WARNING: This is a huge brain dump. I mention the christian God and Jesus and a bunch of sappy stuff that might just be irrational emotions. I'm just curious to see what the community here thinks about my feelings and whether I'm just a deluded spiritualist or something.
I am not 100% atheist. I am also not 100% theist. You see, I have this cognitive dissonance where I accept science and it's explanations and I understand them, but there is this feeling in my chest that tells me that there's something out there.
I grew up in a Christian household. My parents didn't force me to go to church, though my grandmother bribed me with food and treats. I've been exposed to organized religion and I find it very uncomfortable. It makes me sick to be in a church, like my anxiety skyrockets. My parents, however, namely my mother, taught me her beliefs in God and Jesus. She taught me about love and the powers it can have, how it can reach people and help them.
I'm highly spiritual. I believe that the Bible isn't the be all end all because it was written by humans. I don't trust a bunch of old men back in the times before toilet paper to properly report on a savior accurately without bleeding some of their own opinions into it and not following proper documenting etiquette. I follow my beliefs through my own morality and ability to empathize. I don't believe in murder, lying, stealing, etc. I strive every single day to be kind and understanding to those around me, it makes me feel good to make others happy and feel secure. I don't do it because I'll go to hell or because an almighty being dictates it. I just treat people how I want to be treated.
If there is a god out there, I believe it must be a god of love. Or love itself. There is bad in the world. Horrible things. Things that make me cry and hurt when I read them. This isn't a fair world and I don't believe it was meant to be. Without bad, we cannot have good. Without hatred or apathy, there can be no love and compassion. When I think and ask myself about there being something, anything, out there... I get this feeling in my chest. It's a feeling of love I can't describe 100%. It's like agape, an all encompassing love, but it helps to guide me. My love for my fiancΓ©, (whom I am marrying in 3 days) is so powerful that it moves me very deeply. There is nothing I wouldn't do for this man. He is so important to me, this feeling of deep caring seems almost overwhelming. I'm so glad to experience it. It makes me wo
... keep reading on reddit β‘β¨ Angry Vulgar Rant Time! β¨ Seriously, who ever decided that people who refuse to educate themselves on certain subjects get to have opinions on them?! If you donβt understand that gender is a lot more complicated than whatβs between your legs SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH! If you donβt read any scientific papers on trans people how tf do you know weβre scientifically not the gender we identify as!? Or the biological sex for that matter for those of us who go on hrt and pursue surgeries! How are you going to tell me that Iβm wrong when your understanding of biology is as shallow as your schooling and you havenβt gone out of your way to learn how this stuff works on a deeper level!? And itβs cool people donβt need to learn about things they donβt care about.... UNTIL YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND DECIDE YOU WANT TO TELL OTHER PEOPLE THEYβRE WRONG!!!! LIKE WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? Ugh! Itβs literally infuriating, and even if you LITERALLY HAND THEM scientific studies, or send them links, or tell them to generally go educate themself... they wonβt! They somehow think theyβre still right when you have SOURCES!MOTHERFUCKING SOURCES!!! I just got done saying we live in the time with the most powerful and available source of knowledge in all of humanity thus far, so why is everyone still dumb as shit!? Itβs absolutely absurd! I donβt have a fancy closing piece for my rant, so good day!
(I said good day sir!)
I'm not transgender, a straight girl with just a little knowledge on how I can support the lgbt community when I can. People comparing a legitimate condition and mind to something made up is not only disrespectful to transgender people, it can easily add to the DANGEROUS stigma of transpeople. Black trans-women only have a life expectancy of around 30 due to hate crimes and suicide, and comparing these people to these often disgusting groups is insulting.
I was just watching an Atheist Experience video of a xian caller using the argument from ignorance fallacy and it struck me: christians mock science because it changes over time. At one time, science was used to justify some pretty horrible things and it got many things wrong along the way. Fortunately, these errors in thinking were corrected and science matured. It matured through entirely secular means, btw, examining the philosophy of science and eschewing assumptions that were hard for humans to get rid of.
Of course, that's one of the best thing about science! We had no idea about the nature of the world around us 5,000 years ago, and only through very diligent study by some of our best minds, were we able to make progress to what we have today where the theory of relativity allows us to use GPS in our cell phones.
And yet, when these same xians ask about the origin of all things, they're shocked that we haven't figured it all out by 2018. If we haven't figured it out by now, they want to throw it out and declare yahweh the winner. As I often say: we only discovered about 90 years ago that the universe is expanding. This is after watching the stars and keeping records for millenia! It would be nice if we could have a little more time to discover the origin of all things. We just discovered the Higgs Boson a couple of years ago. It blows my mind that people can see these kinds of breakthroughs occurring in their lifetime, yet expect us to also know the origin of the universe right now.
It just struck me that this was a highly hypocritical stance.
Figured I'd pose the question.
For example, as I am starting to harvest my first grow I've come across a lot of vague advice regarding harvest time and how it correlates to different highs, CBD:THC ratios, etc. Also harvesting at night vs day, drying times, trimming wet vs dry, etc.
Figured I'd ask the community to share some of their favorite bro science - whether the claims are straight up false and humorous or whether they are beneficial but grounded with false science / logic - doesn't matter - share away!
I think they didn't, because if you don't assume the conclusion (at least when writing the argument), you'll go off on useless tangents without getting to a target, simply due to the fact that philosophy isn't a "take data, analyse data" field, unlike science. However I acknowledge that I'm biased in that I'm (very tentatively) religious.
They believed the correct way to do things was to get your data then find the conclusion that best suits the data, by the way. They made no mention of whether only formal scientific data counted or if people's experiences and beliefs counted too, but given their view I assume their view of "data" is only the scientific type.
It is a similar to on-going dialog I have with a co-worker in that he seems to believe that Science is a belief system similar to religion; this is similar to what I've heard from Douglas Wilson in some of his arguments arguing that 'reason' itself is a belief system with no more merit to 'truth' than atheists claim religion has.
Whereas we might see the results of science on the same truth level as mathematics with the caveat that it might change as we discover more, this mis-understanding gives creationists an opt-out clause in having to trust the results of science, in particular evolution.
I think the way to win the mind-share is to begin a discussion on that level since you cannot trust the evidence if you don't trust the methodology in the first place. So we need to argue that science works by refuting the past, coming up with new models and that you can only be as certain within a statistical range and even then, a paradigm shift might throw everything out of the window.
Has anyone tried this line of argument?
seems kinda hypocritical if you ask me
Spam bot caught this one but I think it's worth sharing anyway. A data science team tried to recreate study results using a publicly available data set, and couldn't. Turns out the original data had been cleaned incorrectly, leading to the same sample data points being added to both the test and training set, and thus models with very high predictors.
https://towardsdatascience.com/rookie-data-science-mistake-invalidates-a-dozen-medical-studies-8cc076420abc
