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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] bsit@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What's mainly depressing is that so many people think that every religion is exactly like Christianity, but with a different object of worship and a slightly different flavor of supernatural belief. They don't know anything about philosophy, they haven't examined their own beliefs, they just parrot whatever pop science they've heard last and think that somehow gives answers to metaphysical questions.

Read some philosophy, people. Examine your own beliefs a bit. I've just recently seen a bunch of Lemmings who I'm sure consider themselves very rational and scientific freak out at the idea of not having free will, and by extension, there not being absolute good and evil. They can't even argue about it, they just immediately fall into ad hominem attacks and strawmanning. Bring in the fact that whatever virtue one thinks they have is just the result of genetic lottery, and suddenly the idea of some kind of an untarnished soul becomes awfully tempting. Dare to suggest that nobody is inherently evil and boy do people get mad because their favorite pasttime of judging others has been called into question. Yet these same people often consider themselves above religious folk because they actually think that their worldview is purely science based and not at all colored by what they just want to be true.

Oh, not to even mention questioning if matter is the fundamental aspect of reality (as opposed to consciousness). Many people with 0 understanding of philosophy will start arguing about this and then get mad because they can't prove that there's matter outside consciousness. They'll do the science equivalent of saying "God is real because the Bible says so, and the Bible is the word of God so it must be true". Matter is fundamental because my scientific framework that is built on the idea that matter is fundamental says so (it actually doesn't, because again, so embarrassingly many people don't even realize that science has never answered a single metaphysical question).

Unless you have spent several years with philosophy and actually scrutinized your own beliefs honestly, you are likely living in just as much fantasy as most religious people. In some cases, more so.

And because I've hit my quota for entertaining poor arguments for now: if you want to argue, unless you can provide scientific proof for the existence of free will, absolute good and evil or matter being fundamental, I may not reply.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 days ago

Id encourage you to continue to argue. Maybe its frustrating and fruitless but the constant rattling of chains is music to my ears.