average red state university

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  No, you prove that you’re right.

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  “On second thought let’s not go to the United States. ‘t’is a silly place.”

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yes we are the only country on earth with religious fundamentalists

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    • xav@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Well compared to most European countries you are sure clear winners

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    • Jikiya@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The Vatican is #1, but we’re the only other “Western Democracy” that is having a major resurgence of fundies in power. There’s always been a problem, but never have they had so much sway. And we’re not better off for it.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like all the girls there (or at least the ones whoever printed the signs is interested in) are dating socialist guys?

  Wouldn’t need to print the signs otherwise… :P

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never, ever try and engage these people on their terms, for example, by trying to “challenge” them with counter arguments. They already have a whole script of replies ready for anything like that, designed to drag you down to his level of bad-faith bickering.

  Instead, simply call out to their face what they actually are. These are bad-faith actors there for the sole purpose of undermining social cohesion by creating a false dichotomy between science and religion. They are not the only reason we are so divided but they are a large one. Tell them that. Don’t let them respond. Don’t give them questions to answer. Just keep pressing, stating what they are, to them, and to everyone who’s stopping to listen. Humiliate them by presenting them to the public as the cancer to society that they are.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is pretty much prime territory for the same methods Kirk used for “debate”.

    Gish gallop, butwhatabout, moving gailposts, exhausting the opponent with bs, etc.

    They’re all the same, they’re not there for any honest conversation. There is absolutely no way to “win” with them because no matter what objective and truthful information you offer it will be rejected or you’ll be asked to “prove” something that cannot be done in any manner acceptable to the asker.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    creating a false dichotomy between science and religion

    Was with you until this part. There’s nothing false about that dichotomy.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Plenty of religious scientists. The more you lesrn, the greater you are aware of how much is uncertain. You can still believe in a God whilst respecting the scientific method of reasoning

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  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In this particular case, he has no audience except a banana and a time traveler, so you could also just ignore him. Nothing worse for him than a day of nothing happening.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can tell they’re a time traveller because of the Mark V time machine in front of them.

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    • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I can think of lots worse.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    About 25yrs ago we had a flurry of these types invade. So we pulled some strings, got permission, and started having local bands play the main spot where they wanted to preach during the busy part of the day. Drown them out. The best was our local death metal band where the guitarist dressed up like a priest in a gimp mask and the singer wore a prison jumpsuit and nylons over his face. They condemned it but left. Also, mid-day death metal in the center of campus is something to behold.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ya. That doesn’t work either. What does work is doing the exact same thing they do. Get a sign write on it “Christianity is bullshit. Prove me wrong” and stand there.

    Don’t look at him, don’t engage. When he does finally say something tell him that he’s oppressing your beliefs and he deserves to burn in everlasting hellfire…

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  • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Next time I bring you with me.

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  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re right. They can’t have a response when you say big fancy words to them that mean actual things. They’ll be stumped.

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• Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someones trying to hookup with your socialist boyfriend

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    our boyfriend

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• IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sorry… Is he saying that the Bible directly, as the first sentence of the first book, like, the very first thing the Bible says, is: “Evolution is a lie,” or, “prove me wrong”?

  I shouldn’t think too hard about it, but I am.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re arguing with a straw pigeon. There’s no logic to convince that person. You could put them in a time machine and walk them through the evolution of life and they still wouldn’t change their mind.

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    • voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They would just blame their eyes for lying to them.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not a believer, but I recently learned that a correct reading of the original Hebrew doesn't say he created everything. He created the waters and the earth from the void that was already there.

    Back to the sign. Dude is making the claim; he has to support it. Evolution is the most proven theory we have, yet it has been falsified over and over. He'd first have to understand the basics of evolutionary theory, which I guarantee he doesn't know; he wouldn't be there if he did.

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    • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Evolution is the most proven theory we have, yet it has been falsified over and over.

      Is this a typo? A theory need only be proven wrong once to nullify it as a theory and so far as I’m aware that hasn’t happened.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, christianity goes back to some water god on the local hill with his wife.

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    • TaterTot@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Evolution is the most proven theory we have, it has been tested over and over.

      I’ll see you Theory of Evolution and raise you the Theory of Gravity.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is the templar, banana and lighting McQueen toy part of his argument or are those people goofing on him?

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having attended several red state universities, I chose to take it as a statement that alongside the ubiquitous plaza preachers, who are never affiliated with the school and are generally no one’s favorite campus characters, there’s also plenty of standard college silliness and shenanigans. Apart from the big blue cities, the college towns of the south are generally the most educated and forward thinking enclaves of the red states, hence the huge pressure campaigns from their governors to being the schools themselves to heel.

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  • EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Proof that we still monkey

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    • EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tho not sure if proving him wrong or right

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    • Una@europe.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We are just monkeys with main character syndrome.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s literally ridiculously easy to prove him wrong, but you know he won’t accept your numerous indisputable proofs, not just because he’s religious, but because he’s a cunt.

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ni!

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What sad times these are.

    When ruffians can go around saying Ni allowed to old women.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Could you bring us a shrubbery? A nice one, not too expensive

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You first. Prove religion is right.

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  • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here are the arguments theyll be sure are winners:

    1

    says in old book. You not have old book.

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    DIE UNBELIEVER!

    3

    hello, morality officer? Yes, i have an unbeliever here.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      says in old book. You not have old book.

      The first encyclopedia is about as old as the Bible.

      So it’ll always end in answer 2 and 3.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tell him there’s a nobel prize for him if he can prove his view.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why’s he on a footstool lol

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  • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Short ☺️

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  • Firoaren@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Soapbox

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  there were signs all around my uni that said “dump your socialist boyfriend” for like NO reason 😭😭

  Are you on my campus or is this a common thing?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably TPUSA

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