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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2010, 10:49:47 am »
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I'm gonna go ahead and assume Cthulhus just trolling

I can see why you can feel the way Cthulhu does, so I personally wouldn't. I understand the illogical nature of conspiracy debates, but IMO it's like arguing whether God exists or not. And I don't think any way is considered the "right" way in this case. In the same way, neither is conspiracy or not.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2010, 04:48:46 pm »
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The result of debating something thats debatable is more confusion than when you started.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2010, 06:21:35 pm »
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... um why would you hate someone for believing in something? get over yourself i bet half the things you thought were right are most likely wrong.
When did I ever use the word hate? I said it pisses me off.
and you're probably half the things I believe might be wrong. Maybe the holocaust never happened  MAYBE it's the Jews playing a trick on us. Maybe the Jews built Aushwitz Concentration Camp. I'm so blind! I thought the holocaust happened and it didn't! How could the Jews just lie to us like that? And why shouldn't I say that I think a person that denies that thousands of people were killed or that the Government is trying to poison us with Vaccines is a terrible person?
and speaking of people that hate other people what they believe in. Maybe I'm just like them. brb going to picket some funerals of dead soldiers because they support the don't ask don't tell policy.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2010, 06:49:07 pm »
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #19 on: March 07, 2010, 06:53:37 pm »
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Yeah my mum doesn't believe in the moon landing...

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2010, 09:19:28 pm »
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... um why would you hate someone for believing in something? get over yourself i bet half the things you thought were right are most likely wrong.

Well, to be honest, sometimes, these things can kill. A good example is HIV Denialism (the idea that HIV is not the causative agent for AIDS). For a while, this was the official policy of South Africa. This is the result.
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2010, 09:42:00 pm »
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Yeah my mum doesn't believe in the moon landing...

My parents don't believe in evolution. Especially that humans evolved from the ancestor of humans and apes.

I didn't learn about evolution until I was 16 and after that it just seemed to fit so nicely that I believed in it from then on.
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2010, 11:39:10 pm »
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Holocaust (and 9/11) deniers enrage me like no other.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2010, 11:50:45 pm »
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I think it's amazing how many people still believe in astrology, even though it has been disproven centuries ago.

As Carl Sagan would say,
"Have you ever noticed how easy it is to find a magazine on astrology? Virtually every newspaper in America has a daily column on astrology. Almost none of them have even a weekly column on astronomy."
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2010, 12:01:35 am »
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Don't forget homeopathy and people who would rather cover their kids in clay than give them a 50-60% chance of survival with chemotherapy.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2010, 06:19:43 pm »
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You people have a very juvenile grasp of the scientific method, we dismiss the claims of the religious, 9/11 'truthers', etc , because such claims are unfalsifiable. There is no conceivable piece of evidence that is capable of exploding their hypothesis, it is impossible to prove them wrong. I mean of course we can, say, present a moon rock to a NASA conspricist, but they will just adjust their claim or outright deny the validity of the rock.
What's important is that the opinions of these people do not matter, claims that cannot be falsified are to be discarded into what Popper called the 'meta-physic' category.
Likewise religious folk are immediately disqualified from the discussion, these types are not interested in validity, when discussing questions about the universe/morality/etc they are to be marginalized (preferably into a sound-proof room), they are not to be 'debated' (as if their was a debate to be had) and their 'opinion' is not to be 'respected'.

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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2010, 07:52:47 pm »
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Edit:
Meh I'm not going to waste my time.
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2010, 08:18:32 pm »
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... um why would you hate someone for believing in something? get over yourself i bet half the things you thought were right are most likely wrong.
When did I ever use the word hate? I said it pisses me off.
and you're probably half the things I believe might be wrong. Maybe the holocaust never happened  MAYBE it's the Jews playing a trick on us. Maybe the Jews built Aushwitz Concentration Camp. I'm so blind! I thought the holocaust happened and it didn't! How could the Jews just lie to us like that? And why shouldn't I say that I think a person that denies that thousands of people were killed or that the Government is trying to poison us with Vaccines is a terrible person?
and speaking of people that hate other people what they believe in. Maybe I'm just like them. brb going to picket some funerals of dead soldiers because they support the don't ask don't tell policy.
what are you on about? .. hahahahahahaah gee that made my day

You said "half the things you believe are right are probably wrong", so he brought up some of the things he believes in and uses a satirical tone to emphasise the inaccuracy of your comment...

... yeah I can't be bothered either.

Basically: he is mocking you
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Re: The kind of people that don't listen to science and reason.
« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2010, 10:11:11 pm »
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Im glad I was born into a buddhist family. No such thing as creation theories or Jew-bashing. 

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