Zeej

• Zeej 19 Jun 2012 6:09 UTC

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  in reply to: Jay_Schweikert’s comment on: Thwart­ing a Catholic con­ver­sion?

  I also noticed her persistent engagement with arguments against homosexuality itself, for a duration that seemed far out of proportion to the strength of these arguments and the attention they should merit. Given that the most she now says about Catholic teachings on homosexuality is that she’s “confused” by them, I almost have to wonder if her extended search for any plausible arguments against homosexuality was actually just a way to make the open leap to Catholicism feel more palatable from her perspective.

• Zeej 14 Feb 2012 3:41 UTC

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  in reply to: thomblake’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2012

  Done.

• Zeej 13 Feb 2012 18:35 UTC

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  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2012

  Title should read: “Making Stuff Up Is Easy, Overcoming Cognitive Biases and Discovering How Things Really Work Is Difficult: An Exercise in the Obvious”

  Reddit user sciencecomic, in response to a headline reading “‘Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not’. Emory philosopher Robert McCauley suggests that science is more fragile than we think while religion more resilient – all for reasons coming back to humans’ cognitive processes.”