I feel like there’s a lot of these, where someone says “how do you explain [extremely basic, everyday thing] without [religion]?”, it’s kinda weird. Like being a certain level of religious makes you immune to all common sense.
Get scattered
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Ibaudia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 10 months ago
In my experience of these zealot types, it's that they don't want to know the answer, and won't accept any answer that isn't literally bulletproof all the way back to the beginning of time - no matter what you tell them, God did it.
It's like playing a pigeon at chess. It'll shit on the board and then strut around like it won.
ameancow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
These are emotional people with absolutely no care or enjoyment for reason or logic or learning how the world works. I believe strongly that the way our brains develop as we grow, be it influences from environment or genes or upbringing, just can go in radically different directions. Kind of like how some people have no internal monologue, or some people can’t visualize images in their mind, I think some people can’t comprehend the world outside of a very “mystical” interpretation, even when taught how physics and evolution work, they still will see those forces as expressions of a mystical universe with a personal, subjective God who is trying to communicate with them.
You absolutely cannot reason with this kind of perspective because it’s not one of reason. The MOST you can hope for is getting them to feel something, and in this I have only ever found common ground in things like expressions of love for the universe or the beauty of nature, but that’s like one person going to the baseball game to watch the game, and the other to eat the food.
jaden@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Well that’s a fairly consistent pov. “God of the Gaps” is what it’s called. Ostensibly, that sort of person accepts new evidence for things, so it’s probably not one of the worst ways to think
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
won’t accept any answer that isn’t literally bulletproof
Quite fitting, then, that the Venn diagram of people who would literally shoot bullets at a question and people who are religious is pretty much a circle 😉
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 months ago
I think what they are trying to say is that the emotional experience they have when they look at a sunset is similar to the emotional experience that gives them conviction that there is a God. It's not a statement of objective fact about the universe and its processes; it's a statement about their mental and emotional life and how they want to feel inside their own head.
Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.
gnutrino@programming.dev 10 months ago
Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.
There is still a decent chance it’s the second tbh. Fucking magnets/tide goes in etc.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
God’s just a burst of dopamine.
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like it has to be the second thing, but not everyone has those religious experiences, and even the religious don’t always correlate these things to God. It just requires so many layers of weird assumption that I really don’t know what to think.
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that!” —Bill O’Reilly
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They’re just shuffling cards. They will make whatever mouth noises get to their foregone conclusion. This is how they perform loyalty to the ingroup.
They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 9 months ago
More like a lot of people maning memes about it
I’ve never heard something like that irl or online (outside of a joke)
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 10 months ago
abfarid@startrek.website 10 months ago
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not that we can’t explain it, it’s that you can’t understand it.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 10 months ago
lowleveldata@programming.dev 10 months ago
The sun just… set? I don’t understand what is to be explained.
DannyMac@lemm.ee [bot] 10 months ago
Well, she’s a flat earther, so how does the sun set work without God?
ladicius@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Idiots. You shouldn’t care to explain anything, they are beyond dumb.
neidu2@feddit.nl 10 months ago
They’re*
Etterra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also she used the wrong “there.”
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Get a ball, hold it between your eye and a light source. I know that some natural phenomena are hard to explain, but this one is really easy to conceptualize.
Xander_Meters@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Their
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tide comes in, tide goes out. Explain that, atheists!
letsgo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Same way I’d explain a sciency-type person who doesn’t know the difference between there, their and they’re.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
THEIRS IS NO GOD. THE ONLY TRUE GOD IS THOR
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Isn’t it more of a blue shift / red shift situation, rather than scattering?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, it’s definitely atmospheric scattering. Blue and red shifting occurs when interstellar objects accelerate towards or away from us near the speed of light
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Imagine the horror if the earth accelerated at such extreme speeds on a regular basis.
kaedon@beehaw.org 10 months ago
There is a very small of red shift. If you were standing on the equator watching a sunset, then your radial velocity relative to the sun is only ~461m/s. So the green light from the sun 550nm would be red shifted by +0.08nm. That little red shift wouldn’t be noticeable. However, as the sun sets there’s a lot more atmosphere in the way, which scatters blue light more than red light. (Why the sky is blue)
Zink@programming.dev 10 months ago
Are you sure those numbers are right? The proportions of 550nm/0.08nm and c/461m/s are very different.
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Dunno, I’m still waiting for HL3 so I haven’t played that expansion yet
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
My favourite is the one where they use bananas as proof of God. (Always boring monothiests, too…
niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Their is the ciense
Corno@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Sunset and twilight are my fave parts of the day. The colours are just so pretty…Thank you, rayleigh scattering!
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh? And is this “Rayleigh” here in the room with us right now??
StaySquared@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a really rudimentary question for a religious person to ask. But then again nothing really surprises me anymore.
shath@hexbear.net 10 months ago
idiot
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Thank you r/atheism
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When we’re talking about sun sets, I heard somewhere (a meme with jesus ?) which says the pink is pollution.
Iny info about the pink in the sunset?
Cheers
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kanda@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Their
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Image
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
How do youbexplain me looking this psycho if there is no SATAN
jaden@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Dead smile of someone who had too many pictures taken of them as a child. I like to think I preserved my authenticity by being a little monster during pictures as a child.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 10 months ago
Hanlon’s Razor and all that, but I just assume that’s to drive up interaction in the post.
Rant/ramble ahead, you can skip:
By misspelling something, or just doing/saying something that common sense should say is wrong (“life hack, I just discovered this thing that literally every 5 year old already knows about”) you will draw out all the people who are genuinely trying to help, people who just can’t help themselves but smugly correct someone, people who THINK they know the right way but aren’t sure, people who claim to have never seen the right way before, and all the bitch fights such comments produce.
The increased interactions make the post do better in algorithms, which means it goes out to more and more people, who continue the cycle.
My wife watches short form endless scrolling videos despite knowing how bad those are for your mental health, and some of the people she stops to watch are CONSTANTLY pulling the “common sense says otherwise” one. Like my dude you did NOT just figure out in your 20s that you can wait for the shower to warm up before you get in. Literal toddlers know better. It’s such a simple thing, I genuinely do not believe anyone in their 20s just gets in the shower while the water is still cold because they never figured out they can wait for the warm water. But hoooo boy did their video take off and have millions of views, and thousands of comments about how wild that is.
realitista@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Whenever these people write something, the spelling mistakes are all but inevitable. I’m really impressed if they manage to spell a whole sentence.
abfarid@startrek.website 10 months ago
They’re*
Kanda@reddthat.com 10 months ago
There, there
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Their isnoogod, your isnoogod, my isnoogod
It’s not racket skiense