Drinking the Kool-Aid
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Okay, so a lot of people have called me arrogant and pretentious.
It may be true.
But when I say that what you believe is wrong, I am not trying to come off that way.
I have drank every glass of Kool-aid that has come my way.
First I drank the New Age Kool-Aid, then I bought the Christianity Kool-Aid, then I bought the Communist Kool-Aid, then for some reason I bought the Islam Kool-Aid.
So, many people now like to say that I drank the Atheist Kool-Aid.
Lets talk about that.
What is the atheist Kool-Aid?
Where if there is Atheist Kool-Aid, it would have to be just following the crowd, uncritically.
When I decided that God is very unlikely to exist, and that the Abrahamic God is even more unlikely, I had 0 atheist friends.
I knew people who were atheists, but we didn't talk about it.
In fact when I decided to quit religion, I was all alone.
I stayed alone for a long time.
Pretty lame Kool-Aid.
It took me about a year to connect and organize with other atheists, and even that is mostly just working for separation of Church and State Law, and working for better Science Education.
Those are both causes that I would have fought for when I still believed in God.
Wow, where is the Kool-Aid again?
Must be that freedom and education Kool-Aid that I drank, oh, I don't know, when I learned about Thomas Jefferson in Jr. High.
Damnit! I am such a fucking tool!
I wish I could just quit being such a follower.
I know, I'm going to join MBLA, the pedophile's rights group.
Thats probably what I would have to do, to convince everyone that what I am doing is not intended to impress anyone into accepting me.
I am legitimately fighting against the influence that religion has in society because I really do think its harmful.
I am also fighting against the fact that most people are not scientifically literate, and have not learned to apply basic logical investigative techniques in their inquiry.
I am fighting for people to consider inquiry in general an important part of their lives.
Is this the inquiry Kool-Aid?
Okay, okay your right, maybe I did drink the inquiry Kool-Aid, so I will switch to fighting for ignorance.
As a champion of ignorance, I am conforming to no one.
And the very best part of my decision to dedicate my life to spreading ignorance in society, is that I seem to have already won.
AWESOME!
Your life is a love story!
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Quote:And the very best part
Um....I think you mean a champion of fighting ignorance.
"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
-Me
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I dunno if you read the
I dunno if you read the whole thing, but by the end he claims to have switched to being FOR ignorance and so on. Hence, writing the "spreading" of ignorance is consistent with the rest of it.
"Jesus -- the other white Moses" - Me.
Ya,he was being
Ya,he was being sarcastic.
Good point though Mindcore. Sometimes I envy people who believe they have the answers and are content to stop learning and go through life ignorant.But rarely.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.