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  • Ok, now I've clarified what beliefs you think some people assume without evidence, I would still say that believing those things isn't right. You should still have a good reason for believing what you believe, and taking the existence of a conscious creator as given is invalid.

  • So if I'm understanding you correctly it's not just that people believe the universe was created by something, but they have a specific idea of what that thing is - eg a conscious, powerful, morally good, knowledgeable being

  • So can I clarify that when you're saying

    Some people take the existence of god as a brute fact

    That you mean

    Some people assume that universe was created by something

    ?

  • The world is a terrible place.

    The world is the best place it's ever been.

    The world could be much better.

    Reference

  • I don't know who has avatars as I'm on Voyager and can't see them 🤔

  • Ok, let's take a step backwards. How are you defining 'god'?

  • Maybe a god's existence is a core belief for some people, but it shouldn't be. There shouldn't be anything you believe without a logical reason to.

  • What books are they? It's possible you could find them on one of the sites linked on fmhy.net

  • That may be true. But that's also just an appeal to authority. What's more relevant is that they're unethical. What if international law said they were ok, would you also think they're ok?

  • On Voyager I can't even see avatars or custom usernames

  • They're making it legal. But law != morality.

  • Aren't you happy?

    All you people who said "Let's fix our problems here on Earth before travelling into space"?

    You'd rather Elon Musk controls space than a government elected by the people?

  • At least 16 is age of consent :p

  • Believing in something seems to imply thinking something to be true without having evidence for it - otherwise it would be knowledge, a justified true belief. So I know a couple things, like that I exist as a conscious being, and have practical empirical knowledge of the rest of the sensory world too.

  • ABBA, C418, Green Day, Queen

  • Til cannabis growing requires as much electricity as a server farm

  • You think pictures of children is porn? If that's the case, you maybe the one with the problem. There is nothing sexual in the image you linked.

  • No single source. I like how Verity collates the facts and the spins from multiple sources across the web.

  • Doesn't he also objectify women?