Croquemitaine

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nagolbud #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Is Nagolbud's head really a cage for a brain?

Also, an obloid spheroid rocky planet, rotating on its own axis and orbitting the Sun, is slightly more meaningful than "a spinning ball", that in this post was really a straw man.

how did the entire universe start from nothing and expand into something only to perfectly rotate and spin in the perfect cycle for billions of years

That too contains a straw man. Science doesn't claim that it's perfect, you do. It didn't need to be perfect for life to occur and evolve, just to be under acceptable conditions for long enough, in a universe so large that it sometimes happens. About the big bang, there always will remain some mystery, it's origin myths that assert absolute statements. What science can do is try to explain and discover the history. So far, it's the best model we have, that may always have holes, but it already has very solid ground. For instance, physics and particle accelerators discovered how baryogenesis happened. Astrophysics understands how stars produce more elements, how mass and gravity allow the aggregation of stars, planets, galaxies, black holes, how satellites objects form systems around more massive objects, like our Solar system, etc. It seems like you should also read about acceleration, deceleration and kinetic, potential energy.

Lisa Renee #crackpot #magick #ufo #wingnut #conspiracy

the 911 Timelines, the implementation of the false reality timelines [...] the 911 Timeline window is being utilized for hijacking the collective consciousness

So, this.

descending pockets

Alien paratroopers?

When this level of malintent is revealed

What about the intent behind this alienation propaganda?

Dave Blount #racist #pratt

"I reassert that my reason to support Trump is the same harmful lies, motivated fear mongering and hate speech that have produced him."

Good reasons not to support him, like some Republicans admit, notably Michael Luttig, the former Ronald Reagan staffers, etc. They recognize the importance of democracy, the constitution and of peace rather than destruction and chaos, beyond partisan politics.

@OratorBlog Information Warrior #racist #wingnut #conspiracy #quack

At the same time they have Infiltrated the America First Community and placed Operatives within the Republican Party.

That's MAGA extremists, meaning that this post is disinformation in attempt to distract from the actual conspiracy, then scapegoat the victims of the conspiracy.

COVID VAX GENOCIDE

And incompetence, except to promote lies that harm society.

This shocking Podcast Exposes the Zionists Evil Plans on what they planned to do to Whistleblowers and Dissenters

Nazi.

Lucis #fundie

Sugarhitman #fundie

hegotgame3 #racist

Lucis #fundie

Projection fallacy, because it's true about ideology and the claims of religion, but not about the discovery of the natural world, what science does. Science must be practical and useful, sure, but it also rests on strong tenets, allowing the development of reliable, working, technology, including to further develop its own "senses" for further advancements. False equivalence fallacy. Also, some relativistic effects have been demonstrated, confirming that the general theory is relevant and useful, thus, true enough to be working. Science does not dictate how reality works, it attempts to discover and explain that.

But what is the motivation for this deceptive science denial statement? Creationism?

IAmJoseph #fundie

Camille #fundie

Yes, no Christian gets to dictate for all Christians what they should think. Especially those who are alienated from reality, who reject all the strong evidence of deep time and evolution. Who were misled and are misleading others, the blind leading the blind. Who embrace an ideology designed for segregation and exploitation, where mainstream education and reality are demonized for radicalization. A cultish reactionary ideology that is relatively young and does not represent mainstream Christianity. The reason for the friction and cognitive dissonance resulting in this post. Who is the father of deception?

Free Indeed #fundie

Who's your earthly master, the cult leader who exploits you, claiming to be speaking for the alleged divine? Who enslaved you in this very life? What if there is no afterlife and you've wasted this life, your only life, sacrificing it for vanity?

If your real concern is the message of love of Jesus, it doesn't have to be about slavery and you don't need to be in a cult. You could try to do some good in the world, today, like charity.

ihsan Karacaby #fundie

Anatomically modern humans are at least 300-400k years old, a 35k flute does not refute that. Flutes are also simple and ancient, but it's true that they're made by humans with the necessary cognitive ability to design, build and play them. We are great apes, it also changes nothing to that. Assuming that Allah is the same as YHWH, that's not particularly old, younger than the claimed flute, and there were earlier human deities. It's not because a flute was made by humans and that gods were created by humans that those imaginary gods really created humans, especially from scratch, considering the evidence of evolution and transitional fossils that have been discovered. If you deny that your god was made by humans, who made it? Why does it reason like a fundamentalist human?

