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tpaine posted:

tpaine posted:

science and atheism

i felt i had to specify this because this is an lf offshoot and lf has always been really dumb about religion but atheism should be redundant there



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multiple sclerosis
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ignore me
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the whole point of science is to make people's life worse
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true, but all people are out to get people, so your point is invalid
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i always thought the problem was self-righteous "new" atheism and not atheism itself.
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rofl look at these fedora neckbeard bronies



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tpaine posted:

the backlash against science and atheism is probably the number one thing holding any kind of popular communism movement back aside from external factors



is this a jokepost?

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beautiful footage. looks like a hard day's work. but rewarding
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old timey communists believed in all sorts of superstitions like atheism but they were well intentioned
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like his mentor carl sagan, neil degrassi jr high tyson likes to spark up the occasional doobage

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tpaine posted:

HenryKrinkle posted:

i always thought the problem was self-righteous "new" atheism and not atheism itself.

what is self-righteous new atheism

dawkins, harris, hitchens, etc.

they think not believing in god is more important than anything else and that religious people are morons by default.

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dawkins probably asks himself that all day long and his answer is "memes" afaik
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i hate him
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peepaw posted:

like his mentor carl sagan, neil degrassi jr high tyson likes to spark up the occasional doobage



i thought i posted this upthread but i checked and my link was broken D:

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swampman posted:

the whole point of science is to make people's life worse



you actually believe this, dont you

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guidoanselmi posted:

i wanna write something about why cosmos is shit but id have to watch it. catch22



i watched it and its great. Dialectical materialism ftw

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it's not that im afraid of dialectical materialism, i just dont want to be there when it happens
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tpaine posted:

the backlash against science and atheism is probably the number one thing holding any kind of popular communism movement back aside from external factors


yeah , glad im not the only one who noticed Teh revolution was just about ready to pop off until people on twitter started talking sarcastically to atheists and using hashtags disingenuously.

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oh fuck not disingenuous hashtags
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c_man posted:

swampman posted:

the whole point of science is to make people's life worse

you actually believe this, dont you

sorry. the STATED POINT of science is to make peoples life better. The actual effect, is to make peoples life worse.

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thanks, i agree, medicine is fake and im prepared to meet my destiny at 35
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Yeah you fucking dummy, that's my position, dumb guy, that I think medicine doesn't work, because that is something I would believe, you spawn of spawns. No. Antibiotics are a good example, for example, the antibiotic cluster bombs on daily delivery to every milk cow in USA... Medicine works! Viva science. Viva it.
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i see we are on the same page. viva science, viva art, viva living a life on this fuckup earth
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There are over 7 billion people on the planet today, because, well, SCIENCE IS FUCKIN AWESOME!
Thank you scienc for helping humans reach their true potential.
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dont give all the credit to science, art does its fair share of making life on this earth worth living

thank god for art and philosophy for saving the soul of humanity
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science doesnt make life worse. that's technology.

and it's not that technology makes life worse, it just makes it worse faster
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i hope the singularity takes the form of a giant meat grinder the human race is fed into
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the second law of thermodynamics is what makes life worse. fuck you Boltzmann
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at least original son and the cycle of samsara etc had a get out clause
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littlegreenpills posted:

the second law of thermodynamics is what makes life worse. fuck you Boltzmann



there were 'kelvin' and 'clausius' versions of the second law. not boltzmann but yeah he helped understand entropy tremendously

to that extent boltzmann killed himself and this is his tombstone:

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please stop confusing Science with Capitalism. it not Marxist and consistently erases the manifold accomplishments and material successes of the former Soviet Union