halvar

@halvar@lemy.lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check mate, atheists. ⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Religions aren’t something to be argued about with the tools of empiricism. The mythologies of religions are non-provable, that’s why they are also called faith. If someone religious tries to “prove” the statements of their religion to someone who doesn’t believe in them not only are they misguided but also most likely not too sharp, since they can’t recognize the utter futility of what they are doing. It’s futile not only because they have no chance of convincing their talking partner, but also because there is no way to prove anything about religion.

  That doesn’t mean people can’t or shouldn’t have a religion by the way, it just means what I said, that there is no way to argue about religion empirically and so you shouldn’t.

  With that said I do also think this is a bit of a strawman. I’m sure there are people who despite the (in my opinion) immensely obvious stupidity of the aforementioned behavior do behave like that, but I mostly only hear about this type of people when hardcore atheists (to whom the same applies by the way, you also can’t disprove faith and someone whose sole basis for reality isn’t empirical observation can’t be convinced by you trying to disprove it) parodize it.

  In the end I think the problem with the conversation depicted is that on a logical level it’s the same as two religions arguing with eachother. They have completely different ways in which they define reality, so there is no way to come to a common understanding of it by arguing. You won’t convince someone about the existence of God who only believes in what can be proven by experiment and you won’t convince someone of the non-existence of God who believes in God because they don’t have that same way of defining reality. Doing so either way would very closely mirror for example a Buddhist being convinced to become a Christian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado toast time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  seems like witchcraft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pies of Power⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to bully people for enjoying their wretched abomination they dare call pizza, but man, they have to stop rationalizing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats enough internet for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  stop hurting my eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you for the shitposts, y'all kept me sane.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite Home Alone trap is still when Beatrix opens the trailer’s door and Budd just immediately blasts her with a shotgun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s the part that includes everything below the ankle. Basically the foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my language it’s called a purple onion

  and the we call white onions red

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upvotes have been removed for your safety ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  not being able to find the button, now I feel unsafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Messiah!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sage is one of those wordplays that still gets me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This AI summary is certainly shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it sounds like it was written by cgp grey to parody his own video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful, he's a hero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  heroes walk among us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I oppose infighting then am I

  • an enemy of the revolution
  • someone whoese movement didn’t get pure enough before I left
  • or both?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can’t just shoot a hole into the surface of mars!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't touch this!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And like, does she think “wait did I get railed by a fucking snake” after that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does this count as a science meme? :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe mom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not even gay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh no he said everything my denomination said he did. every other denomination is misguided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get fucking got!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think there's an imposter amongus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You just have to change your name, go to a conference, stand on the stage and announce, that you are Et al.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry Christmas Mike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually laughed at this lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a pretty good arguement. As for me virtue signaling I didn’t notice that, but even if that is true on some level, I don’t really think it’s hypocritical to remind people not to tell other people what to do, despite that being telling someone what to do.

  Also some more refined thoughts about what I meant: I get that twitter is a cesspool, but everyone at least here knows that. I just thought that was a really weird topic to bring up on this post out of the blue. Yes everyone knows it’s run by the Nazi Man. It’s not very constructive to fixate on that in a community where everyone is already of that opinion, because it turns the conversation into a circlejerk. Yes obviously people will upvote someone calling twitter a collection of Nazi bootlickers on Lemmy and I’m tired of that. Because it is virtue signaling is what it is and everyone who upvotes it is also taking part in that and feeling good about it for some weird reason. It’s not something people should do, because that’s not the constructive part of criticizing Twitter or Elon, it’s just the echo chamber part of it where nothing of importance happens, instead people who are part of it will spend their time with reinforcing eachother’s already pretty well reinforced ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes sure I may have overreacted a bit and I get how it connects to the topic on some level, but I’m starting to feel that some people just have to use every opportunity to say how XY is actually something a nazi would do (even if 99% of people do said thing) and then get a bajillion upvotes because people live in an echo chamber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see which boxes I check

  likes any right wing figure at all - no

  is left wing - yes

  likes twitter - no

  thinks genocide would solve stuff - no

  wants to give tax breaks to billionaires - no

  thinks random offtopic mentions of all twitter users being bootlickers are destructive - yes

  thinks it’s also useless virtue signaling and just a giant circlejerk - yes

  obvious nazi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hey look at me i never fail to mention obvious facts when i’m ideologically motivated to do so

  no seriously this is some serious virtue signaling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do what one must!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  poor gata

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes perfect sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and like also frogs totally cant speak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Atlantis? Hammol is literally on every map and the dumb Americans think it’s fucking Atlantis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big tobacco stopped paying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  on the other hand tobacco causes extreme addiction which is for about 15 minutes very fun when satiatied

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i told you so⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit friend inside me is roasting me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accidental rapture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  first i was confused then i realized my confusion was the point and i let go