Self-Mutation #fundie

Apparent troll puts up a straw man of the Omphalos time denial doctrine (illusion of deep time fantasy), but at least admits that it's implausible. They may not be seeing the irony that their Young-Earth Creationist doctrine also denies time for which there is plenty of evidence. Or it's the joke.

rhutchin #fundie

Malaria does not go away by imagining things. It can be treated with actual medicine. It's the same fact of life, for Christians and non-Christians. Medicine is not "non-Christian" and usually doesn't refuse to treat on the basis of religion, either. Then you don't know who prays or not, it's none of your business. Divisive bigot.

IamJoseph #fundie

IBelieveInHymn #fundie

atheists will cut your throat for believing in Jesus

Today, that sounds like MAGA. A "Christian nationalist", anti-Jesus, war accelerationist, fascist white supremacist movement, that if allowed, might kill many other Christians, as well as Muslims, Jews, Democrats... Atheists don't care and may actually agree with the message of Jesus. But they care when you harm, with your hate and violence. If you were a good Christian, you wouldn't lie like that, war accelerationist troll.

IBelieveInHymn #fundie

How many have religious people killed? I'll assume that you are religious, since you are demonizing atheists. If reality offends you, the same is true for atheists than for religious people, they're not all murderous psychopaths, fortunately. Also, Obama is Christian and not all atheists are communists, hateful crackpot. Paranoid, racist, political disinformation conspiracy theories.

adren@line #fundie

Atheists don't tell you to not read your scriptures. Most have read them more closly than you did. Atheists don't confuse reality with fiction when reading scripture, why would they confuse it when watching sci-fi? Because it's your straw man of atheism, your fallacious argument using psychological projection. I don't care what you declare, especially in the light of the evidence that it's nonsense.

biblethumping #fundie

Punishing other people because of someone else in the past is evidence that your concept of god lacks ethics and is not worth of respect. When young, this was always a problem that made me question mythology, even if I was a believer. It was obviously unjust if an original couple was tricked for all of humanity to suffer when they fell in the trap.

You also have to explain why suffering happens to the innocent. And why, if the divine exists, it allows your kind of evil bigotry. Intersex people did not chose it and are not responsible for their situation, just like you did not chose to be ignorant. But you may have chosen to be a stupid and arrogant bigot.

This reminds me that when honestly studying the phenomena of prayer, it tends to be elitist and pretentious. Someone may visit a dying person at the hospital and pray for them, without effect. Meanwhile, another person in the same room feels neglected. They may also perceive it as a hypocritical show. A third person in the room, like a relative of the other patient, may rightfully think: why would that other person be more worthy? Meanwhile, in another country, someone is being persecuted and is praying. They suffer and die. Where is your god? Why is your cult better than another? Why would the all powerful being that does not appear to listen, especially listen to you?

For you, that false excuse is to promote hatred against other people for inadvertently being different. Asshole. Intersex doesn't even mean gay. You're also pushing frivolous libel against the LGBTQ+ who are not responsible for their condition.

catholicguy #fundie

Exactly, Darwin had no access to DNA, that wasn't discovered yet, it has spawned a new evolutionary synthesis. It still continued to confirm most of the old scientific theory, but offered light to correct and improve models and understand the way mutations happen, give clues about abiogenesis, etc. Evolution is discovery, not human opinion. Science also keeps developing new "senses" to look at the world. Claiming that the fantastical writings of an ancient author and the knowledge of science are the same is a false equivalence fallacy, presenting a straw man of science. For the same reason, the scientific consensus is superior to the opinions of individual scientists.

When science will be able to study the supernatural, it will not be the supernatural. Science studies the "supernatural" all the time, for the people in the past who considered it mysterious. We now know, for instance, that lightning is not an angry Thor. That sacrificing virgins to volcanoes will not prevent them, because they have a natural geological origin. That bush fires are not angels. That brains are unreliable and self-deceiving, that hallucinations are not a window to "a higher reality". That the fantasies of the mind are only that, which is contrasted with knowledge development using the scientific method. Et cetera.

