Hold on. Full stop for a second.

People will throw scientific studies around like they are the word of 'God'. As defined above. I _know_ you've seen this. The scientific _philosophy_ knows its fallible.

People that reference science do so with little imagination for any other possibility.

This is something religious people will do too.

I don't.

Yes, it is.

But this is not how it is _used_ or thought of by society.

People _do_ rely on science as a 'truthful' guide. Even when science does change.

You do, actually.

You see it used often in specific ideologies. Including your own, probably. But any ideology that cites 'scientific data' as a resource of belief.

It's almost _exactly_ the same.

Kind-of funnily, most eminent scientists were a form of religious.

That doesn't really matter though.

We'll use feminism, I guess.

You've seen feminists cite bad science to give credibility to their worldview, I'm sure.

1 in 4 men, for example.

Science is derivative of the 'truth' concept developed by religion, too.

Again, that doesn't really matter, just an aside.

Look at Bill Nye the Science Guy's new show.

I'm muddying nothing. I'm trying to bring clarity to you about how science is corrupted to dubious end like religion can be.

It ... is a belief system. You can ask other atheists what they believe in.

And they'll tell you science and reason or some other version of it.

Religion is ideally built on duplicated events as well.

This is why religions borrow from each other, but I'll use an easy example.

I'm about to.

Sodom and Gomorrah is a story about what.

Just summarize it for me.

What happens.

How?

The city burned down, he smite them, destruction ... whatever, generally what happens is a bunch of people got real gay, boned down, and 'god' destroyed them, agreed?

We're living a replication of it.

As did Rome.

Don't view God as a man on a cloud, but instead the unalterable universe as we understand it and our behaviour therein.

That is what God is intended to represent.

It does, actually.

So if you bone a homosexual, you have a higher risk (much higher risk) of contracting AIDS. You also disrupt the family-unit.

There are longstanding repercussions for choosing to be gay, you can be more specific, too.

I mean, whatevs. If you believe your actions have consequences, then you believe the universe cares who you bone.

Or there wouldn't be negative consequences.

And it isn't necessarily because the universe is sentient, but because this is how the universe is laid-out.

I'd, personally, argue that the universe is sentient, but I'm not gonna convince you of that, today.

I also don't _know_ for certain it is. I should say, I can see how it might be.

Sort-of how atheists can see how humans are mechanistic, moving cogs of matter.

If you want to go down this rabbit-hole, then you should read about occultism.

Organized religion has actually sought to destroy any kind of gnosticism.

Which ... unites the material and metaphysical.

Start maybe with Egyptian mythology.

Hermes Trismegistus, specifically.

They didn't understand gods how we understand gods, commonly, now.

Their perception was much more reasoned and understood.

Dems are cleaving further left. There's plenty of evidence to support the idea that political division is growing.

There is a study, somewhere, of baseline questions for political unity over time.

What was his point?

Globalization is bad?

Oh, the opposite?

Globalization is obviously bad.

I would take the position the negative overwhelming outweighs the positive.

Globalization, put really simply, is consolidating power into one, global, governance.

Yeah the EU is well underway.

Doesn't deter her from marching forward, annoyingly.

We have equally frightening movements in the US. Google is _horrifying_.

Sam Harris is pretty based for being an atheist.

It's frustrating how people look at political overthrow, now.

It is in our constitution that we _should_ overthrow the government by force.

If the government becomes irreparably corrupt.

Americans don't even understand how they're being manipulated most of the time.

Americans are 80% drooling retards.

I'll put it this way, most Americans -- all that I know personally -- are unaware of the unconscious mind and the influences surrounding them.

They'll sort-of understand it post-fact, but when it comes to continuous media/political manipulation, totally blind.

I don't know how that implies I have a 'terrible understanding of globalization'.

I'll assume you're trolling.

Yeah.

Here's an interesting thing I was reading about the other day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

As far as psychological manipulation. But this is a pretty unimportant example.

People don't understand symbolism is hard-coded into the brain, either. An example that uses this technique in abundance: American Horror Story. Hugely successful series due to their use of symbolism -- also rife with queer shit.

But symbolism is used everywhere.

Subtly acting on the subconscious without people knowing.

Yeah, I agree.

Tyberius are you autistic.

You're talking about Manifest Destiny -- which was a form of globalization, but the word extends past America's ambitions.

You autistic turd.

You've got a mad-punchable face.

>atheist >globalist

Actual scum.

I'm not denying America's participation in globalization. You're literally just arguing with a position you assume I had, but I made no indication that I had.

'Go on your history'

What.

Look, you're either a troll or a retard because no sane person _is_ a globalist.

I suspect retard.

Based on that face, I also suspect retard.

Prosperous _in what way_.

We're approaching the most spiritually bereft and personally meaningless period in human history.

I don't really give a fuck if we have more money when most of us don't own our homes.

Whenever someone drops that, 'it's better to live now than ever before' line, it just tells me they don't know much about any other culture but their own.

And they've definitely never looked at anarcho-primitive societies.

Liptonius, why?

If because of some defect when you were born, you might underestimate the relative health of hunter-gatherer society vs. modern.

Allergies are increasing in frequency and severity due to how we live.

Do you know much about allergies because they function a lot more strangely than you may think.