richieadler

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[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Visitors

You're a the leader of an alien race roaming the universe in search of sentience. You arrive to Earth and your projections see that human life will perish in less than 100 years unless humans revert the damage to the planet.

You explain this. You promise amazing tech and knowledge if the changes start happening. Nothing changes in the first year. In fact, trillionaires push through social media and the news outlets scream about the danger of "the alien woke mind virus" and people starts hating you.

Your mission, through draconian and inapelable actions, is to decimate the power of trillionaires, redistribute wealth, ensure all countries have progressive governments which promote education, science and general prosperity. Violent, backward, antiscience countries, regardless of their former power, must get removed from the political scene so the more humane, friendly, humanitarian countries start collaborating in improving the world.

It would be a total commercial failure, but what a notion.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I guarantee that there are legions of people for whom this is exceedingly subtle.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

No arguments like all believers. Go cry to church, then.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope you don't procreate until you get rid of your religious delusion.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy,

I don't care a iota about philosophy, in fact.

pure math

Pure math is a self-contained system that only occasionally is useful in reality

and string theory

String theory has no full international scientific consensus, so for now is just a possible model of reality. Does it bother you?

Then don’t fucking answer the question.

You seem to think I recognize your authority to give me orders. I don't.

Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.

As long as they postulate it as fiction, I don't have an issue with that. The moment they posit they ideas are real, they're exposed to scrutiny to those among us who care about what's real and what's not.

As a final note, your tantrum is somewhat amusing, but in a different sense is somewhat sad. Make of that what you want.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And its foreign policy is destroying countries for profit.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Reasonable. I still view it as beyond my own boundaries.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Discussing about a being whose existence cannot be verified in reality is an exercise in futility.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Something verifiable which comports with reality.

Present evidence of your god in a way that satisfies the conditions in https://tiny.cc/SD_proof and I will probably believe it.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Same about any notions of heaven, souls or afterlife.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tell the truth kindly. That doesn't include comforting lies about "afterlife".

[–] richieadler@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You posit an unproven and unprovable character as fact and then retreat? Not very fair on your part.

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