And interestingly, you're confusing science with atheism. The problem is that your pseudoscientific arguments are untenable, not that scientists are atheists. If you provide evidence for your method, they will notice and replicate your results. Assuming that you post them in the relevant peer reviewed journals.

biblethumping #fundie

Self-Mutation #fundie

Atheists seem to pride themselves on rational thinking and logic. How does logic not dictate to the atheist that the world is God's to DO AS HE SEES FIT?

By putting up straw men of them then burning them. The straw men never represented them, it misrepresents them, what they say and think. Simple, isn't it. Of course, it also means that your argument was baseless, untenable. Its false premises were only straw men and other fallacies.

Self-Mutation #fundie

It would only be equivalent if the prize was a scam, that you would never receive it. And if you admit that serving your deity is harmful to other people, even leads to their physical harm, for frivolous reasons, fictious prizes. Considering that crimes against humanity were done in the name of deities, there may be some truth to it. Except that there's not "more where it came from", it's "nothing more where nothing came from".

Free Indeed #fundie

TheSage #fundie

So you want a "science" that is claimed to be science, but is really dictated religious dogma. Because the actual scientific method can only work with what's practical. Still, it doesn't mean that science is atheistic, that's a straw man. Humans doing science are often religious, but it's part of science not to let personal conflicts of interest and common human fallacies taint the work, or it would not progress. It's part of the scientific method to deal with those human weaknesses, so its body of knowledge and the scientific consensus are also superior to human opinions and religions, in terms of reality discovery and assessment. What you don't like is that awakening to reality might put some of your fantasies into question. That's fine, it's part of the process of learning. It's also humbling, we know that we're not the center of the universe. Scientists often say false things or share their personal opinions. When we're looking for the scientific consensus, we don't rely on a single scientist. If they have interesting material to improve science, they can post it in relevant peer reviewed journals with their method and receive criticism while allowing others to try to replicate and evaluate. The obstruction and censorship of knowledge for religious dogma in science would be considered the corruption of science.

Self-Mutation #fundie

Religious people have killed eachother throughout history. There is no need to believe in sky fairies to develop and have ethics. If the only thing preventing you to harm and murder people is the belief in a supernatural being spying on you that might punish you, there's likely a problem with you, like psychopathy. Most people have some level of empathy, even other animals do, it has benefited the survival of groups during their evolution. The fact that there's no evidence of divine punishment is another issue with the argument.

Self-Mutation #fundie

Another very strong proof that God is real is the fact that writing doesn't go back more than 6,000 years

Nonsense. If writings about imaginary beings exist, it only means that humans wrote their stories when they could write. There were cultures, oral traditions and idols before that.

If we really existed as a species for thousands and thousands of years, writing should go back 50,000 years at least, possibly even 100,000 years.

Writing and deities are human inventions, so no. Even if humans like us existed 300k years ago, it doesn't mean that everything humans invented appeared 300k years ago. There's much science that has only been developped in the last few hundred years, for instance. You're denying that humans can be very ignorant and need culture transmission to vehiculate knowledge. But you're evidence that some people can be left behind.

Self-Mutation #fundie

So to you knowledge is a great evil conspiracy that should be dismissed in favor of a ridiculous story. I doubt that it's very productive. When I see a claim like "I asked him to show me right now and he couldn't", it's just evidence of arrogance and denial. The world is a little more complex than simplist fantasies and you have to put your own effort into education. The result of not doing so is this kind of ignorant nonsense.

If you accept that all scripture is human, what makes ancient people's mythology so special? Also, science textbooks are generally not only the opinions of the author, they're a summary of established knowledge disseminated in a way so that it can be learned gradually.

A "self-mut[il]ating Christian" posting self-defeating arguments, it looks a lot like trolling, too...

Self-Mutation #fundie

"There is no evidence for the existence of divine beings, therefore God. [...] I hope I just boggled all of your minds with a brand new argument never before heard over the past thousands of years."

Well, it's just an affirmation that you accept blind faith and are still trying to convince yourself that the imaginary being is real. After-all, like you've admitted, that's what faith has been about since humans could imagine beings. A "proof by lack of evidence" logical fallacy will not convince those who don't believe and that's fine, they're not really expecting that you'll suddenly find convincing evidence that'll transform their lives.

