Orlando A. Borras

I am a skeptic & try to be a critical thinker. Open to evidence-led change. Driven by endless curiosity to learn. #CriticalThinking #OpenMinded

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@truthprevai677 @newstart_2024 Can you explain how you know that the material rests on the metaphysical?
What is the mechanism? I would love to know.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@grootdawid @newstart_2024 Thanks!

[aoattes @andyoattes]

Karl Popper’s, ‘Open Society and Its Enemies’ remains one of the most compelling defences of open discourse as a civilisational mechanism of error correction.

For Popper, Truth is never possessed in its entirety. It can only be understood through a logical process of criticism, disagreement, and the continual testing of ideas. A society that is capable of correcting its mistakes entirely depends upon the freedom to question prevailing assumptions and to expose falsehood through reasoned debate.

It is therefore entirely regrettable that one of the more insidious realities of our age is that certain individuals and institutions invoke the language of the open society while inverting its essential principles. Under the banner of tolerance, safety, equity or consensus, group-think, they have deliberately narrowed the range of permissible inquiry and badly damaged the very processes through which truth is discovered.

Popper understood that certainty is the enemy of progress. Indeed, a civilisation that loses its capacity for honest discourse loses its principal means of self-correction.

Once criticism is treated as heresy and dissent as a threat rather than a necessity, the foundations of the open society begin to crumble from within.

beg you to read Popper. To read @DavidDeutschOxf. To listen to and absorb the work of @ToKTeacher @naval @ConjectureInst and the many other great critical rationalists.

We ought to understand the great peril we face.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@newstart_2024 Jordan Peterson is a serious psychologist whose reputation becomes progressively more controversial the farther he ventures from psychology.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@newstart_2024 Science doesn’t need God. It needs reality. The universe doesn’t care whether the person running the experiment is Christian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or worships a toaster. If the experiment is repeatable and the evidence is sound, the result stands.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@erichovind If your disagreement doesn’t affect how you treat people, why are you constantly bringing it up? And let’s stop pretending sexual orientation is a lifestyle choice.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@erichovind Well, then shut up about already! And by the way, being gay isn’t a lifestyle.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@hookskat Congrats

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@Acyn What a sycophantic comment!

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@anchoredso37497 Those who believe and claim that this god exists are the ones with the burden of proof.
Let’s see what you got.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

Like millions of Americans, my family has been impacted by the terrible ... https://t.co/1s5lexbX4l via @YouTube

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@ChristiansSTDT They get it by not being able to debate the atheist worldview with good arguments. So they’re only recourse is to attack those of us who are non-believers.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@ReallyAmerican1 She realizes it, she just doesn’t think that voters do. I hope she is wrong on this one.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Trump's constant crowing about election "rigging" is his "Big Lie". He says he doesn't need proof...he can just see it. Now he "sees" it in California."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". And we've seen none. It's conspiracy theory stuff.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

In humanity's eternal quest for pleasure, companies found ways to monetize addiction. Historian David Courtwright called it "Limbic Capitalism" in his magnificent book "The Age of Addiction."
We give you the chapter on digital addictions, at After Babel:
https://t.co/GzjPiDjsoc

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@reaganreese_ @DailyCaller Why counter with better policies and better arguments when lying is so easy and effective.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@SteveGuest @tedcruz Whether James Talarico is masculine, feminine, tall, short, muscular, or skinny is irrelevant. The real question is whether his arguments are correct. Politics should be about evidence, ideas, and policy, not playground judgments about who looks tougher.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

@atrupar Whether James Talarico is masculine, feminine, tall, short, muscular, or skinny is irrelevant. The real question is whether his arguments are correct. Politics should be about evidence, ideas, and policy, not playground judgments about who looks tougher.

[Orlando A. Borras @oborras]

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