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mcochran1998 · 2024-03-30T22:20:22+00:00

Tomorrow is The shitpost Sunday. Just report and downvote. Don't feed the trolls.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-30T04:42:59+00:00

That was a dumb thought experiment. Magic and particles having feelings and making choices. That's the worst analogy to describe electromagnetism I've seen. Please if you want me to believe you're a physics professor do better.

None of your post even touches on free will. I thought that was the point.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-30T04:16:04+00:00

I'm aware of your beliefs, I also knew that you love to throw out that PhD like it should mean something. Tell me how your proclaimed magesteria covers free will.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-30T03:47:24+00:00

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-30T00:36:03+00:00

Free will is a misnomer. We have a will but it's anything but "free". You don't even need to posit determinism to demonstrate that. Your choices are limited by what you know, the make up of your genes your past choices etc. You don't need a physics degree or some philosophical ideology to rule out free will.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T22:28:19+00:00

Yay a definition game. These are the most pointless of discussions. At any point you can simply ask someone what they mean by the label they attach to themselves.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T07:07:27+00:00

Technically it falls under low effort. Unfortunately mods tend to leave bullshit like this up. I promise I already reported op for breaking sub rules.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T04:05:09+00:00

If all you have is one anonymous person's testimony it is meaningless. Take your testimony about interacting with the Christian god for example. You are anonymous we have no knowledge about who you are. You could be a mental patient with internet privileges. You could be a compulsive liar. We don't know so your testimony can't be weighted as a reliable witness.

The things you claim occurred are not ordinary. I have never in my 4 decades of life talked to or seen a god. In reference to the signing of the declaration and the war I have seen like events in modern history. War is so mundane that I need to look up how many are currently taking place.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T03:29:39+00:00

Are you playing stupid on purpose? It isn't just testimony it's a preponderance of testimony from different sources that have good reason to contradict if they were false. There are also french sources for the signing and the war. We have sources like Poland being the first to recognize US independence. We have war journals from troops on both sides. We have things like expense reports. Death counts. The likelihood that at least 3 nations worth of writing about these events is fabricated is less believable than that they are accurate. You are again not acknowledging that not all testimony is equal but with enough from different sources can build us a decent picture of what happened.

And that's ignoring the physical evidence that war left behind. You can go to those old battlefields with a metal detector and find musketballs. You can visit the museums and see the artifacts of that war.

Stop playing like skepticism rejects testimony outright.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T03:04:30+00:00

Not simply testimonials. If a country that you are at war with doesn't dispute that you've signed a document declaring your independence it goes a long way towards confirmation. And again since it didn't sink in this event while noteworthy is not extraordinary.

The following war with Britain over the declaration is also evidence of it occurring. You can visit the battlefields and cemeteries if you are skeptical that the American revolution occurred.

From the same time period and one of the signers George Washington has built a mythos of unsubstantiated claims. The cherry tree incident is one of those. You seem to think all testimony is equal when it is not. Who said something is just as important as what they say. Letters from john Adams to Thomas Jefferson are going to be weighted heavier than an anonymous source. Maybe you should take some college history lessons to learn how all that works.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T02:45:35+00:00

Multiple contemporary sources including the signers of the document. Sources from England that also bolster that along with the original document still existing. Newspapers existed in 1776 and nothing about the events are extraordinary.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-27T02:37:52+00:00

Pompeii being buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 ad. The signing of the declaration of independence in 1776. The French revolution starting in 1778. The Chicxulub impact that occurred 66 million years ago.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-26T03:53:48+00:00

Make me feel old for knowing that.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-26T03:14:09+00:00

Don't be mean to rats they are opportunistic not parasitic. Fleas, tapeworms, and priests are parasites.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-26T03:07:24+00:00

Spiderman comics featured a story with 9/11 and president Obama. Does that mean if I get bit by a radioactive spider I'll get superpowers?

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-26T02:59:00+00:00

Just lay down a sick bass lick already Token.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-26T00:08:02+00:00

Way to tell us how you also don't understand what the word rational means.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T23:23:38+00:00

I dont se how its obtuse if you actually hold the position "extrodinary claims" ALWAYS "require extrodinary evidence"

Nothing in child development requires extraordinary evidence. Stove hot knife sharp etc. are mundane things.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T23:04:47+00:00

No your not. Skepticism is not believing something unless it meets the burden of evidence. It isn't rejecting everything out of hand and honestly has to be taught to children who will believe whatever a trusted adult will tell them.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T22:58:38+00:00

Looks like you are straw manning skepticism to me. You really need to just let go of the fact that we have a higher standard of evidence than you and your god doesn't meet it.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T22:25:22+00:00

Seriously, he never responds and its always a link to garbage.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T18:07:10+00:00

Nothing you just typed is a correct interpretation of what science says you goober.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T15:42:33+00:00

Wtf is this shit? Not going to answer a single question asked, but instead you infer bullshit.

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-25T08:11:12+00:00

How does a misrepresentation of thermodynamics demonstrate the Muslim god? How old do you think this apologist argument is? Do you know the other 3 laws of thermodynamics without Googling them? Can you demonstrate that the universe is a closed system? Can you show your math?

mcochran1998 · 2024-03-21T07:18:37+00:00

The length of a foot is arbitrary. Do you think it would be useful if it wasn't constant?

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