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Tag Archives: belief
The Rationality of Large Numbers
This is a huge topic – I will not be able to cover it in a single post, not even in just a few posts. What I want to do here and now is to introduce the topic, and to … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertising, belief, beliefs, brand, branding, brands, Facebook, Google, Gustav Le Bon, impression, impressionability, impressions, influence, Law of large numbers, manipulation, marketing, myth, mythology, propaganda, rational media, rationality, religion, repitition, science, scientific method, statistics, success, successful
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Dumb
If you believe something to be true, but do not assert your belief, then you are probably dumb. 😉 Continue reading
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Tagged assert, assertion, assertions, assertive, belief, beliefs, believe, believing, communicate, communicating, communication, communications, communicative, dumb, evidence, evident, express, fact, facts, false, falsehood, hypotheses, hypothesis, language, method, methodology, methods, natural, nature, outspoken, public, publicity, science, scientific, scientific method, speak, speak out, state, statement, statements, test, testing, theoretical, theories, theory, true, truth
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Is the way people are just the way they are, rather than being “wrong”?
A good friend asked me this, and I appreciate that honest feedback very much. My answer: No. People make mistakes. There is nothing special about humans — whether they are acting religiously or whether they are fanatical about following some … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, algorithm, algorithms, belief, beliefs, faith, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy, literate, propaganda, religion, religions, religious, retard media, right, wrong
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Why people used to go to church + why they now go to Google + Facebook instead
In case you haven’t seen them yet, check out Part 1 and Part 2. For many years, I have maintained that Google is something like the Pope of the Internet: Google’s index functions quite similarly to what used to be … Continue reading →
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Tagged belief, beliefs, censorship, community, engagement, exclusive, gossip, loyalty, propaganda, publishing, religion, retard media, social media, true, truth
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The Pope of the Internet
Although it seems as though there are quite a few people who say they are atheists, in fact most people do believe in something. Most illiterate people (the ones who are more or less stuck using retard media) believe in … Continue reading →
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Tagged belief, beliefs, church, churches, confess, confession, confessions, faith, Google, illiterate, inquisition, literacy, literate, mainstream media, mass media, pay, payment, propaganda, religion, retard media, sin, sins, store, stores, transgression, transgressions, witch, witches
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Irrefutable failure of a prophecy does not cause true believers — people who have committed themselves to a belief both emotionally and by their life choices — to reconsider
Paul Krugman makes an astute observation: Back in the 1950s three social psychologists joined a cult that was predicting the imminent end of the world. Their purpose was to observe the cultists’ response when the world did not, in fact, … Continue reading →
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Tagged belief, believer, believers, debt, fail, fails, failure, Google, interest rate, interest rates, Internet, Pope, results, right, true believer, true believers, web, World-Wide Web, wrong
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