Seriously, I weep for the future of humanity based on the kind of crap that I see online all the time. People who, while legally adults, they simply cannot think or react as anything but little immature children and then, when they get called out on it, they can do nothing but scream and cry and throw temper tantrums.
A while back now, I did a video over on YouTube where I took a look at the Cosmic Skeptic, Alex O’Connor and pointed out that, at least when it came to specific charity claims that he was making, he was going entirely off the rational reservation.
Since then, I’ve looked at a couple of his videos here and there and then, I saw this video from the Non-Alchemist addressing it and I thought I needed to respond. Instead of heading to YouTube though, I really wanted to take an in-depth look, so here we go. Links to videos concerned will be below the fold. Continue reading That’s Not Going to Convince Anyone!→
Let’s be honest, the new trend toward NFTs and cryptocurrencies are a complete scam, a tax on the gullible and stupid who have more dollars than sense. Yet it doesn’t stop people from being dumb, does it? It doesn’t stop people from just wanting things so much that they’d rather hand over their hard-earned cash for, effectively nothing.
I keep telling myself that I won’t respond to this because it isn’t going to change anything, but every once in a while, I have to, because this time, it wasn’t just once. I could ignore it if it was once. It was twice in a row that Matt Dillahunty lost the intellectual thread and started ranting.
How many times have you run into this one? You’ll be talking to a theist and they will tell you exactly what you think. They don’t ask, they tell. They explain that they know you better than you know yourself. Why? Because they can’t face a world where everyone isn’t fundamentally exactly the same as they are.
So here’s a story for you. This has to do with a major U.S. insurer that we have a very long relationship with. We’ve had all of our cars with them since the early 1990s. That said, this has nothing at all to do with car insurance. It just shows how little big companies give a damn about their customers.
So I do this from time to time. Some people would think that I do it constantly, but sometimes, I have to just look at some of the content online, often from a far-left perspective, and wonder exactly what they were thinking.
Then, I remember they weren’t. They were just reacting emotionally.
This is one of those things that, as I’m sure you can understand, got sparked by watching a bunch of videos over on The Atheist Experience. That should come as no surprise to anyone, but since today, as I’m writing this, is Thanksgiving, I had a lot of time, sitting around and waiting for the food to cook, so I spent it watching some YouTube videos.
I’m in the middle of a discussion with someone on this and I thought it would be easier to get my thoughts out on it here than to try to do it on a forum somewhere, so here we go.
Why are people not willing to just throw money out, just because producers really want them to? Let’s take a look at it because a lot of people can’t figure out why it doesn’t work. Continue reading The Cost/Benefit Analysis→
Now Drew over at Genetically Modified Skeptic put up a video about how he’s managed to cope with the loss of his religion over the period of five years since he regained some semblance of sanity and while I think some of the points he made are good, I had a lot of things that I wanted to comment on and some of the things that I’ve learned in the 35+ years since I walked away from Christianity. So here I go and I hope that it can help people who are struggling with the change. Continue reading Deconstructing Religion→