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Offline Skybison

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #210 on: December 01, 2015, 04:35:08 pm »
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #211 on: December 14, 2015, 12:18:25 pm »
Quote from: tumblr user florianesque, paraphrased
speaking scientifically the rule correlation =/= causation usually applies to a) unrelated phenomena (i.e., storms and gay marriage) or b) something that has only happened one time and may have been caused by uncontrolled variables (i.e. that study that claimed vaccines caused autism which was a literal shitshow and could win an award for being the absolute least scientific experiment in existence). these are related phenomena, and having seen literally every person to make an original post about <thing> sucking ass get swarmed by angry anons with no uncontrolled variables to speak of i’d guess you don’t have much experience with statistics or science :/

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #212 on: December 14, 2015, 08:07:07 pm »
Quote from: tumblr user florianesque, paraphrased
speaking scientifically the rule correlation =/= causation usually applies to a) unrelated phenomena (i.e., storms and gay marriage) or b) something that has only happened one time and may have been caused by uncontrolled variables (i.e. that study that claimed vaccines caused autism which was a literal shitshow and could win an award for being the absolute least scientific experiment in existence). these are related phenomena, and having seen literally every person to make an original post about <thing> sucking ass get swarmed by angry anons with no uncontrolled variables to speak of i’d guess you don’t have much experience with statistics or science :/

I know the point the person is getting at and I agree, but this does not really make a lot of sense outside context.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #213 on: December 14, 2015, 08:08:40 pm »
Mentioning the specific context of it would probably lead this thread into another shit-flinging thread, which I don't want, so I thought I'd try to get the general sentiment of "correlation=/= causation isn't always right or accurate" expressed this way.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #214 on: December 15, 2015, 12:49:33 pm »
Yeah, it's a reasonable precaution.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #215 on: December 16, 2015, 04:37:35 pm »
This is a rather good rebuttal for the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" theory:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA</a>

...Unfortunately as you can see from the comments, conspiracy theorists won't let inconvenient facts get in the way of their theories. They either don't understand this simple demonstration or simply go straight to another theory and disregard the fact that their main argument was shot down.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #216 on: December 16, 2015, 06:43:17 pm »
Now there's a man we can get behind.

Anyone who has their own anvil is naturally of stout moral character.


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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #217 on: January 07, 2016, 06:27:02 am »
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The thing is that “so easily offended” tends to be shorthand for “They’ve stopped quietly accepting the offensive stuff I was saying before.”

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #218 on: January 12, 2016, 09:24:39 am »
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #219 on: January 12, 2016, 02:57:39 pm »
Either way, God is a total prick.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #220 on: January 12, 2016, 03:18:05 pm »
Either way, God is a total prick.

Nah, a total prick would have let Isaac die.

Incidentally, I heard an interesting interpretation that Abraham was testing God at the same time, to see if He was worthy of worship.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #221 on: January 12, 2016, 03:35:06 pm »
Nah, a total prick would have let Isaac die.
A not total prick wouldn't have done any of that in the first place.
Incidentally, I heard an interesting interpretation that Abraham was testing God at the same time, to see if He was worthy of worship.
He should've been able to make up his mind as soon as God asked him to kill his own son.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #222 on: January 12, 2016, 03:44:44 pm »
Either way, God is a total prick.

Nah, a total prick would have let Isaac die.

Incidentally, I heard an interesting interpretation that Abraham was testing God at the same time, to see if He was worthy of worship.

Yet more evidence that apologists can "interpret" anything they want from a fundamentally evil text.
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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #223 on: January 12, 2016, 04:03:30 pm »
Either way, God is a total prick.

Nah, a total prick would have let Isaac die.

Incidentally, I heard an interesting interpretation that Abraham was testing God at the same time, to see if He was worthy of worship.

Yet more evidence that apologists can "interpret" anything they want from a fundamentally evil text.

Sorry, I didn't realize we were talking about The Communist Manifesto.

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Re: Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #224 on: January 12, 2016, 04:30:45 pm »
Is...were you going somewhere with that, UP?

I can't follow your egregious breaks with logic.
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