exocrinous

joined 2 years ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

The argument from you. The argument constructed specifically by you. Your argument.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's all The Simpson's fault. They shouldn't have given people of colour human skin tones. Apu should be yellow.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You're underestimating the similarity of religions and overestimating the similarity of scientific paradigms

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Your dad has good taste in Trek, 7/9 and the doctor are the only good parts of that show and Janeway is racist to both of them.

Acoochiemoya.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Yeah no shit. You think if everyone's mind was wiped we'd still call a quark a quark? Nah, we'd have a different name for it. Maybe the political tensions in psychology wouldn't be between the psychoanalysts and the behaviourists, but between the diagnosticists and the freewillists. Maybe we'd skip the plum pudding model and decide rotating reference frames should be the default and centripedal force is an imaginary force that only exists when you use a silly linear reference frame. A LOT of science is subjective and culturally determined, mate. We're all just making this shit up as we go along. Theories persist because they're easy to arrive at and understand. Different interpretations of the same results appear all the time, like the many worlds interpretation saying superpositions can't actually collapse. That shit is subjective AF, there's no way of determining a "right" interpretation of quantum theory, at least not that we know of. We assume the universe's spacetime is flat because we haven't found a curve yet and we think we've looked really hard, but we don't know that. There are cultural contexts where proposing the existence of dark matter just because our math on the gravitational pull of galaxies turns out funky is a laughable idea.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Light hearted. It's a tone indicator

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah lol, haven't you heard of Quetzalcoatl? Or Sky Woman?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Yeah, I don't believe it. Religions all over the world have certain commonalities, and many of them contain knowledge that's just good ideas. Like, I don't think Buddhism is going away forever if all knowledge is forgotten. I don't think the Tao concept of the oneness of the universe is going away. FFS, George Lucas even tricked everyone into learning Taoist philosophy by calling it Jedi philosophy.

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