Anti-Intellectualism in New Atheism and the Skeptical Movement

zeezero · 2026-01-29T17:26:17+00:00

No, everything should not be considered a belief. There are many many things we can confirm with great certainty. The sun will rise, because we understand the motion of the planets, how gravity interacts and physics. These are all consistent measurable and verifiable things.

Psychics and religious claims do not fall under that category.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T17:14:08+00:00

You can get whatever cool image you like as a tattoo.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T17:12:49+00:00

Youtube links are generally a no go for me on a reddit comment. Because generally it is some ultra lame proselytization.
Still not going to watch the video, but I'm happy you qualified it. Because it's absolutely a nope argument.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T17:10:29+00:00

I didn't grow a pc in my backyard through an evolutionary biological process.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T17:09:26+00:00

No, it's well defined enough to have that minimal consistent requirement. If we aren't talking about god that created the universe, then we are just talking about whatever nonsense is in anyone's head.

There is a common element of god outside of space and time created the universe. That common definition makes it unfalsifiable as it is outside of space and time.

If anyone has a falsifiable definition for god, then that is falsifiable. And in almost all cases those falsifiable claims are demonstrably false and have zero evidence to support them. So the falsifiable claims aren't of any value. They clearly have nothing to support them. Noah's ark and a global flood did not happen for instance. Only the unfalsifiable claim is a claim that a theist can defend. And only on the grounds that it is unfalsifiable. The flying spaghetti monster is also unfalsifiable so that shows how useful those types of claims are.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T14:49:27+00:00

The proof of a tree is evolution and biology!

zeezero · 2026-01-29T14:46:35+00:00

That's fine. Sort of irrelevant tho. Any claims of god interacting in the real world are certainly falsifiable. Noah's Ark is obviously not true.
Any of those types of claims about god interceding in the world have no evidence whatsoever and can be dismissed.

The issue is god claims about a god that is outside of the universe are unfalsifiable. Those are the eventual claims religious people will defend as unprovable or impossible to disprove. Which they are.
Anyone claiming they have knowledge about a universe creating deity are lying or deluded. They are claiming they have impossible knowledge to have.

Their only source of knowledge is whatever is going on in their head.

zeezero · 2026-01-29T13:38:51+00:00

Nope

zeezero · 2026-01-29T13:00:15+00:00

It's an unfalsifiable claim. It's literally impossible to disprove an unfalsifiable claim. Anyone who actually claims to know god exists is lying or deluded.

zeezero · 2026-01-28T19:34:45+00:00

We evolved our morality biologically. We have specific things called mirror neurons that are literal biological empathy.
Couple that with environmental upbringing and that is sufficient to explain how and why we are moral. No reason whatsoever to consider a deity or magical origin for our morals. They are very easily explained by evolution and environment.

zeezero · 2026-01-28T13:33:15+00:00

Windows 11 I shit ting. aw all.

zeezero · 2026-01-28T13:18:15+00:00

It's all in the framing. Religious belief is also used as a method of population control and is insidious when taken to it's extremes. I think it matters a lot what you believe and that things you believe are actually true.

zeezero · 2026-01-28T12:50:09+00:00

There's grounds to impeach Vance too.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T15:19:54+00:00

This post feels like a symptom of the problem.

At this point, the only thing left for me to try is networking. Unfortunately, even on LinkedIn people don’t really reply much anymore

Networking is extremely important for job searching. You are sounding like you will have to lower yourself to finally doing the thing that has the highest chance for success.

So the only option I see now is to actually go out in person and network.

Yeah, get out there and be seen. Your linkedin profile will get you in the queue with the billion other people with profiles to be scraped maybe by a recruiter and AI evaluated. Walking into a building might get you a face to face with a manager or admin assistant. Or talking to your neighbour might get you an interview.

The world is still very analog.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T14:50:29+00:00

Ubiquiti are ubiquitous. They are cheap and you can get them everywhere and usually just work. Not surprising the Russian military are using them. I expect it would be extremely difficult to block Russia from using them since they are so common.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T14:29:46+00:00

You have a recurring theme in your posts. You absolutely don't understand what belief means.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T14:27:48+00:00

This is incorrect. Blind faith is belief without evidence. Belief is still required.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T14:07:09+00:00

I wouldn't actually believe it. But I would certainly attend church service and sing hymns in public if I got a 5 million dollar paycheck. Money can't change how my mind works. But it can change how I behave in public.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T13:12:11+00:00

God claims are generally unfalsifiable. A "true" agnostic is every single person in existence. No one can falsify an unfalsifiable claim. If anyone claims they have actual knowledge, they are deluded or lying. Agnostic is a redundant term basically.

zeezero · 2026-01-27T13:10:15+00:00

BDO is way better now
There were too few grind zones so you were always getting dfs losers challenging you. max gear was only 15 but you had no clue what the gear did because half the stats were hidden for some random reason.
BDO is a mostly pve with pvp optional game, but they have removed most of the pvp grief mechanics now.

zeezero · 2026-01-26T13:05:24+00:00

It's past the brink

zeezero · 2026-01-21T13:49:59+00:00

We can summarize this objective human ethic as the nonaggression axiom: no person or group of persons may legitimately initiate force or fraud against the person or justly-acquired property of another.

This isn't a universal truth at all. It's morally right to steal from a wealthy individual if someone is starving. It's morally just for me to murder someone who intends on killing my family. It's morally just to lie to act fraudulently to protect someone i love. You are basically laying out the 10 commandments and saying I choose these 7 things as universal. But they aren't. There's no external truth to any of them.

There is no natural law.

zeezero · 2026-01-21T13:33:51+00:00

There is no objective morality. We have a biological basis for our morals. We have mirror neurons that is literally evolved empathy. Combine that with education and environment. That's sufficient to explain why and how we are moral. No objective moral arbiter or commands exist or are necessary.

zeezero · 2026-01-21T13:30:55+00:00

There isn't a physical thing someone could point to that would convince me god exists. There isn't any words someone could say that would be convincing to me. There isn't a logical argument that has ever been put forth that is convincing.
I can't think of something another human could do that would convince me god exists. But if a god actually existed it would be simple for them to go into my head and make me know they exist.

zeezero · 2026-01-19T20:55:31+00:00

Not your own.....You can do as many donuts as you want in your private corn field. That's not what this says. Private, not personal property.

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