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Author Topic:   Born believers: How your brain creates God
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Message 50 of 74 (907825)
02-28-2023 5:19 PM
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02-28-2023 5:12 PM


Re: Ex Believers: Why Did You Quit?
Phat writes:
ExZBelievers: Why Did You Quit?
I watched an interesting video that suggested certain personality types are more likely to leave the church than others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejfuTNov7Y
I left the church, and wouldn't you know it, I have one of the two most common personality types for those who leave the church. Interesting stuff.

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Message 55 of 74 (907870)
03-01-2023 11:17 AM
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Re: Ex Believers: Why Did You Quit?
Phat writes:
I think I was an IIFJ. I know that I was FJ, at least.
Interesting. I am an ISTP, for whatever it counts for. That's one of the two types most strongly associated with atheists. As the youtuber mentions, these aren't black and white correlations, but I do think there is some interesting stuff in the analysis.

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Message 57 of 74 (907887)
03-01-2023 1:29 PM
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03-01-2023 1:25 PM


Re: Ex Believers: Why Did You Quit?
PaulK writes:
Myers-Briggs is at best a blunt instrument.
I would agree. I tend to trust the social sciences as far as I can throw them. However, it is an interesting correlation from a science-adjacent point of view.

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Message 62 of 74 (907929)
03-02-2023 11:19 AM
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03-02-2023 9:42 AM


Re: Exploring Thinking Taqtics
Phat writes:
Are the social sciences scientific?
They can be. However, a lot of what I see is based on non-empirical data.
What criteria is/are required by you personally before you trust someone or something?
Criteria includes the risk involved in trusting someone, past experiences with the person, and the evidence at hand.
Does one simply trust what they prefer?
That would be a human bias that we all suffer from, but I try to base my decisions on objective evidence as much as possible.

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Message 67 of 74 (907939)
03-02-2023 4:04 PM
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03-02-2023 2:22 PM


Re: Social Sciences
Phat writes:
And how would one go about measuring a claim of being "Born Again"?
You can't measure it in a scientific sense which is why the social sciences are described as science-ish. The best you can do is record how many people self report as being born again.
2) (ringos method) Check and see if the believer has given it all away.
That would probably be a study on cognitive dissonance where you look to see how many people say they live their lives by Christian values and compare that to the values described in the New Testament.

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