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Infants on Thrones

Ep 129 – Brother Jack – Confirmation Bias

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Move over Brother Jake — there’s a new Sheriff in town!  (with a slightly lower register) You can watch the Eyring video Brother Jack talks about here: http://youtu.be/ekMZuK10S20

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This is Infants on Thrones.

0:04.0

Minnesot.

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Minnesot.

0:07.0

Hi, I'm Brother Jack.

0:11.0

Now there are some people that think that people who leave

0:13.8

Mormonism or ex- Mormons tend to experience strong confirmation bias when

0:18.1

viewing things the LDS Church and its leaders do from a non-believing

0:21.3

perspective, but that's not true at all. Let me explain.

0:24.4

See, to become an ex-Morman, most people eventually have to come to a point where they look at the truth

0:28.7

claims of the church from an empirical standpoint, which is something that Mormons are encouraged not to do.

0:34.0

Mormons are the ones with a confirmation bias when you think about it.

0:37.2

So when somebody whose Mormon takes a critical look at the church, all the years of dichotomous

0:41.1

black and white, good and and evil evidence cherry-picking

0:43.7

religiously fueled thinking completely disappears and is replaced with

0:47.5

good smart totally logical and empirical noble smart truth-, evidence following smart thinking skills.

0:54.0

And that allows us to notice things that typical people might not notice.

0:57.7

Like this video of Henry B. Iering during one of the prayers of a recent conference meeting, example. Actually let's watch it.

1:03.9

We are grateful to you in a day of the restoration of the gospel. And thank you for

1:10.9

our living powerful ten, perfect, President Thomas S.

1:15.3

Right there, did you see that?

1:17.0

Right there, when the person giving the prayer was like,

1:19.0

the President Thomas S. Monce and he went like, huh, like a scoffing chuckle, like, yeah, I know this religion's all a fraud,

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