That’s more of a flag pole than a flag.

I threw up in my mouth a bit. Thanks.

Unrelated to self hosting: jira or whatever ticketing system your company uses. They tend to have integrations into those other apps where you right click and create a ticket. Then the ticket list is my source of truth.

All it took for John Wick was losing a dog. This lady lost more. I think the commenter thinks America is an action movie?

There’s a big difference between having no doubt, and thinking you’re infallible.

I believe if I drop something it will fall to the ground because objects with mass produce gravity. It may be that some other completely different force is at work, besides gravity. But I don’t believe that to be true. But if there is evidence that it is true, I will change my mind.

A good way to check if you believe something is to look at how you act. You see the cat, you act like. It’s a cat, you believe it’s a cat. If you see the cat, and hesitate and doubt, then you don’t believe it’s a cat. You may do some thinking and then determine it is a cat, and start believing it. And then you will act accordingly.

And that’s why funerals disprove religious belief. If people truly believed in their religion, and believed in the afterlife, funerals would be happy not sad. But they don’t believe in their religion. They hope that they’re right. But they don’t believe it.

We’ve reinvented religion

Sorry if it seems flippant, but I’ve been down this discussion before. Done the research before. And I’ve come to conclusions already taking into account what you sent. A quick Google of “what religions believe other religions are right” would get similar results.

The end result is: all religions make up their rules. It’s just people finding ways to live with other people. There’s nothing in them that isn’t explained easily by reality, or disproved easily by saying “no it isn’t”.

I used to be. I learned a lot about a lot of religions. I was seriously Catholic for 18 years. They all have a dogma that their believers don’t follow well. They’re often internally inconsistent in their rules. They don’t get us new knowledge or truth or understanding of the universe.

If you objectively look at religion and how it’s used, it seems to be a convenient way to keep sociopaths under control (threat of a punishing father figure), a way to cope with mortality, and a way to funnel money and accomplish social goals. They had interesting uses in the past as forms of local government and keeping people from killing each other. They’re often used by horrible people to enhance their power and abuse others.

But today what’s the point? Get a hobby, join a club, follow the laws, and accept that death is the end.

A realists accountability is to reproducibility and observability.

But if you can believe anything, and that makes you happy, then good. I personally believe red is green and drive how I like. Sure I’ve killed a few people, but that’s in reality so I don’t believe it.

So Hindu believe that the alien worshipping death cult that thinks all Hindu should die is as true as their own religion? That doesn’t seem right.

If you can believe that, then you can believe anything, and you’re one good conversation away from being manipulated and used.

Citation needed

If there is uncertainty, there is not belief. There is hope.

If you believe that, then you believe you do not actually know the truth. But only an interpretation of what might be true.

I think you’ve just talked yourself into a circle. You can’t both believe something and doubt it. Doubt is the opposite of belief.

What you’re talking about is possibly belief in belief. That’s the belief that you should believe, or belief that you do believe. That is not the same as actual belief.

You can respect someone and still think they’re wrong. Just like I respect you right now.

But if you truly believe in your religion, then you must believe that other religions aren’t right.

And that’s why you shouldn’t.

It’s very common. There’s a whole series of shows about it.

I think the show is fairly popular, there’s lots of episodes, but I only ever watch the first 2 minutes or so.

How do you grow an anarchist?