Rational Wiki makes me rage so hard. Read the page on capitalism, and then the one on socialism.
Dear…GOD! It’s as if someone put Data’s skill for typing really fast into the (small) brain of TheAmazingAtheist.
Ugh, did you have to mention him?
Obama’s way of getting two-terms:
@ Wheylous
It’s kind of hard to talk about stupidity and not mention TheAmazingAtheist in the same sentence.
Atheism, skepticism, and rationalism have gradually been turned into the religion of scientism: the completely uncritical worship of authority. Religion dressed up with labcoats and equations.
One dude told me that if there were enough evidence for square circles, he’d believe in them. That really sums up the scientistic position. Not a hint of rationality, skeptical only of anyone who questions authority figures, and more religious than theists in their willingness to believe in incoherent notions.
One dude told me that if there were enough evidence for square circles, he’d believe in them. That really sums up the scientistic position.
Well, I mean, if there is enough evidence, why not?
Well, I mean, if there is enough evidence, why not?
Empiricist! I knew it!
TheAmazingAthiest needs to be smacked by a Joseph Campbell book with a professor in religion doing the smacking.
Here’s how it works, this guy colors himself as a psuedo-intellectual that’s not actually a psuedo-intellectual (and he’s actually not) and says something such as “Like, OMG, it’s bullshit, see what I just did there?!” and then others without having a thought of substance go “Like, OMG, see what he did there?!” and post his videos on Facebook, and then wonder why they “stand alone” and become ridiculed as atheists. Every posts gets marked at the end with “freethinker” yet they’ve never actually thought about it and can’t begin to read and question the jackass making the videos either.
SkepticalMetal your Humphrey Bogart avatar sort of looks like Albert Camus if you squint at it.
Why yes, indeed it does.
When I find the time to actually sit and read (maybe tomorrow afternoon) I’m going to write up a piece on Cloud Atlas, praxeology, and Jungian psychology for VR. Don’t get your hopes up, could be horrible. I’m currently witholding something that I feel is too good for me to post immediately. I could be vain.
If we’re gonna be precise we’ll have to say that it is meaningless to speak of “evidence” for square circles, let alone “enough evidence.” The point is, the dude was very confused.
Math is allowed to do some insane things…
Most people will swallow anything if it comes from an authority figure.
Just ask Monica Lewinsky.
@ Groucho
Oh, that’s a good one.