberal that you don't have children is irrational, they agree with me if they have to, it doesn't change what they do.  It must be concluded that they want to be irrational, or that they are fundamentally irrational beings.

I think more than anything else a person needs to know that it's all right to factor "God" into their reasoning because as some people have mused, God is reason.  To deliberately try and avoid God and all conceptions of a "deliberately" ordered universe during your reasoning is basically to try and avoid a characteristic of good reasoning.

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[Hax Templar]

Yeah, that is a lot like what I have been trying to say only much better.  Hopefully I can get into one of your bible readings over Skype :)

Relatedly, they tend to retest things they don't like, over and over again, until the weight of their bloated research begins to resist review and drowns out the original results.  There was a study recently which found that a shocking number of psychological experiments aren't reproducible: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delivers-bleak-verdict-on-validity-of-psychology-experiment-results