Is it healthy for you? Are you happy, or does it allow an exploitative cult to take advantage of you? Is a creator that's hiding its existence from you deceptive, or simply unlikely to exist? Is it worthy caring about and making sacrifices for? How about the fact that ethics have no divine origin, since as you admit, the deity could not influence or intervene in the world anyway? And humans are capable of knowledge, morality and ethics higher than those of ancient humans today. To a point where it's easy to recognize that if the mythology of the Torah was true, humans would have been deceived again and again by an anthropomorphic jealous asshole in the sky playing chess with them... And we know that it's one among many deities humans invented.

Jackie Yates #fundie

You're mistaken, those authors are recognized to have been Christian apologists. It doesn't mean that they embraced the type of obscurantism that would prevent them from expressing their creativity. They were also people of their time and place.

Trusting the Bible? Someone could be misled with it when ignorant about its actual history, origins and purposes. It's also why those who need to impose certain dogma using it are generally opposed to its study without their guidance, an untainted mind without a conflict of interest may arrive at other conclusions. Because there is no univeral understanding and no divine intervention to correct those who are wrong, history is full of sectarianism. There's a more universal academic theology, there also are historians, who greatly helped to put those texts into their perspective and context.

There is no evidence that the authors had special access to knowledge about the past, present or the future. In fact, there is much evidence that they were very ignorant about the world. It's unsurprising, considering the leap of knowledge achieved in the last hundred years alone, using the scientific method.

Baptised1 #fundie

Even if it shows a flawed understanding of biology, this appears to admit that evolution exists. I suppose that this is the denial of speciation, something often done with arguments splitting evolution into microevolution and macroevolution, to deny that the latter occurs. The latter is only the expression of the same over large time scales. Something useful to observe is how adaptive radiations around continents produced close sexually compatible variants and when going far enough, speciation. We also see this when studying biogeography. Punctuated equilibrium suggests that indeed, periods of faster evolution can happen, when it may partly seem to have stalled in other cases. The large brain of humans effectively makes the species adapt so successfully that natural selection is less of a pressure. It's also not intuitive to observe evolution, because it happens slowly and our brains have evolved to cognitively respond to immediate events. But we have a lot of reliable accumulated evidence, as well as lab tests demonstrating that it happens. It's not invented dogma, it's a discovery made when honestly studying the natural world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent is a useful starting point.

MariaDesu #sexist

You're not obliged to watch what you don't like. You can also have opinions about it. A mistake would be banning all of it to prevent access to those who enjoy it responsibly. Some also create the type of porn they like for themselves. And sex play exists, it doesn't have to only be about reproduction. Yes, exploitation exists, including in other forms, it's not only in porn. Regulating commerce in general should help. If that industry was forced to only be underground, there would be more exploitation and organized crime, rather than promoting a healthy business. Because demand will remain, as it existed throughout history.

ToxicPersonality #psycho

"I am your utmost hidden desire, in the secret, that will sneakily materialize and you shall be my slaves, foreveerrrrrr! Foreeeeveeeeerrrrrrrrr! FOOOOREEEEEEVAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! AAAAARHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHHHHH *cough*cough*cough*cough* ARHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!11111111 *black thick blood showering face from the ceiling*"

And, WTF, even for a boogeyman...

Mychal Massie #wingnut #conspiracy #fundie

Because ignorance and lies are not evil, or at least, wrong, unethical, harmful? You're demonizing knowledge and medicine here and are misleading people into increasing their chances of serious illness or death. You're also twisting an effort to provide universal medicine into some nefarious conspiracy. This also means that what you are promoting instead is no access to proper medicine for most people. This exposes you as a corruption pawn.

Mainländer #sexist

Your liberties stop where it infringes that of others. Enslaving half of the population to satisfy a few unfits is not a realistic or ethical solution. Instead, learning how to socialize and to date, seems more realistic, to solve your own personal issues. But you must begin by recognizing that there is a problem and that it's not just society, the world or females.

Molly Bolt #wingnut #sexist #pratt

I see several suggestions about starving people for political reasons lately. That is, the advocacy for crimes against humanity. Here's another: https://fstdt.com/56Q3BPWS29RJJ

During the Russian civil war, the Red and White terror resulted, among other atrocities, in famine, refusing to sell food to those they considered to be vermin, dehumanized as such. Cannibalism also happened. Any suggestion to try to starve other people is the advocacy for pure evil. Even during outright war, one of the reasons Israel officials have been issued arrest warrants by the ICC.

For this reason, I suggest #psycho

Lance Wallnau #fundie #magick

Wallnau is a notorious fascist conspirator, using religious rhetoric and manipulation.

