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RAZD
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11-25-2014 1:44 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Taq
11-25-2014 12:19 PM

Re: Hindsight Bias
Outside of books and Jedi films, when people use the phrase "Mr. Smith was destined for that" they are always talking about past events. They are looking back and claiming that they knew all along that Occurence X was going to to happen to Mr. Smith.
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Always picking on Smiths ... it's like our destiny ...
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There are other problems ... like the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy and the problem of self-contradiction:
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Message 1: Destiny, I believe, exists. But I also believe strongly that not everyone fulfills their destinies.
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So for some people their destiny is to not fulfill their destiny ... which they fulfill by not fulfilling it ...
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RAZD
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11-26-2014 4:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 46 by bee
11-26-2014 12:28 PM

bad start
I use the word Destiny as a substitute for the word Purpose.
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I'm not talking about Clairvoyance or Fortune. I'm talking about a path that one chooses.
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I should have made that very clear in the beginning. I apologize..
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So we have over 40 messages on this thread based on a mistaken use of words to mean something that they don't mean in normal usage.
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Amusing, but not a good start.
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