Why Are Christians Afraid To Doubt?

Well said Nator.You did for yourself what I teach in my sessions.If everyone could do what you have done I would be out of a job and a lot more people would lead a lot better lives.

Well, yes, I certainly do.Thats the foundation of building trust. You trust that someone will act in a way they perport to.Following multiple examples of congruous behaviour we can be confident we can predict the behaviour of a trusted individual to an acceptable level of certainty.I trust my friends because they have acted in a demonstrably concistant manner towards me. One is asked to trust without any demonstration of the trust worthyness of a god or religion.

And a good thing, too! Event though I don't counsel, I certainly would point out the existance of 'unhealthy thoughts' to all of my patients. We don't need examples. We need to do what we need to do achieve what we want: as Nator did so well.

Seems to me he/she is good at putting you at ease. This is a good tool to have for engendering trust.But it does high light that feeling at ease is different to trust.Now I'm going home to get pasted Edited by Larni, :

You are quite wrong.Your brain uses a funtion called Optic Tau:Optic Tau is r(x)=x/zThe ratio of distance -x to approach velocity z gives a first oder approximation on contact.All seeing creatures use this equation from flies to herring guls to humans throwing and catching.It is a mathematical proccess of cognition that occures in the time it takes (using a throw and catch analogy) only the time it takes for the ball to reach it's arc apex.From here you can catch it blind if you practice (I know I'v done it).By then your brain has done the maths to catch the ball.It is not intuition, it is very rappid cognitive process using physics and extrapolation of tragectories and velocities.All very logic based.

True, but you must learn to connect what you see with your actions. If you have never used the actions to catch you will be very bad at it. This is in fact true; can you remember not being able to think in words? Conditioning is not thinking, though is it? It is; in the same way that in school, when you do an exam you are told to 'show your working' and justify how you arrived at your answer. Thats how we can tell we are not just pulling answers out of thin air.If we cannot 'show our working' we could have any old answer written down. To commit a logical fallacy is to go against logic. Logic has not failed, the user has failed.But this does not always imply intent, sometimes it is ignorance.

You are right, it is not a tool to guarentee perfect results: nothing can.'Intuition' is so prone to error it's not even funny. If an answer is based on intuition all kinds of bias (observer bias for starters) will creep in and confound ones conclusions.

But that possibility is vanishingly small and getting smaller every day. This is because we know so much more about the world since we stopped saying 'goddidit'. We learnt to doubt what we were taught and found conscistantly and increasingly more accurate answers.

But that possibility is vanishingly small and getting smaller every day. This is because we know so much more about the world since we stopped saying 'goddidit'. We learnt to doubt what we were taught and found conscistantly and increasingly more accurate answers.

They were delusional. I'v met people who believe they have to keep their hand on their head at all times or their head will fall off.I'v met people who attempted suicide because of what they believed was true.We've all read about cults who do kill themselves because of what they believe to be true.And it's all bollocks you know.It's all a brain malfunction, an attribution error and an inability to disconfirm erroneous perceptual information.Why do you think paranoid schizophrenics sincerely beleive they are being victimised? Are they right?No, they are not.The brain can do some wonderful things but it can also fuck up in a catastrophic, terminal way; I present your martrys.