Album Rating: 4.0
Oh, Hey Guys. Whatcha doin in hur?
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Oh this is gonna sound totally gay, but last year when that Thursday album came out I was studying electromagnetism so when the song "Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart" was playing while I was studying I totally flipped a bitch and got really excited that there was reference to it in there."
Okay, I just shit a little inside my pants.
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@crazyblinddude/@Stokes me too
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Album Rating: 5.0
"thought it said Physics for a moment and it blew my mind"
Physics is false.... universe doesnt exist?!?!
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Album Rating: 5.0
Of course you dont, the majority of america loves being willfully ignorant.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lol did you check your horoscope before you decided to make that post
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Album Rating: 5.0
"lol u sound dum"
How else do you explain the fact that 4 in 10 americans believe in "strict creationism" ?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx
Or the fact that America ranks 33rd in industrialized countries polled based on their belief in evolution. 33rd. Thats behind LATVIA, LITHUANIA and Bulgaria FFS and just 1 up from turkey.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/14/science/sciencespecial2/20050815_EVO_GRAPHIC.html
If that isnt a country of "willfully ignorant" people i dont know what is. This country is so scientifically inept its sad and people who believe and continue to perpetuate pseudoscience bullshit like psychics, astrology and other nonsense just help contribute to the ignorance which has a real effect on issues that are important such as global warming, education and environmentalism.
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Soybean, I think that's to be expected from a country that was founded largely on the idea of Christianity, you know? I'm not saying that's right or wrong, but looking at the United States' past I think it makes sense that we're where we are.
Also, I'm not by any means religious or into the things you mentioned, but the thing with spiritual activities is that you can't prove/disprove them. Maybe it's nonsense, or maybe it actually does take place- if there IS a god, he could totally be pulling a trick on us and creating science to test us and our faith. That's how I see it :]
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Album Rating: 4.0
"the majority of america loves being willfully ignorant."
This is a commonly stated misnomer, only a pompous fool truly believes this.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Please explain how only a fool would believe that when literally every statistic says otherwise. Please point me to an article with statistics indicating that america is on the rise in education and not plummeting into 3rd world levels of scientific apptitude and literacy.
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There's a difference between being "willfully ignorant" and being religious/spiritual. If you truly believe they're one and the same, then that's an awfully intolerant way to look at things...
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Album Rating: 5.0
I never said being spiritual or religious = dumb americans lol. The fact is pseudoscience contributes to the lack of scientific literacy in this country. I'm sorry if its hard to swallow but religion and pseudoscience and superstition have a detrimental impact on society and specifically this country.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Also the idea that the country was "founded on the idea of christianity" is completely false. Puritans and seperatists were fleeing persecution. Everyone in the 16th century was religious and when it actually came time to "found" the country, ie the revolution and drafting the declaration the majority of those in charge, jefferson, franklin, adams were agnostic or atheist. Jefferson stated nothing good has ever come out of christianity and actually tore up his bible and tried to write a new on, franklin said lighthouses are more valuable than churches and so on. The rampant indulgence of christianity didn't come until later when we started putting stupid slogans on our coins like "in god we trust" during the 1950s in response to anti soviet/communist sentement.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah umm I'm pretty sure they were just against the institution of religion, but were not
atheists/agnostic. Jefferson even referred to himself as a Christian. And to dispute the claim that
there is no influence from religion in founding of the US is pretty hilarious. Sorry.
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Album Rating: 4.5
american atheist here
soybean you're fucking retarded
And to dispute the claim that there no influence from religion in founding of the US is pretty hilarious. Sorry.
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I never said being spiritual or religious = dumb americans lol. The fact is pseudoscience contributes to the lack of scientific literacy in this country. I'm sorry if its hard to swallow but religion and pseudoscience and superstition have a detrimental impact on society and specifically this country.
You may not have said dumb Americans, but you did say willfully ignorant in addition to the last sentence above. Also, you stated:
religion and pseudoscience and superstition have a detrimental impact on society
Superstition, I can agree with. However, outside of cases like same-sex marriage or abortion, (most) religion serves as a construct to teach ethical concepts. There will always be people who will manipulate religious teachings, but this is human nature and a fact of society. I wouldn't say the US was founded on the "idea" of Christianity, but most laws today are- if not directly compliant with Christian teachings- derived from the ethical lessons taught in that religion (and others but whatever).
Psuedoscience, I won't touch; even psychology was once considered psuedoscientific so say whatever you will
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but were not atheists/agnostic
agnosticism and theism are not mutually exclusive, and it is entirely possible that one or more of the founders were agnostic.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah umm I'm pretty sure they were just against the institution of religion, but were not
atheists/agnostic. Jefferson even referred to himself as a Christian. And to dispute the claim that
there is no influence from religion in founding of the US is pretty hilarious. Sorry.
No, whats hilarious is that you people keep replying back with absolute lies and fallacies and just keep falling back on the argument of "lol soybean you are dumb"
Do some research, what i said is well known and established. Here are some quotes for you:
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782"
You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, June 25, 1819
Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820
http://nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm
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Album Rating: 5.0
John Adams:
“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”
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"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
[Benjamin Franklin, in _Toward The Mystery_]
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lol soybean, you are so dumb with all your "facts"
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that's all perfectly fine but you have yet to respond to my post or:
And to dispute the claim that there no influence from religion in founding of the US is pretty hilarious
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