Cinema Sins

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Rararboker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Look at religion.

Let's take a look at religion. It survived for so very long because it was the best explanation available (as laughable as it may seem now, it's true) for many different questions: where did we come from, what is the nature of the universe, how did such a diverse number of species come about. It has been on the way out because we have come up with better explanations for these things. Astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology have all found alternatives that provide more rational explanations to these questions. Men like Darwin, Hubble, and Galileo provide us with the basis for refuting the bad idea of religion. Rational people will weigh the evidence and so the only way to push mankind forward is to do what you can to create new evidence (i.e. research). Irrational/emotion-driven people aren't going to be swayed by reason. So fighting these internet feminists (who are all irrational) is about the most futile act one can engage in.

[Ahldagor]

OP is beginning to cope with the reality of the ineffectiveness. They're still in a stage of denial, but it will progress.

[Bboboo]

Cinema Toast Sins

[LostCause]

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[Skittlez]

Originally Posted by LostCause [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Lol

[myriverse]

Religion was never the best explanation available for any of those things. It's all about social conformity and maintaining a ruling class.

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Religion was never the best explanation available for any of those things. It's all about social conformity and maintaining a ruling class.

You have the benefit of centuries of knowledge accumulation to fall back on. If you could put yourself in the mind of an iron age person, you would understand that it was the best they could come up with on such limited information.

[Bboboo]

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[Orruar]

Surely you realize that all religions start with a description of the world and then proscribe actions based upon that reality. Even if we grant the notion that all religion is "about social conformity", it gets there through first explaining the world (usually invoking a creator in the process) in order to try and give some rationale for its later descriptions on what behavior should be avoided or encouraged. The description of the natural world is part of the very foundation upon which all of the control rests. And it's this description that has been completely decimated by science.

Internet forum warriors have done somewhat less work in getting rid of bad ideas.