Illogic
I sometimes joke about my city and state, Perth, Western Australia:
If it is useless land, call it a park. If it is good arable land, build houses all over it. If they live north of the river, give them a job south of the river. If they live south of the river, give them a job north of the river. Build a railway to Mandurah that does not go to Mandurah. Build a railway to Mandurah, but not to the airport.
I was trained as an engineer at Imperial College, London. Illogic frustrates me. Yet it appears that the brain is capable of illogic.
I am in Toronto Airport. They ask you to turn up hours early. At the entrance at the airport station, the ‘Departures’ board only has the schedule for the the next two hours. You cannot say anything as ‘Cancel Culture’ kicks in and you are prone to be seen as a ‘problem citizen’.
I caught the train from Vancouver to Toronto. It is a four day trip. The train had nineteen-fifties carriages that were immaculately restored. Downstairs, there is a booth with somebody sitting selling vending-machine food. There was very little on the menu that was nutritious nor appetizing. Items pulled from the freezer had a tendency to be cold in the centre after re-heat.
This first image is not an example of illogic but an example of an illogical deduction. The brain automatically assumes that there is a knob on the furthest pillar. This is an inappropriate assumption. There is clearly no knob on the furthest pillar. I put it here to show that your brain can make illogical conclusions.
I give you a series of images to check that your brain can detect illogic. The next is a statement by Hillary Clinton in a speech.
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Hillary Clinton 1998-11-17 El Salvador.
If your grandmother has balls, she is a actually your grandfather!!
Reminds me of the VW Beetle with a radiator overheating.
Somebody stole the catalytic converter from my Tesla.
The next person is required to wear a mask and is complying with the rule!
I was staying at a hostel in Bali, Indonesia. They had a swimming pool. The Western people were lying out in the sun to turn themselves brown. The Asians were sitting next to the pool with sunshades to prevent themselves turning brown.
I took a large group of teens and youth in their twenties to an open-air music event. I had a pot of sunscreen. The only ones that wanted the sunscreen were the dark skinned youth. They said: “We don’t want to get any blacker.”
Here is a comment on the topic by an Indian.
The perception of beauty in India can be seen as a major issue by looking at the obsession of Indians with fairness creams. One way or the other, the idea of a fairer skin is seen on top of the ‘beauty hierarchy’. While this perception has roots from the colonial times, it still exists inside the minds of a major chunk of population in India. This seems even more strange because the Western countries have Tanning Studios which people happily pay for so that they could enjoy darker shades on their skins. Moreover, the idea of sunbathing is to enjoy that tanned skin.
The next image is girl is patiently waiting!
If women were equal to men there would be no women’s sports!
How women aim for a good man!
Politicians voting for war!
Guilt!
A heinous crime!
Weird!
This next image is to test if you are susceptible to suggestion. It is called the ‘Kuleshov Effect’. The Kuleshov effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
Kuleshov edited a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots (a bowl of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine’s face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was “looking at” the bowl of soup, the girl in the coffin, or the woman on the divan, showing an expression of hunger, grief, or desire, respectively. The footage of Mosjoukine was actually the same shot each time. Vsevolod Pudovkin (who later claimed to have been the co-creator of the experiment) described in 1929 how the audience “raved about the acting … the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep sorrow with which he looked on the dead child, and noted the lust with which he observed the woman. But we knew that in all three cases the face was exactly the same.”[1]
Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing. The implication is that viewers brought their own emotional reactions to this sequence of images, and then moreover attributed those reactions to the actor, investing his impassive face with their own feelings. Kuleshov believed this, along with montage, had to be the basis of cinema as an independent art form.[2]
Ricky Gervais on opinions and facts:
Let us look at ‘Burdon of Proof’ as this topic has become more significant in recent times:
Here is a few more images. Please remember to monitor how each affects your thinking. Each should provoke contradictory thoughts causing a battle in your brain:
Here are some blog comments about religion:
Why is Islam not a logical religion?
slam does not allow critical thinking or analytic criticism of the Quran (i.e., content) or of Islam (e.g., Muhammad).
For example, Quran 33:36,
Mohsin Khan: It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.
or,
For example, Quran 4:65,
Mohsin Khan: But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad SAW) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission.
The Quran contains many unethical and illogical content that Muslims cannot think critically about.
For example, Quran 24:2,
Mohsin Khan: The woman and the man guilty of illegal sexual intercourse, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment. (This punishment is for unmarried persons guilty of the above crime but if married persons commit it, the punishment is to stone them to death, according to Allah’s Law).
This is why many people have been (and still are) being lashed or stoned to death in Islamic countries.
For example, Quran 5:33,
Mohsin Khan: The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.
This is why many people have been dismembered or killed or crucified in the Islamic world (e.g., Arabia, Iran).
For example, Quran 4:157–158,
Mohsin Khan: And because of their saying (in boast), “We killed Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allah,” – but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of ‘Iesa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary) ]: But Allah raised him [‘Iesa (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he is in the heavens). And Allah is Ever AllPowerful, AllWise.
The death of Jesus of Nazareth on the Roman cross is one of the best historical facts that we have regarding this man. However, Muhammad (possibly by borrowing from Gnostic communities) rejects the death of Jesus of Nazareth on the cross and says “it only appeared” that Jesus died. The Gnostic community that this story comes from believed that god who created the physical world is an evil god. That is, this Gnostic community rejected the god of Abraham. But Muslims cannot think critically about such issues.
For example, Quran 21:68, 69, 70,
Mohsin Khan: They said: “Burn him and help your aliha (gods), if you will be doing.”We (Allah) said: “O fire! Be you coolness and safety for Ibrahim (Abraham)!”And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
Muhammad heard a story about Abraham being saved from the fire and now this story is in the Quran. However, this story is based on a false translation of the Tanakh. A rabbi was translating the Torah from Hebrew to Aramaic and he confused the Hebrew word “Ur” which means fire with the Babylonian word “Ur” which means city.
Islam cannot withstand criticism nor can the character of Muhammad. This is why Islam looks down on logical thinking (not logical) when it comes to Quranic criticism. For if logical thinking was allowed in this context, Islam will come to an end.
Comment:
I honestly don’t understand it. I stopped debating followers of Islam. The headache isn’t worth it. It’s similar to arguing with someone who supports the transgender movement. I really feel bad for people that trust the Quran. I wish there was a way I could show them that it’s not logical. But those who believe it are so unlikely to change their mind. It’s very hard to convince someone that they have been fooled. The fact they trust Muhammad’s accounts of Jesus(even though he lived 600 years after Jesus) over the eye witnesses of Jesus’s life and resurrection is beyond me. Not to mention Muhammad murdered, waged 80 something wars and married and had sex with a 6 year old….this is the man that you all want to trust as your “prophet”? It’s mind blowing 😂
Not to mention anyone who supports the teachings of the Quran is so hard to understand. I always feel like I’m debating a 2nd-3rd grader. It’s probably due to English not being their first language. So i can get that…it’s just such a huge headache dealing with the illogical points and poor writing on top of it.