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How do you explain me looking this psycho if there is no SATAN
The devil is real!!
Yep! That's him!!!
How can someone so "filled with the light of god" look so darn angry all the time?
Well, it takes one to know one!
Dead smile of someone who had too many pictures taken of them as a child. I like to think I preserved my authenticity by being a little monster during pictures as a child.
Hanlon's Razor and all that, but I just assume that's to drive up interaction in the post.
Rant/ramble ahead, you can skip:
By misspelling something, or just doing/saying something that common sense should say is wrong ("life hack, I just discovered this thing that literally every 5 year old already knows about") you will draw out all the people who are genuinely trying to help, people who just can't help themselves but smugly correct someone, people who THINK they know the right way but aren't sure, people who claim to have never seen the right way before, and all the bitch fights such comments produce.
The increased interactions make the post do better in algorithms, which means it goes out to more and more people, who continue the cycle.
My wife watches short form endless scrolling videos despite knowing how bad those are for your mental health, and some of the people she stops to watch are CONSTANTLY pulling the "common sense says otherwise" one. Like my dude you did NOT just figure out in your 20s that you can wait for the shower to warm up before you get in. Literal toddlers know better. It's such a simple thing, I genuinely do not believe anyone in their 20s just gets in the shower while the water is still cold because they never figured out they can wait for the warm water. But hoooo boy did their video take off and have millions of views, and thousands of comments about how wild that is.
Whenever these people write something, the spelling mistakes are all but inevitable. I'm really impressed if they manage to spell a whole sentence.
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I feel like there's a lot of these, where someone says "how do you explain [extremely basic, everyday thing] without [religion]?", it's kinda weird. Like being a certain level of religious makes you immune to all common sense.
In my experience of these zealot types, it's that they don't want to know the answer, and won't accept any answer that isn't literally bulletproof all the way back to the beginning of time - no matter what you tell them, God did it.
It's like playing a pigeon at chess. It'll shit on the board and then strut around like it won.
These are emotional people with absolutely no care or enjoyment for reason or logic or learning how the world works. I believe strongly that the way our brains develop as we grow, be it influences from environment or genes or upbringing, just can go in radically different directions. Kind of like how some people have no internal monologue, or some people can't visualize images in their mind, I think some people can't comprehend the world outside of a very "mystical" interpretation, even when taught how physics and evolution work, they still will see those forces as expressions of a mystical universe with a personal, subjective God who is trying to communicate with them.
You absolutely cannot reason with this kind of perspective because it's not one of reason. The MOST you can hope for is getting them to feel something, and in this I have only ever found common ground in things like expressions of love for the universe or the beauty of nature, but that's like one person going to the baseball game to watch the game, and the other to eat the food.
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won't accept any answer that isn't literally bulletproof
Quite fitting, then, that the Venn diagram of people who would literally shoot bullets at a question and people who are religious is pretty much a circle 😉
Well that's a fairly consistent pov. "God of the Gaps" is what it's called. Ostensibly, that sort of person accepts new evidence for things, so it's probably not one of the worst ways to think
No, it's not "god of the gaps" to deny elementary school education.
This post is specifically selecting for the complete morons who won't even listen to a basic explanation of refraction...
If you say, "well a lot of religious people will say that!" then yes. Yes, religious people are morons.
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I think what they are trying to say is that the emotional experience they have when they look at a sunset is similar to the emotional experience that gives them conviction that there is a God. It's not a statement of objective fact about the universe and its processes; it's a statement about their mental and emotional life and how they want to feel inside their own head.
Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.
Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.
There is still a decent chance it's the second tbh. Fucking magnets/tide goes in etc.
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“Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that!” —Bill O’Reilly
They're just shuffling cards. They will make whatever mouth noises get to their foregone conclusion. This is how they perform loyalty to the ingroup.
They think that's all you're doing, because they think that's all there is.
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It's not that we can't explain it, it's that you can't understand it.
The sun just... set? I don't understand what is to be explained.
Well, she's a flat earther, so how does the sun set work without God?
Idiots. You shouldn't care to explain anything, they are beyond dumb.
Also she used the wrong "there."
Get a ball, hold it between your eye and a light source. I know that some natural phenomena are hard to explain, but this one is really easy to conceptualize.
Their
Tide comes in, tide goes out. Explain that, atheists!
Same way I'd explain a sciency-type person who doesn't know the difference between there, their and they're.
Their is the ciense
Sunset and twilight are my fave parts of the day. The colours are just so pretty...Thank you, rayleigh scattering!
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