The Truth Process

Imagine you wake up in an enormous cavern that is deep underground that seems to extend on forever in every direction with a river that runs through the center of the cavern which comes from a hole in the rock and exits through a hole in the rock. There is also a large pool. Glowing edible fungus provides subsistence and light sufficient to see in dim shades of gray. You have no memory of any other condition besides than the one that you are now in. As you wander around you meet many people who have different perspectives about life here. You also discover that almost everywhere there are books that talk about a place some call: "The great expanse". They talk the great expanse being full of strange plants, bright light and things appearing in alternate shades besides gray (which didn't really even make sense, since you have no concept of color). Some of it sounds very odd and incomprehensible. A large group of people are actively digging upward to try to get to t...

Several years ago my best friend from childhood became an atheist. He referred me to an atheist speaker that had strongly influenced him. I watched a youtube video by the said atheist speaker. As I watched the atheists presentation, I noticed that he was very influential through the use of many persuasive methods involving logical fallacies. I see these methods absorbed and then perpetuated by other atheists, so I will identify a few. It's kind of like the "sales methods of the atheists". (Religious people also have methods, but that can be a post for another date). Association; One way to make something look false, is to associate it with things which are already obviously false. This can be done through making sweeping generalizations or grouping things all together that dont belong together. One way that this may be done is to utilize the logical fallacy called "Either/or": This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it to only tw...