Speakpigeon
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- Joined
- Feb 4, 2009
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- Paris, France, EU
- Basic Beliefs
- Rationality (i.e. facts + logic), Scepticism (not just about God but also everything beyond my subjective experience)
Still looking for a definition of "dogma". You say they are motivated by something. You talk about what dogmas seem to be when people talk about them. You talk about how dogmas are usually thought of. Then you say where the word allegedly comes from. Then you say that the dogmas some think about today are " the socially generalised equivalent of our personal, individual beliefs". This is incoherent. We do have individual beliefs. Like the belief that might does not make right. Is this a dogma? There is no way to know from what you have said. You do not define the term with that mushy incoherence. "Socially generalized equivalent"? Mathematical equivalence? What the hell are you talking about?
You have a medical condition characterised by your incapacity to infer meaning beyond a literal interpretation of what posters say. You ask people to abide by a standard of explicitness you don't bother to even attempt yourself. You are invariably inarticulate yet you complain that I didn't provide a complete analysis of the notion of dogma. What are you even doing here? You think it's MIT? You couldn't do yourself what you think I didn't do and you don't even try it. There is a massive discrepancy between your constantly "demanding" attitude and the continuous mediocrity of your posts. You're the perfect idiot challenging Einstein to explain why he said "y".
EB