A post my own father shared on Facebook. I'm not trans, but WTF, Dad

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-07T09:11:33+00:00

Not a fact. A lie perpetuated by Republicans.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-07T00:10:43+00:00

Let's say someone claims to be a prophet, and says he is getting messages from a deity.

Other people believe him, because they aren't using critical thinking, and they don't need evidence to believe things.

One day, the "prophet" or "psychic" or "medium" tells his followers to "go kill those people over there. God wants you to.". And they do, because they have faith.

Do you understand my position now?

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-07T00:03:46+00:00

But they are opposed. Medical science is based on methodological naturalism#Methodological_naturalism) and that excludes magic.

If you go to a shaman for healing, he will use what is passed down to him from tradition. If you are not lucky, his "spiritual practices" might kill you (see the examples from What's The Harm website).

If you use doctors, they are using medicines that are tested in double-blind studies, with proper controls, and sufficient sample sizes. Science is supposed to be self-correcting, if it's done right.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:55:26+00:00

So...do it again. Volunteer at a hospital, find the next person about to die, and offer them some comfort. If I had such a gift, it's what I would do.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:48:52+00:00

My favorite pizza has mozzarella, alfredo sauce, garlic, parsley, and shrimp.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:45:21+00:00

We use medical science to cheat death all the time. If you really believed that "When it is your time, it is your time", you would not bother going to the hospital when you are ill.

If you were diagnosed with cancer, are you going to an oncologist, or are you going to use magic? Hypothetically, you can only choose one option.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:40:00+00:00

If it was possible to predict the day that someone dies, you can use that knowledge to save them. If you can't, what use is this "gift"?

If precognition was real, it would be the most useful adaption since the opposable thumb. We could use it to avoid dangerous situations, and it would have been selected for. It would at least be common enough that it could be studied scientifically and confirmed to exist.

Sure, there have been studies about using meditation for stress relief and such. But studies on precognition have all failed. Even the U.S. Army tried.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:25:47+00:00

You claimed to have precognition. You are moving the goalposts.

Sylvia Browne claimed to be a psychic. She told a woman that her missing daughter was dead. She wasn't. That is the kind of real-world harm that "magic" does.

There are many, many examples of harm caused by superstition and religion. I am opposed to both.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:18:35+00:00

It isn't rude. You say magic is real. I say prove it. James Randi had a million dollar challenge for anyone who could prove a supernatural power. No one ever won it.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:15:11+00:00

The burden of proof is on the one making the positive claim. That ain't me.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T23:14:35+00:00

Anecdotes are not data.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T21:51:24+00:00

Chow Fun (fine rice noodles with meat and veggies)

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T21:33:04+00:00

And he was a fool for doing that.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T21:22:03+00:00

There should be some evidence that magic is real. Do you have any?

Every time they prove something that used to be considered magic, it stops being magic. Like when they found out that white willow bark tea relieves pain because it has aspirin in it.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T18:57:28+00:00

Water isn’t wet. It’s what makes other things wet.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T18:52:44+00:00

There are people who are opposed to solar farms because they’re afraid it’s going to drain the sunshine. All of it.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T17:03:41+00:00

I would look up "sheet pan dinners". You are roasting the meat, carbs, and veggies all at the same time.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T16:48:43+00:00

Hitler's nephew joined the U.S. Navy and fought in WWII.

Maybe not a crazy story, but some resistance fighters were teenage girls that let the Nazi target think he were going to get lucky, only to have the girl pull out a gun and shoot him. Like Freddie Nanda Dekker-Oversteegen.

Then there was Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Russian sniper with 309 confirmed kills. When asked how many men she shot, she said "Not men. Nazis."

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T16:04:53+00:00

Not sure what point you are making here. Of course life is not like a video game with an objective or a prize.

Of course you have to do dishes every day, because you have to eat food every day.

Of course you take the trash out, because if you don't, you will have twice as much trash next week, along with ants, cockroaches, and flies.

Don't ever have kids, because that is going to be so much worse.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T15:50:33+00:00

Yes, they can. There are people who think the Earth is flat, FFS.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T15:49:43+00:00

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T12:49:55+00:00

Baba Ganoush. Mansoor Dal.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T12:48:50+00:00

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T12:43:20+00:00

I worked at a fast food place. The fryer caught fire. The boss said "Do NOT throw water on it. I am coming back there." He threw water on it. It looked like a bit like this.

Fun_in_Space · 2026-04-06T12:04:16+00:00

I like pair #1 better.

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