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All #Religions Can’t Be Right, But They Could All Be Wrong!

What if your religion isn’t the one true path, but just the one you happened to be born into? When every religion claims to be the truth, but they contradict each other, what does that say about the whole system? This is where #doubt begins and honest #thinking starts.

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#atheist #sacred #atheism #christianity #myths

Thinking, she found, was not something you could seamlessly multi-task. While it was true that she could think while washing dishes, weeding the garden, or even driving, it wasn't as easily done while scrolling through a screen or, God help the world, watching TV.

She did her best thinking, her deepest thinking, when she focused on it.

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Gizmodo: Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons. “For the second time in two weeks, a study has been published that suggests that people who use AI regularly may display significantly less cognitive ability than those who don’t rely on it. The studies have bolstered critics’ accusations that AI makes you stupid.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/gizmodo-multiple-studies-now-suggest-that-ai-will-make-us-morons/

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A quotation from Joseph Joubert

When we think what we do not feel, we lie to ourselves. We must always think with our whole being, soul and body.
 
[Penser ce que l’on ne sent pas, c’est mentir à soi-même. Tout ce qu’on pense, il faut le penser avec son être tout entier, âme et corps.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 9 “De la Sagesse, de la Vertu, etc. [On Wisdom and Virtue],” ¶ 52, 1798 entry (1850 ed.) [tr. Collins (1928), ch. 8]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/77134…

404 Media: ChatGPT May Be Linked to ‘Cognitive Debt,’ New Study Finds. “ChatGPT may hinder creativity and learning skills in students who use it to write essays, relative to those who didn’t, according to an exhaustive new preprint study posted on arXiv. This research has yet not been peer-reviewed, and has a relatively small sample size of 54 subjects, but it still contributes to rising […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/404-media-chatgpt-may-be-linked-to-cognitive-debt-new-study-finds/

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PsyPost: Too much ChatGPT? Study ties AI reliance to lower grades and motivation. “A study published in the journal Education and Information Technologies finds that students who are more conscientious tend to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT less frequently, and that using such tools for academic tasks is associated with lower self-efficacy, worse academic performance, and greater […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/psypost-too-much-chatgpt-study-ties-ai-reliance-to-lower-grades-and-motivation/

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