FuglyDuck @ FuglyDuck @lemmy.world

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Yup. So during the Abbasid caliphs, religious scholars weren’t as influential. They were definitely Muslim, but they weren’t opposed to science.

But then, the religious scholars became both more influential and more conservative. The secular scholars started asking questions that were, how shall we say, uncomfortable?

You can also see this shift in the transition from a more rationalist Mu’tazilite tradition to Ash’arite.

This is the inevitable shift. As science seeks an understanding of the universe, through observation and experimentation rather than faith it’s finding an understanding that best explains a universe without god.

It is inevitable that the religious mind either abandons their faith, or abandons science. (Unless of course we stumble onto evidence for god. But, I don’t believe that’s gonna happen.)

Ultimately, if god existed and created everything… science would be another form of worship.

Can we talk about how this guy literally does not believe in 175 year old, settled science?

For the record, you should all have a go bag. Not like doomsday prepper go bags with a dozen cross bows and a semi truck full of ammunition and shit, but some clothes, some food. Medication and basic first aid, etc. copies of all your important documents.

Especially in the US with how FEMA is going. Have a plan. Have supplies for the plan.

But… eh…. Prepping for this ? Naw.

For the record, the Arab world wasn’t always anti-science. It was religion that got them there.

Not all authoritarian regimes are anti-science. Some would be very interested in things for domestic use, it might be slower, and such, though.

"he's not even trying to dupe the nation first! he's just... bombing them! You can do that!" is probably not criticism so much as... you know... like envy or something.

Not that Louisiana is any better, lol.

At least Alaska has a good excuse (distance. Travel difficulties, etc.)

it's so far past hickville that even banjo players paddle faster.

"vote blue, no matter who. (Unless we don't like them.)"

message received. These people should be ashamed of themselves. I wonder if they'll even realize they're the ones splitting the party.

The end of facism is always the same. Eventually the regime falls and these clowns get what’s coming to them. It’s not an ‘if’, it’s a ‘when’.

They might win tomorrow. They might win next week, ext year. But they’ll lose.

All it takes is one fire to get out of control, and there are dozens of fires burning. Potentially hundreds. All it takes is one loss and we start winning. And they will lose.

Time is not on their side.

for a second there, I thought he was gonna donate to Obama or something.

eh. that'd be something.

you and me both.

you and me both.

Yes. I totally agree.

guess my point is that the ICE agents need to look at what happened to collaborators after the nazis were removed. it's not going to end well for them.

You're not wrong, but like. Imagine, if you will, Hegseth needing to be sober to speak into a microphone or tweet something out. Or otherwise be a SecDef.

On a general note: IQ means nothing. I mean a lot of IQ tests use pattern recognition tasks that can be helpful but still, having a high IQ says nothing about you ability as developer

to put this another way... expertise is superior to intelligence. Unfortunately we have this habit of conflating the two. intelligent people some times do some incredibly stupid things because they lack the experience to understand why something is stupid.

Being a skilled doctor or surgeon doesn't make you skilled at governance. two different skillsets.

history sanitizes these assholes as "collaborators". and then talks about people that did the nazis' laundry. or worked in the brewhouse or maybe helped with local councils or something, as if the launderer and wait staff really had a choice, or there weren't gangs actively helping with the hunt.

I also learned that Freud had an interesting obsession with his mom's tits.

Seriously.

Somebody should put a breathalyzer interlock device in that guys mic. And his devices for posting.

Or maybe he bombs Bejing for shits and giggles.

one of the quirks of main coons is apparently, that they like being shoulder cats. More cat than shoulder, really. (not that that's a complaint. just an observation)