Did you watch the show? If so, did you see how Trump couldn't even look at Harris when she was speaking? Did you see his villain faces? Did you hear his evil lies? His inability to answer questions, resulting in rambling, whataboutism, disinformation and false accusations instead? That he made clear that he has no remorse whatsoever for the insurrection and his crimes? That at several times he was still stuck on Biden, needing to be reminded that he's not facing Biden?

If we want to play with superstitious nonsense, if that's witchcraft, where's the supposed divine protection to prevent his apparent devil possession? Did you try Ranger Joe's remote exorcism services on the internet? https://fstdt.com/NB34 :D

James Rink #wingnut #transphobia #racist #crackpot #conspiracy

I suppose that nothing is surprising with those fanatics.

It reminded me of:
https://www.newsweek.com/woman-who-looks-trump-goes-viral-spain-its-because-my-hair-color-898790

Edit/Adding:
To QAnon fanatics, note that this is only parody (paaaa, ruuuuh, deeeee).
"Kamala Harris is really Michael Jackson. The Deep State conspired to plan his fake death. But Michael Jackson also had a private life behind the artist! The Jehovah's Witness nonsense was only a front, his spy coverup. He's really Bond, James Bond, agent 007. His impedigo and strange nose are a witness of the seminal technology to turn a white man black. And of course, Bond is British, so not born in the US! (Briiiih, tiiiiiiih, shhhhhhhh!). Some claim that Bond, James Bond, is really a reincarnation of St-Germain."

J.D. Vance #racist #wingnut #crackpot

Adding my mini-essay for archives:

Some apologists claim that it may be possible, that Haitians are also Voodoo practitioners, etc. Assuming that one event did happen, when an animal is sacrificed for a fertility rite it's poultry, we also eat that. Assuming that a desperately hungry person would have eaten a cat, it suggests mismanagement resulting in famine, something that they cannot be blamed for. In times of famine, white people have even eaten people, eating a cat seems like nothing in comparison.

It is obvious that there is a motive behind those promoting the claims. It is like jumping from the case of a particular multiethnic relationship to "Love Jihad" disinformation. Or like the promotion of mass ritual murder moral panic conspiracy theories, when rare cases involving psychopaths and insane people exist.

Looking at the sources promoting it also tells a lot. Trump, Musk, Vance, Kirk... All notorious for fabricating and promoting outlandish falsehoods constantly. And it's not the first time that Trump is influenced by online trolling, even outlandish nonsense from trolling boards and Russian disinformation. Who else has promoted those claims for panic? Neo-nazis, online.

Why would Trump, at a major presidential debate national show, suddenly begin to madly ramble about Haitians eating pets? It was part of his fear mongering racist propaganda, promoting panic, claiming that there's an invasion attacking the country, destroying it and eating your pets, and that Harris is supposedly part of the plot. There is a malicious motive and a scapegoat.

So a short description becomes: racist moral panic disinformation conspiracy theory.

Edit/Adding:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrants

Amos #fundie

Evolution is the theory of dummies who actually think that nature has a mind to make selections. To be sure, "natural selection" implies the existence of intelligenge does it not?

A projection of your own ideology. In an old and complex enough universe life can sometimes arise naturally without apparent intelligent intervention (abiogenesis). Once that point, because it is neither designed nor perfect but constantly mutates, it diversifies and adapts where it can replicate and subsist. Populations that subsist are naturally selected, because the others die off. The principles work and in engineering humans can also design processes that take advantage of the same rules, but artificially (genetic algorithms). In the latter, there's intent and design, of course. For that reason, it doesn't start from scratch, the initial state, state transitions and fitness evaluation are all designed for a particular application. That's not what we observe with life and although some people entertain ideas of directed evolution, or the Great Chain of Being, no evidence has been found to support those.

Donald trump #crackpot #dunning-kruger #god-complex #pratt #wingnut

Typical Trump. Lack of self-awareness, narcissist, Machiavellian, alternate reality.

“My father loved me, hugged me often, and never once called me a hideous moron. And my mother never lamented that her over-active gag reflex saddled her with my sallow, shapeless ass.”

Hahaha, if only said gag reflex activated at every lie. Well, there might still be cultists: "Divine confirmation, he materialized a lingam!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riCn4M0SnUI