i actually fear what leftists will do now

because they think the right did this

@Dr.Wol you have a fact if you have a modernist epistemology

Yes, I have called that as soon as the story broke.

I would argue the same is true in religion

i would argue that the same is true for your mom gay lmao

Religion is not designed to be tested.

if you have a post-modern epistemology you merely have the dominant power structure

Many religions are designed to be tested.

You can apply the scientific method to religion, but then you will find that our scientific models are better.

Philosophy is questiosn that may never be answered
Religion is answered that may never be questioned

this is a witty sentance without much substantive meaning

#magabomber is trending

And that works for "truth" Atkins, but for facts it doesn't

Thats why Trans people systematically outperform women in sports,

Men are superior physically, that is a fact,
And no amount of "I want to believe" will change it

You can go to a Buddhist temple and ask the same question to every Brahman there and each one would give you their own answer.

as a centrist i am only half religious, obviously

Yes, let's stick with that exmaple.

Male and female relative accomplishment.

According to the scientific method, we collect observations.

We are reasonably sure because we have observed a lot of men and women.

But it's not impossible we haven't made the right observations, but as the number of observations increase, them all being wrong becomes very unlikely.

@Dr.Wol you need to learn to step outside the modernist worldview because your enemies live outside its confines.

However, it does not change the fact that it remains a stochastic process.

you need to learn to understand how they think

otherwise all your facts and logic and reason will fail you

In a way, everything about science is a series of statistical observations.

sounds like liberalism to me

So nothing is ever proven.

Not proven about reality at least.

You can make proofs by formulating axioms and rules of inference.

But the axioms are only as accurate as the observations of reality they match.

@Atkins they will not, and you're talking shit,

You're arguing about the fact that those in power make the rules,
But those in power can't change reality,

They can only compel me to say what they say
But they can't change reality

these are people who believe, if not explicitly than implicitly, that the world we inhabit is merely a consensual hallucination, and if all participants believe something it becomes fact

it doesn't

thats why Truth is not the same as Fact

you and i believe that

they don't

and they have power

(((they)))

it doesn't matter, Facts are static, you can't change them

Truth is in the eye of the beholder

I don't like the distinction between truth and fact.