Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth

• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  why is this being downvoted

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.

    The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1. I don’t even believe OOP’s premise. There might be a majority with prayers at the end but I don’t think it’s every single one.
      2. I think they only care about the US. It’s not selection bias but ignorance about the rest of the world.

      That said, OOP’s argument wasn’t that their god is real but that deep down, everyone is religious. Still they made it into a truth claim about their religion. The commenter took the truth claim and ran with it.

      I thought about putting “/s” in my first comment but it didn’t feel quite right. It was more a thought experiment. Applying selection bias to the reply. It was only the second comment when I entered troll mode.

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Applying selection bias to the reply

        Insert inception bwwwwaoww

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  • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because there is no magic sky magician letting kids die a gruesome leukemia death, while saving a specific plane because a special favorite person of his happens to be on board the aircraft. There’s just physics and mechanics and pilots and things going right and things going wrong.

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The comment is obviously sarcasm / a joke

      Making the sarcastic statement that “we don’t hear about god saving planes at the last moment but it does happen”

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That person has gone on to repeatedly double down on the position elsewhere in the comments, I’m afraid to say the hivemind was right on this one and they sure appear to be a whackdoodle that actually believes what they said there.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because of Poe’s Law. Sometimes I try to make my intentions obvious but sometimes I just don’t care

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you mean Poe’s Law here? That would imply you only made the claim about divine selection bias sarcastically, and we all just thought you were being serious.

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Did you mean Poe’s Law?

        I meant what I said and I said Poe’s Law. I don’t understand your question.

        And I didn’t mean that god selects. I meant that we only talk about those who crash. It was a thought experiment

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