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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted mujtaba shah

      They do understand that. They just don't think this makes God real. Why is this hard?https://twitter.com/pickledwords/status/884762809665544192 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      mujtaba shah @pickledwords
      Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that? | The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/05/humans-hunger-for-the-sacred-why-cant-the-new-atheists-understand-that/ …
      7 replies 19 retweets 67 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Very confused argument. People still found things meaningful & essential to them under communist regimes so the idea we're animals is wrong.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Could be that we're animals who find things meaningful & essential? Just a thought.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Objects to 'nothing but'. Sees 'We're nothing but a species of animal' as diminishing but 'We're nothing but creations of a God' ennobling

      1 reply 3 retweets 7 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Says much more about how the writer wants to see himself than what actually does constitute human worth.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      This is common error. If someone sees own value as inherent to their belief system, they imagine ppl without it see themselves as valueless

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      If they see 'sacred' - meaningful, moving, essential values - in distinctly religious terms, imagine non-religious to not have any.

      2 replies 2 retweets 8 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017

      No.pic.twitter.com/PVaHSbf6oo

      2:07 AM - 12 Jul 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I really want to move on from these repeated arguments abt what atheism/scepticism/rationalism/empiricism etc do & don't mean ...

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          ...in relation to religion, faith, meaning, morality, worldviews, philosophy etc. We've been having them for too long.

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          But it's hard when people refuse to stop being so very wrong about it. Best I can do is not look for these arguments.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Since reading Everybody is Wrong about God, I can't have these old 'debates' without imagining @GodDoesnt looking at my tweets like this:pic.twitter.com/9DlgRTvIiI

          4 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt

          However, he looks at everything like that so I don't let it bother me too much. ;-)

          0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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        2. Not-A-Nation Ball  🇧🇪‏ @MrBelgiumBall 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          What do you mean if you say that the probability of your existence is tiny?

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @MrBelgiumBall

          What I said there. The chances of me personally existing. All my ancestors surviving, mating, at that exact time with those exact mates/

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Not-A-Nation Ball  🇧🇪‏ @MrBelgiumBall 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Yeah, I'm probably thinking too much into it, but... 1) I'm a determinist so I believe that your existence IS inevitable.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @MrBelgiumBall

          My parents had to meet? Theirs did? They had to have sex on the day they did? Their ancestors had to survive the plague etc?

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        6. Not-A-Nation Ball  🇧🇪‏ @MrBelgiumBall 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Your parents HAD to meet etc. But this is getting philosophical. I don't think I can easily convince you of my viewpoint and vice versa.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Tamara Brouwer‏ @TamaraBrouwer1 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You have a way with words. 😏

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        1. nevynxxx‏ @nevynxxx 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I *think* it's safe to argue that "an ice age" should be "ice ages".... But other that that. I love this argument.

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        1. V ⚡️‏ @v4awesome 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ReginaD83

          There's definitely quite a lot of wonder in life, the universe & existence itself. Religions have no monopoly on that.

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        1. Mike‏ @citation_needed 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/83303-we-are-going-to-die-and-that-makes-us-the …

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        2. Pam Gillespie  🐼 😎 🐒‏ @arctichamster 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You describe us beautifully, Helen. The pious can't grasp that we have access to all they have — and more, because we know how we're all 1/

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        3. Pam Gillespie  🐼 😎 🐒‏ @arctichamster 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @arctichamster @HPluckrose

          interconnected: The earth and sea; fish, plants, and animals; and the sun and stars…they all course through our veins and fill our lungs. 2/

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        4. Pam Gillespie  🐼 😎 🐒‏ @arctichamster 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @arctichamster @HPluckrose

          And yet, *we're* made out to be the bad guys for understanding that one doesn't have to 'believe' in god to have morals and ethics. 3/

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Pam Gillespie  🐼 😎 🐒‏ @arctichamster 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @arctichamster @HPluckrose

          (I'd argue that it's better NOT to believe, since if one feels they need that belief for the M/E, one never had them in the first place) 4/4

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        1. André de Meij‏ @andre_de_pandre 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1

          You are right We all are our own God But most people are too scared to accept that

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        1. Paddy Whelan‏ @PWhel1859 12 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          pic.twitter.com/f9eV2l8YVF

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