>“It is a general propensity of human nature to give credit to miraculous accounts, particularly among nations that are ignorant or barbarous; in these societies, extraordinary events are often recorded and celebrated because of the lack of rational scrutiny and the high value placed on the marvelous.”I want to clarify that what mister Hume meant by this is actually that, if you believe miracles really took place, you are an 80 IQ camel-piss drinking inbred sandnigger and should stick to activities more appropriate to your intellectual faculties.
Miracles happen every day in the small things. It’s a miracle any of us are breathing, and you should be thankful for that.
>>18006338Miracles are supernatural by definition. Use of the word in any other context is analogical.
>>18006338Explain how that's a miracle.
>>18006267This fag looks like he was part of the "Enlightenment", which set us down the path to inventing nukes, fascism, communism, and liberalism, as well as a suicidal culture of despair and hedonism gripping all the occidental nations and others besides.Why should I care about his opinion?
>>18006613he should not be breathing but he still does.
>>18006267>t. fat pretentious idiot
>>18006267>extraordinary events are often recorded and celebrated because of the lack of rational scrutiny and the high value placed on the marvelous.”Extraordinary events are accepted even by more modern and rational scholars, they just don't give it a spiritual cause.Plot armor is a phenomenon so widespread in history as religious experiences, and they cannot be explained by materialist takes.
>>18006338That isn't a miracle by any definition or standard. OP is right about you literal subhumans.>>18006267>you are an 80 IQ camel-piss drinking inbred sandnigger and should stick to activities more appropriate to your intellectual faculties.
>>18006267David "Enlightened chud" Hume>>18006338Yeah considering i strangled my ex girlfriend once.
>>18006622>"this fag">he doesn't know
>>18007110>plot armor Low % chance occurrence is not miraculous lmao. If you have a disease that only in a million people do you wouldn't say evil pixies did it to you just because it's very unlikely for you to have it.
>>18007128>Low % chance occurrence is not miraculous lmaoConsidering how widespread this phenomenon is, and the fact that it follows a pattern and is not random (it happens mostly to people who have specific religious values) it is actually good evidence for theism.In the same period it did happen to such people as Frederick the Great, George Washington and Thomas Paine.Here is an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg
>>18006338lol thisatheists are like "a planet like Earth has 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of occurring naturally and that means we aren't special and God is not real" while a theist, or just a spiritual person thinks this makes us extremely special and our lives a mircale>b-b-b-but muh aliens existing PROVES we aren't special and gOD not real!no, this just means the opposite yet again
>>18007136There's been bacteria on Mars nigga. You have to dial the cope-o-meter up another level but it's already on max unfortunately.
>>18007142Just like your mother's vagina but nobody cares about that.
>>18007142So? Ah, you're one of those fedoras
>>18007162Of course I am. Where do you think you are?
>>18007166it's curious how fedoras demand open-mindedness from theists yet are close-minded to "wrong" opinions
>>18007136The rarity of something doesn't make it inherently special; that is a subjectuve judgement
>>18007184and what is "inherently special" according to you?
>>18007178That is not true at all. If you could prove any of your claims I would believe them.
>>18007188prove to me we aren't inherently special as a species
>>18006267All jokes aside, the idea that rationalism is the correct worldview cannot be demonstrated, so there is simply no reason to assume that what Hume is saying actually matters. Humans are, at their core, irrational. Trying to fight against this is like trying to swim against the current of the Niagara falls. Being religious is not denying that you are irrational, it is embracing that you are irrational. The rationalists, on the other hand, are merely LARPers, barbarous apes who merely pretend to be sophisticated and intellectual, but are only scarcely more rational than the most superstitious peasant. You cannot suck the emotional and spiritual nature out of a human being. That's why they are humans, not robots.
>>18007189That's not how it works bud.
>>18007190You do realize Hume was probably the single greatest critic of Rationalism, right?
>>18007200Yes, it does. Unless you imply atheistic rationalism is purely contrarian and cannot stand on its own legs, becoming just a parasitic entity that only goes "BUT WHAT ABOUT" and "I TOLD YOU SO" while latched on the jugular artery of whatever is the dominant philosophy of the time. Trick statement: that's exactly what atheistic rationalism is. It offers nothing but criticism.
>>18007201It doesn't matter, because obviously OP is a rationalist appropriating Hume's words in order to support a rationalist point of view.
>>18007208Where are you getting that idea from? Empiricism is the basis of moden science.
>>18006267>, if you believe miracles really took place, you are an 80 IQ camel-piss drinking inbred sandniggershalom
>>18007214>Empiricism is the basis of moden science.No it's not, and there is no such thing as "modern science". Science was and is simply a method of investigation, but if you take a look at the scientific method, which you should have done in elementary school, you will see that empiricism does not feature. You might say that empiricism was central to the Enlightenment, and you might say that most scientists have empiricist views, but you cannot say that empiricism is the basis for science, because empiricism is merely a philosophical view separate from science itself.
>>18007239The scientific method is fundamentally empiricist in nature, what are you on about?
