• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    4 hours ago

    We needed this type of guy in the internet ecosystem. We hunted them to extinction because they were cringe and annoying but they were all that was keeping the religious wackos at bay

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      4 hours ago

      Were they? They seemed to attract them more than repel them. Quickest way to turn 1 religious zealot into 20 was add one obnoxious internet atheist.

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        1 hour ago

        They pulled them away from other places and kept them distracted for us to lead normal internet lives.

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        2 hours ago

        Cunningham’s Law states “the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”

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        That level of conviction that you’re right about something can be pretty destructive regardless of specific belief system. Theory of evolution was a great step forward but also somehow resulted in phrenology and branches of capitalism that liken it to “survival of the fittest” so. People like to concentrate power amongst themselves and people like them then justify it as them being smarter and more right about some kind of fundamental truth about the universe. Assholes gonna asshole regardless.

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    7 hours ago

    If this kid actually read a single book by any of those, I am willing to forgive everything.

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    14 hours ago

    I have the power of Penn Gillette and Anime on my side! BWAHHHHH

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      I have not seen Gillette in while ( he’s not really my jam) and then I saw him in Marty supreme. He has lost a lot of weight and is also much older. Turns out time keeps on turning, who knew.

      Anyway all that just to say that’s a really old image of him.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

      Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

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        13 hours ago

        Honestly, the debate as to whether god exists or not is intellectual masturbation, which is either of no consequence, or a mortal sin that will see you burn in a lake of fire, or neither or both of those things, or nothing at all, or everything. Quite simple really

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.

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      7 hours ago

      I find myself wondering about that kid sometimes. Like, where is he now. What is he doing? Does he still wake up in the night screaming and soaking in sweat from the embarrassment?

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    11 hours ago

    At least he cares about belief enough to “debate” it, even if he doesn’t understand it. I think many “hardcore atheists” are just Western Trinitarians who, at least for a while, wished religion/so-called religious folk had substance but then they see megachurches and politicians saying “God Bless America” before bombing and raping the global South and they’re utterly disappointed.