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I don't think I suggested that, I suggested it can't exist in someone with no centre.
And I think you're describing something that can't exist and is therefore meaningless.
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Youre misunderstanding me here, you can pick to be muslim in a non muslim country, you will likely be subject to prejudice and violence. But you get left alone a lot more than if you choose to pick 'no source' as your belief.
You think your choices are really yours? In part they're informed by your own confirmation biases and your cultural influences, your genes, the availability of what there is to choose. I doubt there's any such thing as a genuinely unbiased, uninfluenced choice.
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Do we have these things?
Of course we do, you think we don't?
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Did you think I suggested the general public is not biased?
I'm talking about how people exploit our tendency to confirm what we'd like to believe. Marketing companies use it, politicians use it, newspapers and other media publications use it, religions use it.
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No, your conditioning has taught you to reject the concept with no further inquiry.
What conditioning? If I have the choice, as you suggest, then how I can I be conditioned to avoid using it too?