i suppose...but it's not technically a statistic when the numbers involved are completely fictional...
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Mael is right- "nine out of ten" was a figure of speech. And despite the name of this thread, please note that my comment related to ALL religions- my own included- and not just Christianity.
Mael is also right about the nature of statistics, especially on sensitive subjects like religion. How accurate can they be and how honestly have they been applied? My last post quoted Mark Twain, who was talking about the three different kinds of lie, and frankly, I think he was on to something. |
thats why I don't beleive in religion. I beleive in myself, thats it. But sometimes I do find myself saying a prayer or something just because people around me are. Gotta fix that.
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it wasn't twain. it was benjamin disraeli. But that's not the point. my overblown reaction to your figure of speech was to show just how meaningless and sneaky the use of such figures are. If you don't have data to back it, you have a completely unrepresentative sample size that means nothing. Using that statistic despite that is deceptive, pure and simple. And you dog religion for not caring about the Truth? Please...
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...that reminds me...
Mojo_PeiPei I'm still waiting on Einstein's proof of the existence of a soul. After all, he believed in God right? |
Jeff GoldBlum said it in Powder!!!
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http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/einstein.htm
Basically what that says and what I misinterpreted was that Einstein doesn't believe in a soul free from a body. The idea was that electricity is what operates our brains, electricity never degrades. Quote:
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Are you questioning the almighty Jeff Goldblum???
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