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“If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who comes ambling along.” ~ Carl Sagan (twitter.com)
posted 3 years ago by NotAGlowy 3 years ago by NotAGlowy +25 / -0
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– HarryPearce 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

This is entirely "when I am out of power, I ask for freedom, for that is your principle. When I am in power, I deny you freedom, for that is my principle"

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– Sneak_King 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

Sagan would've 💯 been a vaxxtard. It's The Science, after all.

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– Adamrises 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

Most of the "skeptical, fight the power, question authority" heroes of the past would be.

Turns out most of them just really hated religion.

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

And didn't recognize that State-ism and Intersectional Feminism are the new religions.

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– Adamrises 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Like is so often the case, their side is the "right and good" one so they don't need to apply the same critical rules to them. And as the other side is "evil and holding progress back" it can be removed by any means necessary.

They were also retarded at even their own Science. Because they didn't take a half second to grasp why religions exist in ever civilization, and they evolution takes longer than a few centuries. Thereby human brains are nowhere near ready to completely discard them, only replace flavors.

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

they didn't take a half second to grasp why religions exist in every civilization

Ironic that the explanation for it was discarded alongside it. Memes, in the Dawkinsian sense, are incredibly useful, even vital, to society. (Insert MGS Armstrong speech here) You don't kill a meme without something to replace it, it's just as bad as killing a gene. Anything, or nothing, could grow in its place, and both are equally dangerous.

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– lapalapa 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Or scientism.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Religion or Republicans. Most of the anti-authority folk singers of decades past became professional establishment dick washers the moment they believed the Republican party was finished. That's why they got so embarrassed in 2016 that many of them went genuinely psychotic. They dropped the mask too early and were left exposed for the world to see.

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– Adamrises 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

If you asked them, I doubt they'd draw any seperation between those two. Even today, the idea that someone isn't Right leaning without religious reasons is shocking to them.

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– Ahaus667 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

These liberal arguments were always a lie until they got power. Look at what happened to “liberal” college campuses, “liberal” media, and “liberal” government

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– dekachin 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

The lib mantra of recent years is to worship "teh science" like a cult, which is nothing more than a naked appeal to authority fallacy - which they immediately dispense with whenever the authorities are not telling them what they want to hear.

So the libs never cared about science or authority. All they ever cared about, and all they ever will care about, is pushing their mind virus agenda. Like a river of shit, they will flow into any argument they think will give them immediate advantage. They have no principles. Never have. Never will. They exist as a force of pure destruction to tear down all that is Right and Good, and replace it with abject degeneracy, followed closely and ultimately and always, by communism.

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– Benevolentdictator 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I apparently had no idea what Carl Sagan actually looked like.

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– Gizortnik 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I'm used to seeing him with more hair.

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– Gizortnik 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah, that is the point.

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