Unhelpful

While in IRC, our friend Grogan linked a site I’d read a little of in the past, but a video I hadn’t seen or at least hadn’t remembered. God is imaginary is one of a few sites devoted to atheism and rational thought that rejects metaphysics, but also concentrates on talking to Christians rather than at or about them. It spends most of its energy making intelligent, rational arguments about the logical inconsistencies of faith generally, and Christianity specifically.

The technique the site uses is to take some basic precepts and to see where they lead if rationally and logically applied in the form of thought experiments. This reminded me of a thought experiment I’ve thought about for a long time. It’s original to me in the sense that I didn’t read it anywhere, but I have absolute certainty that other people have independently come up with it, and have probably written it down better than I have.

The subject is not religion, but rather, a different area of metaphysics.

I have a friend, whom I will refer to as Steve, who is very “open-minded” to concepts such as ghost hauntings, alien visitations, government coverups of alien crashes, and other issues which can fairly be described as pseudoscience. Read more »