Beemo Dinosaurierfuß

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  • That might be true in the US, but that is certainly untrue in other parts of the world, where college/university is way cheaper/free and the pay difference a degree makes can be huge.

    I live in Germany and I think it almost always pays off to ge to university, at least if you are interested in anything even close to MINT.
    And even in non MINT areas a higher degree opens many doors that otherwise are really hard to get into.




  • I mean I get your point and for all intents and purposes I don’t even necessarily disagree.

    I just wanted to add this little factoid, since I think using “octopi” instead of the at least equally as correct “octopuses” shows that one tries to follow the etymology of the word.
    And if you try to do that, the etymologically correct plural is “octopodes”.

    Then again I hesitated even answering you, since I am by no means one of those weirdos that has a problem with language changing.

    For all I care we can talk about octopussies and octopiarians or whatever, but as someone that had to learn latin as a child, the use of octopi just kind of itches my brain.

    But it is all good, I get what you are saying and my first post was never meant as a negative critique of OP and more as a fun fact.





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    9 months ago

    I didn’t want to reply at all because it is starting to get ridiculous and noone else keeps reading this.

    But please just for the sake of being honest, show me where I am intolerant or hateful?
    I replied to other comments in this thread as well, there should be plenty to pick from.

    Show me my intolerance, show me my hate.

    I even make it easier for you.

    I think religion is a cancer to society.
    I think all religions are basically cults.

    Make a straightforward argument how my statements are either hateful or intolerant.

    Because while those statements are my honest opinion, I am still strongly in favour of freedom of religion.
    I would never forbid anyone from practicing their religion as long as they don’t infringe on someone else’s rights in doing so.
    I don’t hate anyone for being religious. There are wonderful religious people.

    Still I think they are wonderful despite their religion, not because of it.

    I don’t even hate you, despite your ongoing insults towards me.
    I just think you are very wrong on a fundamental level and haven’t yet learned to deal with being told so.



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    I think you understand neither what a skepticist is, nor how religion or free churches work.

    Well you’re wrong in both, but I am curious why you would think that.

    And by your logic I assume you have to be an anarchist,

    Hilariously wrong here.

    since every government that ever existed - or society for that matter - has exercised some form of suppression.

    Care to explain what that has to do with anything I said in this thread?

    I think your overgeneralizing, intollerant way of thinking is sickening and hardly better than that of a racist or sexist.

    And I think you resort to personal insults because you have no valid arguments against my positions.
    But please humor me and tell me how I am intolerant in an comparable way to a racist or sexist.

    And please don’t tell me what my beliefs are. That’s pretty church-y of you.

    I’m a pansexual protestant Christian

    Are you kidding me? You told about your beliefs yourself.

    And it’s especially rich after your whole post made assumptions about me.


  • The sheer arrogance to post a philosophical minority opinion paired with an insult and then end it with a sigh.

    And while I am not particularly familiar with Mr. Antony’s work I can tell you that he either didn’t understand or purposefully misused Hitchen’s Razor insofar as you indeed can not apply it to Atheism the same way you can apply it to christianity.
    The reason for that being that there is no particular thing at all you have to believe to be an atheist.
    Atheism in and of itself doesn’t assert anything at all.
    So there is nothing that could be dismissed.

    Atheism says there is no reason to believe in god.
    How does Hitchen’s Razor dismiss that? It doesn’t.

    Not to mention your quote still is no argument towards the positive existence of god.

    And if you don’t show me how I am supposed to be intolerant, I will take it as the baseless insult that it is and will no longer discuss with you.