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Mrebo

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#1202869
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Random Thoughts
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moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

http://www.grunge.com/14813/basic-facts-neil-degrasse-tyson-gotten-wrong/

That article only points out some off-the-cuff statements that were wrong in some cases.

Good eye.

The article loses all credibility when it says that he was too insensitive to people’s thoughts on Christmas. I hate this idea that we all have to celebrate other people’s holidays.

That’s not what it says. Even if you agree with his trolling doesn’t make it not trolling. And the article can’t lose all credibility once you’ve admitted the truth of part of it.

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#1202781
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Random Thoughts
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moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Neil is a real scientist. And making fun of Christmas on Twitter doesn’t make him a dick.

Sure it does.

No it doesn’t. If you want to see someone being a dick about Christmas, I’ll do it for you. Christmas is a shithole holiday for hypocrites. That’s being dickish, and I won’t apologize for it.

You have more of an argument with Bill Nye being a celebrity more than a scientist, but you can’t deny that he is extremely intelligent and knows what the fuck he’s talking about.

I’ll deny both things.

Well, then you’re wrong.

I think the, “you’re wrong because I said so” thing is better kept in Politics 😛

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#1202727
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Jeebus said:

Mrebo said:

http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/02/reuters-poll-black-male-approval-for-trump-doubles-in-one-week/

This really doesn’t seem all that significant, considering the small sample size and the tendency for fluctuation in opinions among that demographic.

I think looking at Kanye’s approval rating might be more telling 😉

Good point. Still that makes me wonder why there has been as high an approval rating as there has been. A headline, “20% of blacks approve of white supremacist president,” would be tough to reconcile.

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#1202575
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Per Wiki:

In a 2000 WSJ poll of an “ideologically balanced group of 132 prominent professors of history, law, and political science” Reagan ranked 8th among presidents.

In 2012, Newsweek magazine asked a panel of historians to rank the ten best Presidents since 1900. The results showed that historians had ranked Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama as the best since that year.

In a 2010 Gallup poll, 74% of respondents rated Reagan favorably.

In a 2014 Quinnipiac poll, Reagan was chosen as the greatest president since WWII by the greatest number of respondents. Same in their 2018 poll.

The sense of his popularity I have fits with those numbers and undercuts the idea it’s a strict partisan divide.

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#1202474
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

We the Democratic party to move to the left and abandon all of it’s corporate bullshit holdovers from the Reagan era. Reagan had a horrible administration by the way.

I didn’t think you were that old.

Since when do you have to live through a historical event to be educated on it?

Quite often. Being sufficiently educated to pass a meaningful value judgment on an administration or historical event is generally not an easy task. Sounded like you were speaking based on your own experience of that time, especially since the consensus is that Reagan was terrific 😉

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#1202429
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Religion
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I’ve entertained the possibility that peoples’ different deitities may be their own imperfect way of seeking to understand God. Seems plausible. Then there are those who recognize there is God but decide they’re going to worship a golden cow, which is a different animal.

To darthrush’s point, all of our experience is subjective but that doesn’t mean there isn’t in fact one true God.

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#1202402
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Religion
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chyron8472 said:

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

Well it’s like I said the Bible was written by men thousands of years ago so you can’t really take much of what it says literally. I don’t care much for the Bible, that doesn’t mean I can’t believe in God.

Of course you can believe in God. It just doesn’t make you right. Or wrong. You’re just guessing along with everyone else with an opinion on it.

Obviously

I know but some people think it’s not only not obvious, it’s in fact wrong.

Bet chyron thinks the existence of God is obvious.

To me.

Sure. But assuming you don’t think yourself specially endowed with God sensing power, it’s something that could be obvious to anyone. They just have to know where to look.

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#1202397
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Religion
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TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

Well it’s like I said the Bible was written by men thousands of years ago so you can’t really take much of what it says literally. I don’t care much for the Bible, that doesn’t mean I can’t believe in God.

Of course you can believe in God. It just doesn’t make you right. Or wrong. You’re just guessing along with everyone else with an opinion on it.

Obviously

I know but some people think it’s not only not obvious, it’s in fact wrong.

This goes right to my point. Bet chyron thinks the existence of God is obvious.

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#1202381
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Religion
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TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The latter part regarding the misogyny and anti-gay stuff is the kind of religiosity I’m referring to when I say that we shouldn’t be expected to respect religion. If you think that homosexuality is a crime against god, then I don’t respect your opinion and I don’t think that anyone should respect your opinion. If you believe women shouldn’t be allowed to drive, or should be forced to wrap themselves in burkas and other oppressive garb, then I don’t respect your opinion. The list goes on and on. It doesn’t necessarily mean that I find all of those individuals that think that way to be totally unworthy of respect, but their religious views are. I don’t think that that’s unreasonable and no one else should either.

If I’m allowed to play devil’s advocate (guess chyron needs new representation), it wasn’t long ago that the consensus thought oppositely: that accepting gender norm heresies meant one’s opinion didn’t deserve respect.

The tables have turned on religion, at least in most Western countries, but how are we to grapple with “truth” in an objective way? Is it all about consensus?

How about just letting people live their lives? Why can’t there be a consensus about that?

“Gender norm heresies” don’t hurt anyone.

I don’t contest that. But what makes it objectively true?

Why does it matter?

I don’t get what treating people nicely has to do with objective truth. Frankly I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

My point goes exactly to the importance of “truth.” When does it matter?

Treating people nicely and holding certain religious views about gender aren’t necessarily at odds with each other.