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not only is this post not a hot take, it is in fact evidence for its own truth
Broly cannot pull off a maid outfit, and the owner of this thread cannot prove me otherwise.
Anyways uh my hot take is that hating on Religion isn't a hot take anymore, its like a lukewarm take. Mildly warm. If my shower was the temperature of the take I wouldn't be pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised. Its a very boring and cynical take that just serves to paint religious people in a bad light for going against the more commonly accepted canon that big man Science provides
Religion as a whole isn't the cause of religious terrorism, violence, discrimination, etc; religion is just a scapegoat that assholes use to justify their actions
Of course there are shitty things about religion. There are shitty things about atheism too. There are shitty things about all religions and ideologies. There's no such thing as "the perfect ideology," and even if there was then we'd still find a way to make it shitty
All humans are capable of doing bad things, whether its due to scientifically explainable reasons, an religious force such as Satan, etc. To just say "religion bad because it make people do bad thing" is incredibly ironic, because you're essentially doing what these hypothetical bad religions are doing: using your ideology as a justification to hate people who think differently from you
If you genuinely, wholeheartedly, unironically believe that religion is just a sham and a negative influence on everything it touches, then I encourage you to expand your worldview. Talk to people who don't frequent Reddit. Partake in religious media. Learn more about religious cultures. Hell, even just listening to religious Youtubers has given me a slightly better understanding on different ideas and philosophies about religion. There are such a thing as religious echo chambers, sure, but anti-religion atheist fuckheads also seem to forget that there is such a thing as atheist echo chamber
Anyways TLDR; you can't sum up an entire set of beliefs as moronic and useless just because you don't agree with them, because then you're just as bad as the people you're criticising
Of course there are shitty things about religion. There are shitty things about atheism too. There are shitty things about all religions and ideologies. There's no such thing as "the perfect ideology," and even if there was then we'd still find a way to make it shitty
All humans are capable of doing bad things, whether its due to scientifically explainable reasons, an religious force such as Satan, etc. To just say "religion bad because it make people do bad thing" is incredibly ironic, because you're essentially doing what these hypothetical bad religions are doing: using your ideology as a justification to hate people who think differently from you
If you genuinely, wholeheartedly, unironically believe that religion is just a sham and a negative influence on everything it touches, then I encourage you to expand your worldview. Talk to people who don't frequent Reddit. Partake in religious media. Learn more about religious cultures. Hell, even just listening to religious Youtubers has given me a slightly better understanding on different ideas and philosophies about religion. There are such a thing as religious echo chambers, sure, but anti-religion atheist fuckheads also seem to forget that there is such a thing as atheist echo chamber
Anyways TLDR; you can't sum up an entire set of beliefs as moronic and useless just because you don't agree with them, because then you're just as bad as the people you're criticising
I'm getting sick of the arrangement of our four dimensional as observed universe.
Now before you pitchfork me I'm using the language of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time for our current predicament.
I am simply saying that I would be better off with four dimensions of space and zero dimensions of time. And my selfish nature means I don't particularly care if it would benefit you but I would offer my rationale regardless because I'm selfish and like to hear myself think.
If we eliminate the dimension of time, things stop getting older. You stop aging, and your body can never advance to a new medical problem.
More to the point, you'll never see Smogoff users referring to themselves as infants during the heyday of generation 5.
Not because they stopped aging but because if there's no dimension of time, then there's no location for the past to exist either and we all have regrets we'd like to truly erase, I imagine.
Like updating a software application and having the new release be worse. Without time, there will be no concept of a newer version. Thus eliminating one of the relatable modern inconveniences, just before eliminating the concept of modernity.
And aren't you tired of living through so much history? These historic events we share wallowing in the proverbial pissed in ball pit we call every day of life simply disappear.
No more interesting times if there's no more times.
And finally, I'd like to fully perceive a hypercube. I think it'd be neat.
No more time dimension. 4 dimensions of space.
Now before you pitchfork me I'm using the language of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time for our current predicament.
I am simply saying that I would be better off with four dimensions of space and zero dimensions of time. And my selfish nature means I don't particularly care if it would benefit you but I would offer my rationale regardless because I'm selfish and like to hear myself think.
If we eliminate the dimension of time, things stop getting older. You stop aging, and your body can never advance to a new medical problem.
More to the point, you'll never see Smogoff users referring to themselves as infants during the heyday of generation 5.
Not because they stopped aging but because if there's no dimension of time, then there's no location for the past to exist either and we all have regrets we'd like to truly erase, I imagine.
Like updating a software application and having the new release be worse. Without time, there will be no concept of a newer version. Thus eliminating one of the relatable modern inconveniences, just before eliminating the concept of modernity.
And aren't you tired of living through so much history? These historic events we share wallowing in the proverbial pissed in ball pit we call every day of life simply disappear.
No more interesting times if there's no more times.
And finally, I'd like to fully perceive a hypercube. I think it'd be neat.
No more time dimension. 4 dimensions of space.
Hating on religion is a form of saying “hey look how quirky i am”
a non-religion hot take for once because why not
Smogoff is the best place on the forum
Smogoff is the best place on the forum
That take is pretty cold ngl
seconded, haven't played pokemon in months
playing yokai watch counts as playing pokemon
care to elaborate mr. wrong opinion
Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Time for a speed round of some of my own hot takes.
1. The only real reason gas prices are going up is because today’s cars get more miles per gallon so the companies need to charge more per gallon to compensate
2. People who watch anime can’t complain about trend watching because watching anime in and of itself is a trend (not exactly smogoff material here but Pokémon doesn’t count as an anime while I’m on the subject)
3. Big businesses have more power in the modern world than the governments of whatever country you live in (think Amazon, Google, Microsoft, those kinds of guys)
4. The COVID-19 pandemic was actually a good thing in just as many ways as it was bad, despite the bad parts admittedly being pretty bad (people were notably home with their families more)
5. The U.N. probably has a 100% definitive cure for COVID-19 but just like the cure to cancer thing, isn’t releasing it because there’s money to be made
1. The only real reason gas prices are going up is because today’s cars get more miles per gallon so the companies need to charge more per gallon to compensate
2. People who watch anime can’t complain about trend watching because watching anime in and of itself is a trend (not exactly smogoff material here but Pokémon doesn’t count as an anime while I’m on the subject)
3. Big businesses have more power in the modern world than the governments of whatever country you live in (think Amazon, Google, Microsoft, those kinds of guys)
4. The COVID-19 pandemic was actually a good thing in just as many ways as it was bad, despite the bad parts admittedly being pretty bad (people were notably home with their families more)
5. The U.N. probably has a 100% definitive cure for COVID-19 but just like the cure to cancer thing, isn’t releasing it because there’s money to be made
This guy’s goals are beyond our understanding. Despite the controversial nature of the post that I had created, this supposed mortal has surpassed all barriers of human knowledge and provided the most intelligently complex response that the human race has ever known.
Oh. My apologies. I’ll admit that I’ve fallen for the stereotype that male terms are the default terms before.
You've got it backwards. If there's no money to be made, the cure isn't developed at all. Society isn't at the point where research is supported enough to pursue something like a viral cure without money coming in from somewhere. Unlike several other diseases, there is money to be made with covid, that's why the vaccines were made so much faster than for other viruses.
the girl reading this is not that cute.
Suggesting that there could be a cure for the wildly varying class of diseases that is cancer really shows that you have no idea what you are talking about