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Not directed at you in particular, but to everyone who unknowingly were part of my exoeriment. Just out of curiosity, so I can better understand the data, what prevented you are anyone else from simply typing "Jesus is Lord"? If you had thought about doing it for whatever reason, what prevented you?
 
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Thank you for participating in a little experiment of mine. You all can carry on now. I will leave you alone.

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What experiment? You didn't do anything. Although I'm sure you think you did.
 
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Already answered this before.
 
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Jesus is Lord.

Are you going to play at peoples' past Christianity or are you going to talk about a philosophical issue? A God would be nice, but I can't rationally justify it.
I can't see your religious affiliation but I am assuming you are an atheist of sort...is that correct. Have you always been an atheist or did you at one time considered yourself a Christian and later renounced your faith? I know it is an off topic question so you don't need to provide an answer. I am simply trying to challenge the scriptures to test it's truth and accuracy.

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Why should i type something i dont believe?
 
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I just had to bypass everything you mentioned earlier to focus on this.

Well, no you didn't. You could have addressed the entire post, seeing as the rest of the post was the important part. I'm hoping that you'll be intellectually honest enough to address the rest of the post in your next post.

And I need you to be completely honest because this is important. Are you really telling me that if Jesus Christ came down to earth and performed a miracle right before your eyes, you would still refuse to believe it?

If you saw a man on crutches approached by another man claiming to be Jesus Christ, who then "cured" the man on crutches, would you immediately believe it?

What if five minutes later you see the same scene played out with two different people? Would you believe that one?
 
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Lol. I think what might be going on is that your cognitive dissonance could be prohibiting you from believing that people can disbelieve in your god, because deep down you have your own doubts and it's frightening. It's easier to try and bolster your position by saying that everyone actually believes.

Personally, I used to be a Christian before I realized I had no good reason to believe any of it. So... no belief here.

But thanks for your (completely wrong) psychoanalysis.
 
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Why would i think about typing something i dont believe?

You shouldn't. No one should be dishonest. Certainly not about whether or not they believe in Jesus. If anyone says it (or types it) it must be an honest confession.
 
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You shouldn't. No one should be dishonest. Certainly not about whether or not they believe in Jesus. If anyone says it (or types it) it must be an honest confession.

We call that intellectual honesty.

Someone asking someone to make a statement they dont believe, would be engaging in intellectual dishonesty.
 
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You shouldn't. No one should be dishonest. Certainly not about whether or not they believe in Jesus. If anyone says it (or types it) it must be an honest confession.

i think the point is that he believes that anyone unwilling to type it actually believes deep down, because hey, if they really didn't believe they would have no other reason to not type it.

Which of course is a false dichotomy, as anyone who's posting in the Philosophy section should know...
 
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Why would i think about typing something i dont believe?
Dunno, perhaps to get me to shut up? Or figure out where I was going with the issue? Did you feel like it would be wrong to type those words?

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That is the cognitive dissonance kicking in. It causes scramble mode to ensue.
 
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Dunno, perhaps to get me to shut up? Or figure out where I was going with the issue? Did you feel like it would be wrong to type those words?

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I see no reason to type something i dont believe. And, you have failed miserably in providing one.
 
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Dunno, perhaps to get me to shut up? Or figure out where I was going with the issue? Did you feel like it would be wrong to type those words?
Shutting you up is not a good reason to be dishonest, IMO. Besides which, it is amusing seeing you stumble so spectacularly, all while thinking that you're making some profound point.
 
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