a man of many minds

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Biblically accurate Atheist…

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funnily early Christians had to defend themselves from accusations of atheism from their Pagan contemporaries because they only believed in the 1(3) God(s).

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair, this whole image is really old.

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  • Machindo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes!

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This dude absolutely studied the blade

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do the buzzer things that kill flies attract more flies because there are a lot of fly corpses around it?

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only until Dawkins and others like Thunderfoot convinced them that Islam is a thousands times worse that the worst of christianity, then also the culture wars happened.

      Even geek circles wanted to do the same “big tent” bullshit new atheists tried to pull when atheism+ happened, except it included actual christian fundamentalists. This lead to some new atheists welcoming them, due to the very heavy overlap of the two circles.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That level of conviction that you’re right about something can be pretty destructive regardless of who you are. Theory of evolution was a fear step forward but also somehow resulted in phrenology so. Assholes gonna asshole regardless.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately when exposed to a girl they immediately convert to a christian fundamentalist because the only thing they hate more than religious zealots are girls.

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    • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Protect this man (the OOP) from the wamons at all costs!!

      /s

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  • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah „sceptics“ were instrumental in starting the modern TERF movement. They’re as bad as the fundies.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if he since became an anti-Islam tradcath convert…

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And in this moment I am euphoric

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s only fair, they keep citing some random ass goat herder from some millennia ago.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s because Lawrence Krauss is an asshole. Also cancelled, and considered Epstein a dear friend. And willing to sell his soul to a deeply wacko evangelical publisher to bitch about woke culture.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve seen that video. He sexually harassed his students, faced professional consequences, and blamed it on Woke.

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• UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guy is still less cringe than my fundamentalist parents. Probably less emotionally abusive too

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• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re a system and can’t get this image out of our head now thanks 💀

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• SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am as atheist as it’s possible to be. I’ve never been even slightly religious and there’s no part of me that even vaguely believes in anything religious, supernatural, or superstitious.

  I read The God Delusion and I found it extremely weak and unconvincing

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  • interdimensional_sharts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for your service

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I grew up completely without religion. I only knew one family that went to church, ever. I feel like these books are weak, because i feel like they weren’t made for me. I don’t need to be convinced, i find religion so out there, it’s like listening to someone who believes that Yu-Gi-Oh is real.

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  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought God is Not Great was much better.

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    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t read it, but I don’t find Hitchen’s argumentative style in other venues to be better than Dawkins’

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• SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who are the faces? I know Stephen Fry (top left) and Richard Dawkins (bottom right), but the other 2?

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  • LarsIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bottom left: Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette

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    • Gremour@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Top right is Christopher Hitchens.

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      thanks

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  By the same logic youre arguing against God, who is pretty infallible.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Checkmate, Satan

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have the very same ceiling cat. What does that mean? 👻

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• DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like Penn & Teller

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  M’laity

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “in this moment, I am euphoric”

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mega-mind.

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• Chadsalot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t think he should be drinking from that mug. Looks homemade and not properly glazed.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 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.

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• AccoSpoot@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2010s ass looking post

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• bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Euphoric

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was that kid 20 years ago.

      I stopped playing video games and eating junk food, learned that it is nicer to have friends in the real world instead of just enemies on the internet, realized I really like sports and exercise and being outside. I went through a phase where my ego was wrapped up in my physics degree, went through a hippy phase where I spent 6 months hiking and planned on living a life of poverty, went through an anti-consumption/anti-capitalist phase where I refused to actually make any money while working in software, and went through a climate doomerism phase where I started gardening to learn appropriate skills for the coming climate apocalypse. I went through a van life phase where I built out a campervan and lived in it on the streets while working a white collar job in a cubical. I went through an urban design/local politics phase where I regularly went to neighborhood association meetings. I went through a landlord phase where I bought a couple houses and slept on the floor while I rehabbed and rented them out in the time between when I was working. I went through several phases of chronic injury, which led me to a phase of getting into lifting weights, and for a while I was really into kettlebells. I went through vegetarian, keto, IF, and clean eating phases. I went through an incel phase, an online dating fuckboy phase, and an ethically nonmonogamous phase. I went through a backpacking and hiking phase, a rock climbing phase, a canyoneering phase, a running phase, and a swimming phase. I also had a few times when I was really into meditating, being super regimented, waking up early, sleeping in late, drinking a lot, drinking not at all, upskilling for my career every day, doing fuckall hoping to get fired every day, and pulling all nighters to avoid getting fired.

      And as to your question - yes. It’s still embarassing, lol.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “I have so many other people’s ideas I can’t even think for myself anymore!”

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More like: all these arguments have already been debunked so many times by people more eloquent than me, why should I waste time inventing my own?

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whaddya know, idols that actually didn’t end up being pedofiles! I like this guy

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  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean Dawkins is anti trans, so he can fuck off, but the rest are pretty cool.

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh. Well that figures, he was always a little meh to me

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• moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DeviantArt?

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