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.

Someone enlighten me pretty please!

Damn. I didn’t know there could be gore without flesh nor blood.

Happy new year fellow people exploited constantly entertained and cared for by MATA Corp!

I knew Grendel would make it!

This is one of those memes where I can believe that those now crossed out years were really added over all the years

One day we get told we’re allowed to swear on the internet next day this

life is a prison

Well there is a certain point where most people’s morals are going to fail. What sets people apart is where that point is.

seems like witchcraft

is x²+y²+z²<=r² not considered a sphere then?

Very good observation. Now what about a hollow sphere?

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

stop hurting my eyes

On one of our Christmas themed university events this year there was a physics teacher who calculated how many reindeers would Santa need if we assume the friction vaporizes each one at a certain rate. Like if Santa had a line of 42000 reindeers in front of his sleigh he could go around the earth once before the last one turned medium rare.

stew that makes them blind for one day

Ehh. I’m not sure it’s very constructive to make a topological argument from a debate people usually think about as a linguistic one.

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

I think there are three ways to handle this properly:

1. If you know it’s gonna be busy do not go there.
2. If you must go there because you have something more important to do there than the rest of the crowd (e. g. tourists in your home city) you may complain all you want.
3. If you go there, and there is a crowd, and they are all there for the same reason you are, you can talk, but not complain about it. You can’t complain about people who all you know about is that they are behaving the same as you in a certain situation. That’s like complaining about yourself. That’s saying there are many people here, but you are not part of the people.

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

The Republicans hate this, but this is what peak christmas cheer content looks like.