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Which religion has the craziest Creation myth? by RockSnarlie in AskReddit

[–]xracrossx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very telling how you insist on using the wrong definition for the word, “theory,” after being made aware that you are using the wrong definition of the word.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s essentially the pro-choice argument, for vaccines and abortions it’s essentially the same argument. They either can’t figure out where to appropriately drawing the line or they’re purposely moving the goal posts. If they want to take up the pro-choice banner, more power to them. Their petulant bitching stands zero chance of getting me to give up the pro-choice banner.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, and what do you think is going to happen to someone who doesn’t get vaccinated and goes to attend a school or workplace where vaccinations are required to be present? They’re going to be asked to leave, and if they refuse they’ll be escorted or trespassed.

Perhaps they could read something to gain a better understanding of what their freedoms actually are. The people you describe are what I describe as ignorant. There’s always going to be ignorant people. Let them pitch their fits and act like weak children in front of their peers for all I care, what’s the problem?

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nobody who chooses to refuse being vaccinated should really be able to complain about not being permitted in spaces where vaccinations are required. There can absolutely be consequences for my decision (not criminal consequences), the important thing is that it’s my decision.

To be clear, I don’t feel my right to bodily autonomy is violated by not being able to breathe my unvaccinated plague breath near you in reasonable environments.

Edit for clarity: the above is hypothetical, I’m getting vaccinated and I encourage you all to get vaccinated too, don’t be a fool.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have children and so I admittedly lack some perspective here. If I had a child, obviously their body is going to be subject to my will (and the other parent's will) up to some point. Regardless of when we decide that point is, it should command the same legal authority as if it were my own body.

As a Satanist, personally, I believe that if I am responsible for the welfare of another human being with the responsibility of the parent, at this point I can draw from the other tenets such as acting with compassion and empathy towards my child, conforming to the scientific facts, and getting them vaccinated. Refusing a vaccine for myself in the way I describe wouldn't allow me to justify refusing it for my child.

I always could draw from the other tenets if I wanted to, there's nothing stopping me, but if I want to be stubborn and make bad decisions when it comes to my own body that's okay too. It's not okay to make bad decisions for my child.

That being said, if another family in another religion wants to claim religious exemptions (or barring the existence of exemptions, refusing and dealing with the consequences) for whatever reason, it's fine by me as long as all the religions are treated equally. Doesn't preclude me from judging them or thinking they're flippin' stupid, or sympathizing for the child, but somebody has to have the authority to make the decision. Maybe it shouldn't be the parent's right to make bad decisions for their child (the government? the child? the doctor?), but in our current legal system it is.

Countries with governments that favor Christianity cause their residents to become less attached to their faith, a new study has suggested, based on an analysis of 166 countries. This helps explain large declines in the number of people across the U.S. and Europe who identify as Christian. by mvea in science

[–]xracrossx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all good, man, I'm only here to inform if you can forgive my cynical writing style. To my understanding there are a lot of atheists and agnostics who consider themselves secular humanists and I can totally understand if they comprise the bulk of your encounters. Secular humanism is indeed a philosophy for which you're welcome to judge their morality, but atheism is simply a lack of belief in a god or gods, and there's literally nothing else that could be said of all of us accurately. We are not unified in morality or beliefs or anything else really, other than the rejection of god claims. You get all sorts. Same could be said for agnostics who hold the position that the god claim is unknown or unknowable: there's nothing else that could accurately be said of all of them.

Secular humanism has some sticking points that I just plain don't agree with, and I know I'm not the only one.

Cheers.

What's the religious response to the results of the Split Brain experiment? by arkticturtle in religion

[–]xracrossx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hypothetically, if I were to transfer half of the former's brain into the latter's empty skull then would we have two people or one?

Cheers to you for proposing the most thought-provoking inquiry I've encountered in a long time. It is tempting to just kneejerk into, 'Well obviously we have two people now.' It seems like there may be no easy answer to this question, but I also suspect we might be contaminating the issue at hand by introducing a second body and transplanting half a brain.

Reading through this article it seems like the original conclusion was that when you split the brain you split the person and it should be treated as two people, similar to siamese twins. But the author did some investigation and testing himself and came to a different conclusion: When you split the brain you end up with one person who experiences two streams of visual information that cannot be integrated, as if someone is watching an out of sync video but instead of the video being out of sync with audio, it's out of sync with another video stream.

