Forever Sophist

If you support democracy, then you should oppose tyranny. If you oppose tyranny, then you should be an anti-theist.

Religion is not a divine experience. It is a human one.

Let me know if you have any new arguments for the existence of god, or evidence, please. I am waiting.

A theist talks down to me for lacking "objective morality", jumping to the point I could do anything horrible because there is no god.

Why then do my morals stand under scrutiny more than your religious leaders, youth pastors, priests, bishops, and others in positions of power?

When you can imagine it is possible your children may grow up to be any non-archetypally accepted way of being (a minority, gay, queer, transgender, asexual, socially different... left handed,), you have no excuse to lack empathy. That may start with quitting your religion.

"Elder" being a term not of seniority but one of elite status is an indication of the issue with tradition and religion in positions of power. Having an old idea does not make it true.

We must expel religion from any public relevance. Make Jesus your hobby, not our legislation.

Trump is espousing a "national medal of motherhood" for those who have 6 children, and the government continues to push anti-abortion legislation through their Christian nationalist machine.

We need to speak out.

Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism — LessWrong One occasionally sees such remarks as, "What good does it do to go around being angry about the nonexistence of God?" (on the one hand) or "Babies ar…

Interesting article by Eliezer Yudkowsky on "Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism"

www.lesswrong.com/po...

The existence of afterlife-anchored-belief systems being the popular model for 3/4 of the world population's religion is not happenstance, nor is it a reflection of truth. It is a monopolistic survival tactic, akin to conglomerate organizations buying up the competition.

There is a growing trend of far-right pastors/Christian nationalists saying we should repeal the 19th amendment in the U.S., removing the rights of women to vote.

And people told me I was hyperbolic by saying the right wants to end democracy...

The phrase "religious freedom" is being morphed into a dog whistle for "Christian extremism"

I think you can use AI to come up with ideas, to clean up data, to maybe even help brainstorm, but I am quitting using AI to straight-up write for me, generate content for me, or create images for me.

A mind that outsources intelligence will atrophy into obsolescence.

Poll from Forever Sophist I am going to do my best to avoid using AI as much as possible for the content creation of this channel. It ultimately serves to fry your brain and make you ...

Answer this poll! Genuinely curious what you all think.

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Even if you belong to some sort of group or establishment, you should feel free to levy criticism.

Citizen of your country? Criticize the government.
Member of a club of sorts? Criticize the activities.
Employee in a workplace? Criticize your boss, the structure.

Religion?
NO!!

Religious people who say "atheists just say the same arguments over and over" are a mirror. Atheists will say "you have no evidence" until you prevent evidence.

That's not the same argument over and over again, rather, just waiting for you to actually make one.

It is wonderful to be able to ponder the extent of our universe and the unknown. Only does religion punish you for wondering too much.

Attacks against the claims of religion are not to personally vindicate your lifestyle but to protect the lifestyles of those historically trampled upon in the name of religion.

Continuing on the beauty of meaninglessness, there is an uncovered joy in having things as the way they are.

Our lives too, have no special post-life scenes or what have you. Let's just enjoy them for what they are.

Sunrises and sunsets maybe are beautiful because of what they are. Period. No strings attached.

Time to meander off into space and do nothing is important and necessary to being human

Christian Nationalism and Far right extremism go together like peanut butter and jelly.

We need to expel religion from politics, everywhere.

There is a community of people who used to be atheists but are now theists.

How often do you need to flipflop? Well, here is my Inception-level reaction dive.

youtu.be/hU0C7stJVlM

Within 24 hours I found these three pieces of news-- trying to contact indigenous tribes with jesus radio, committing $3.6M in fraud, and of course pedofilia stings, all courtesy of Christian leadership.

youtu.be/HapD5bGilmc

So, in summary, trans/queer people said "hey can we like be treated equally?" and the response from the right was to end democracy.

Enlightenment is understanding we need not attach meaning to anything. It is the muse of meaningless.

Whatever phenomena, incident, state of affairs, weather pattern, tragedy, or happenstance occurs before you may in fact have no meaning or deep significance whatsoever.

Yes I live in Japan 50% of the reason is food

Be wary of those who conceal information that others are open to share.

Epstein files, anyone?

Sharing this insightful comment on Threads I got in regards to the question of what discoveries theology makes every year.

Trump saw less than 100K jobs cretaed than expected and fired the commissioner this year, saying she had been forging things up until now.

Um, maybe I am simple-minded here, but could the -100K jobs not be in part explained by Trump's tariffs and deportations?

The scariest thing about God isn't that he might not exist.
It's that billions of people are willing to kill, shame, and suffer for an invisible being they've never seen—just because someone told them to.