Because nobody actually answers the question. "Because it's bullshit" is the least interesting, least informative answer you can give to a question like this, and it does nothing except make the commenter feel clever. It gets especially annoying when legitimate answers are buried under dozens of "because God doesn't exist I'm so smart." Now an answer could reject the premise that a creator exists and sitll be interesting, but it'd have to do better than the armchair anthropology everyone here seems so fond of.
richieadler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Discussing about a being whose existence cannot be verified in reality is an exercise in futility.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy, pure math and string theory, but also: Then don't fucking answer the question. Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.
richieadler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t care a iota about philosophy, in fact.
Pure math is a self-contained system that only occasionally is useful in reality
String theory has no full international scientific consensus, so for now is just a possible model of reality. Does it bother you?
You seem to think I recognize your authority to give me orders. I don’t.
As long as they postulate it as fiction, I don’t have an issue with that. The moment they posit they ideas are real, they’re exposed to scrutiny to some of those who care about what’s real and what’s not.
As a final note, your tantrum is somewhat amusing, but in a different sense is somewhat sad. Make of that what you want.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
... Wow. I'm going to hope for the sake of everyone you'll ever meet that you're just 14 or something.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, he’s giving you free advice on how not to be an insufferable dickhead in public; advice that you seem to desperately need, and this is coming from an atheist, before you think I am playing team sports.
It’s a very simple concept: if all you’re contributing to a conversation is the equivalent of coming into the room and violently jerking yourself off while going “hurrrr look how big my dick is” you’re being actively detrimental to the conversation no matter if you’re right or wrong.
You can engage with the conversation while disagreeing with the premise, that is not what you’re doing. You are just being a smug teenage dickhead who needs to butt into every conversation to, if nothing else, reinforce the idea that there should be harsher barriers to being on the internet in the mind of everyone looking at your “contributions.”