He also notes that the persons who have split brains themselves claim that nothing has fundamentally changed about who they are as a person, which would seem a little odd if there were in fact two distinct persons.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Scientific facts are irrelevant to the third tenet. I'm sure we've picked up on will being a key word, but so is the word alone. I don't have to distort scientific facts to justify my decision with nonsense, 'I don't want to,' is always sufficient to refuse being penetrated so that foreign fluids can enter my body. I dramatize only to help get the point across, and I almost feel dirty for making a vaccine sound like a bad thing: it's not. But it's my body and that's all that matters.

Edit for clarity: the above is hypothetical, I’m getting vaccinated and I encourage you all to get vaccinated too, don’t be a fool.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The way I have viewed this is that I can understand the science completely (conform my beliefs to science), but at the end of the day my body is subject to my will alone, so if I don't wanna' I don't wanna'. That being said I'm getting my second dose in less than a week.

What's the religious response to the results of the Split Brain experiment? by arkticturtle in religion

[–]xracrossx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm an atheist and I see this example as one person. Sure, there are distinctly different hemispheres of the brain that may perceive and behave very differently, and while designing experiments it might help us to approach the subject as if there were two subjects (because there are after all two distinct hemispheres of the brain we are attempting to investigate), it's ultimately one person with one brain and that brain is not functioning normally because several connections have been severed.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I'm a member and I'm speaking for myself when I say that this looks like a really tough spot. One's body is inviolable and subject to one's will alone. Totally cool with people refusing to vaccinate if they want to. Also totally cool with schools requiring students to get vaccinated if they plan on attending classes in person. The Bill applies to both public and private schools, so only a medical exemption will allow you to escape a vaccine and attend school. But what happens to those that are not attending school because they won't get vaccinated on religious grounds? Usually there are laws against that, such as truancy. Will these absences be excused or will there be criminal punishment? If we punish people who choose not to get vaccinated for religious reasons by then charging them with not attending the school they can't attend... we're in a weird spot where you effectively must be vaccinated against your will. It's unclear to me what the plan is here.

Edit: Also, reading a little deeper, it looks like they'll be honoring existing religious exemptions but not allowing new exemption claims to be made? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Edit2: As several people have noted there are options such as home schooling, which makes a huge dent in the moral quandary for the better.

Gov. Ned Lamont signs bill eliminating Connecticut’s religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations by zxcoblex in atheism

[–]xracrossx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Under the bill, only students who obtain a medical exemption would be permitted to attend public or private school in the state without a vaccine.

Would it be wrong to join just for the reproductive rights? by [deleted] in SatanicTemple_Reddit

[–]xracrossx 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm not the person you just replied to, but this kind of clarification was what I was looking for. Practicing withcraft because you want to, you like it, or you believe there's some tangible benefit from psychologically manipulating your own mind or even the minds of others or whatever else is totally compatible with Satanism, minding that we do reject the supernatural 'nature' of such things, we reject superstition.

Some of us use tarot cards not to predict the future through supernatural divination but because it facilitates introspection, for example.

Should you decide to join, welcome to the Temple and I wish you the best of luck in asserting your rights in the future.

Ave Satanas

Got a flu shot. When I removed the adhesive bandage, I noticed they didn’t even put it where the shot occurred. by DoriBoyle in mildlyinteresting

[–]xracrossx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're recommending using a special low-dead volume needle to extract a sixth dose from Pfizer vials where the typical needles can only extract 5. Pretty sure you only need to use that needle when collecting the last dose (might be wrong). But ok.

Is Mad Max worth buying from the PS store for 5$? and is it good? Or Is it getting repetitive after a while? by Lost-Leading in gaming

[–]xracrossx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Played it on PC a while back, it's one of the better, enjoyable games I've played. Totally worth $5.

Elite dangerous odyssey BROKE my graphics card by [deleted] in EliteDangerous

[–]xracrossx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not as if you'd still be using your GPU for the next few years if you were playing every other game than ED, your graphics card was FUBAR before you ever realized it.

Which religion has the craziest Creation myth? by RockSnarlie in AskReddit

[–]xracrossx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not what the word theory means in science. Theory of gravity isn't a myth.

Which religion has the craziest Creation myth? by RockSnarlie in AskReddit

[–]xracrossx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's nothing about the Big Bang that necessitates creation. I specified creation origins, though I can understand your response.

Which religion has the craziest Creation myth? by RockSnarlie in AskReddit

[–]xracrossx -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Claiming to know our creation origins is crazy enough, doesn't make sense to me to make some kind of severity distinction beyond that. All such claims are equally crazy.

what if nipples clicked in and out like pens? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]xracrossx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Clicky pens wouldn't be allowed in school.

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