I wish I had a sign that I could walk around with and hold up every time its relevant; I find this quote very often relevant in conversation.
Thanks noway. I've been using the quote this week at the bottom of my email. No one has commented so far. I could argue that the truth totally cares about our feelings, that the truth only wants what's best for us, and that it is good for us to can face it unblinking, or as Kurasawa says, "To be an artist is to never avert one's eyes." So, what does the truth want. Is the truth the fox, the hens, or the eggs?
Sounds like a sloppy rewriting of Richard Carrier's "Proving History: Bayes' Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus." While I only did a quick search this is the only reference I can find about using Bayes Theorem to analyze history. Besides my hatred some people making everything a technocratic or statistical problem, the use of Bayes just seems conveniently trendy.
This whole article is a boring, tired, and dry point. Of course these things aren't real by any step of logical observation. Of course the truth doesn't give a shit about how we feel. It does not matter. The people who believe have faith. It's not supposed to be built on sense or their own doubts. They believe these things for one reason or another, and that's where it ends, perhaps willfully aware of the contradictions. Those who truly believe it and are driven away by the lack of evidence will be without constantly berating them, and those who aren't won't. It's pointless going at it over and over again.