Always has been

What’s GP?

A little puzzle I like to give Right Wingers who think “America ended slavery, and Conservatives helped! Where’s our thank you?”

If I were to hijack an airplane and send it into the Statue of Liberty, but at the very last minute I swerve, successfully avoid it, and return to my seat, returning control to the pilots in the process.

Do I get a medal for saving the plane, or do I get arrested for hijacking it?

Riddle me this Batman: If Confederate statues honor “Democrats”, why did Republicans get mad at their removal?

I’m an American and I rarely if ever hear this

I don’t get it

The answer is that Trump’s speech works for the new reason why empty new age platitudes work. Not because they say something interesting, but because they sound like they might.

People aren’t hearing Trump speak because he’s not saying anything, they’re hearing what they want to hear in the word salad.

I literally tried to follow transcripts of Trump talking back in 2016, and I couldn’t. They just came off as word salads, unfortunately this is why his base loves him.

It’s kinda like those New Age speakers who give a bunch of empty platitudes that could reasonably mean any god damn, if you bite hard enough you’ll look for what you want to hear without even realizing it.

I just dont’ understand how Trump rallies can be so popular with his base considering he speaks like he had a fucking stroke.

Bankruptcy for a company isn’t a thing anymore, it’s exclusively for people who get cancer now

[Citation Needed]

And if Roger Penrose is right, there never will be

Most of the time when I talk to a chat bot it’s because I need to contact support for an issue only support can help me with, but unfortunately the company in question is Id.me and they apparently don’t have support of any kind and all these tickets I’ve been writing have been going into a paper shredder

irl I’m a woman and I only have male friends… Okay I have ONE Female friend and I rarely see her anymore. I’m not avoiding her or anything, our paths just drifted apart.

Kamela lost because she’s a woman

He didn’t do that. He said “show me. Ok, now show me under controlled conditions”.

Except no he didn’t. The challenge was heavily criticized for among other things, having overly strict standards (moreso than most studies reasonably have), Randi himself having final say (no impartial judge), faking his own research, and him downright refusing any participants that weren’t using the same three stage tricks he debunked again and again.

I am not saying Psi is real or anything of the sort. I am saying that those who promote themselves as skeptics must be willing to be scientific or they’re just kooks working “for the other team”

To pretend Randi was scientific about his approach in the slightest is an insult to the the scientific method itself.

While I do not endorse the views and research of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, he was asked about why he didn’t take on the challenge and what he had to say was deeply informative.

https://youtu.be/LLjUTvaKgdQ?

Now I’m not saying Sheldrake is anything amazing. I’m asking… why do we have a quack like Sheldrake sticking to the scientific method better than Randi? Why is Sheldrake the guy claiming dogs are psychic coming off as the guy talking sense?

How much ammo does that give woo peddlers?

It’s not enough to yell “FAKE!” As loud as you can and talk like you’re writing a rational wiki article. You need to actually stand for science and the scientific method otherwise you send horrible messages about what is and isn’t evidence and give New Age whackjobs the floor to say “Well if Randi has to fake studies, something Sheldrake caught him doing, to debunk psychic powers, why are we still questioning psychic powers?”

Imagine that energy leaves Earth and you become something higher than man

Saying “Oh that’s just near death. Nevermind that we are seeing active conciousness where none should exist.”

Isn’t that just moving the goal post at the end of the day?

I believe it is something simple we do not yet have the capacity to measure and that which can not be recreated as an AI.

Why do I believe it exists? Because I experience it constantly.

I am going to tell you something based on a true story about a spring in Rome believed to cure disease. For centuries even after the fall of the Empire fell people flocked to it believing the Gods blessed it with healing properties.

The scientific minded said bad to the whole thing and assumed it nothing but a legend that fools took stock in. However people continued to come and be healed, no one could explain it.

Until the invention of the Geiger Counter and the discovery of radiation.

The legend had been true all along. The spring had been mildly radioactive! It was killing off what was killing the patrons!

No one had anyway of knowing until suddenly they did.

I believe conciousness to be a similar story that we haven’t seen the end of. Perhaps free will is one as well.

I dunno we still see things like Terminal Lucidity and NDEs all the time.