Euphoric atheists

[Positron]

...Wikipedia is the source of the Ten Commandments...

What virtues does Wikipedia teach? What I see is just endless petty in-fightings and pop-culture fetishism.

...Neil DeGrasse Tyson as the paragon of human virtue...

While I respect Dr Tyson as a scientist and science popularizer, no person affiliated with PETA can be a paragon of human virtue. Indeed, his failure/unwillingness to question the outlandish claims of PETA (e.g. vegetarian diet enhances male sexual prowess) reflects badly on him as a scientist.

P.S. Mr. Ralph Intellectual misspelt "Neanderthal".

 

[Too Many Crooks]

Dawkins takes the hypocrisy cake again.

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[AnOminous]

I'm also guessing before and outside the internet, the average euphoric neckbeards pretty much keep to themselves about their claimed superiority because they can't exactly claim they're superior to "sheep" IRL without probable repercussions.

The more autistic neckbeard atheists, at least the ones who actually go outside, are usually actually gigantic dicks irl too. They're usually in nerd circles where people put up with them and the fact that they go into a stance of exaggerated mock horror whenever anyone says anything that could be interpreted as being religious in any way.

Semi-related: this RationalWiki article on My Little Pony I read last night because it was mentioned in another thread, where euphoric atheists spaz out about the supposedly religious implications of an mlp episode.

So in an albeit autistic, limited social setting of a bunch of bronies, you'd have an obese manchild raging that a show about magic ponies has magic in it.

 

[Reddit Avenger]

Isn't a university campus like, literally the last place on earth an atheist would need a "safe space"?

 

[Too Many Crooks]

Isn't a university campus like, literally the last place on earth an atheist would need a "safe space"?

Not to SJWs and narcissists.

 

[Derbydollar]

https://kiwifarms.net/media/atheism.556/full?d=1445751391

If this guy is for real, he is a moran and needs to get a brain at some point
Atheism can save you from God, but it can't save you from your own idiocy... Neckbeards too, it can't save you from those.

 

[c-no]

Dawkins takes the hypocrisy cake again.
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To be honest, I think that tweet from Dawkins was in reference to some university having a safe space where you had coloring books, nap time, and juice. And I'd agree with him on this in that a university shouldn't really be a safe-space if you didn't want to hear things that conflicted with your own views, especially since they are places where we try to learn subjects on a greater intellectual scale, be it science and religion or math and philosophy. As far as safe spaces go, whether secular or not, the only purpose they should have it let one feel safe among others even if said others don't share the same view.

Semi-related: this RationalWiki article on My Little Pony I read last night because it was mentioned in another thread, where euphoric atheists spaz out about the supposedly religious implications of an mlp episode.

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So in an albeit autistic, limited social setting of a bunch of bronies, you'd have an obese manchild raging that a show about magic ponies has magic in it.

From the looks of it, yes. Really, it's just a kids show where you have talking horses doing things a real life horse wouldn't like fly or read books. It's a cartoon, how pathetic would one have to be to get triggered by a cartoon that is geared towards kids. And reading that quoted bit where you can't explain things can be true. There are things we have yet to understand but we can get there to understanding them, right? Or am I just being optimistic on that part?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

raging that a show about magic ponies has magic in it

The creators of the show should make more episodes about the virtues of keeping an open mind.

 

[AnOminous]

Isn't a university campus like, literally the last place on earth an atheist would need a "safe space"?

It's not a matter of need, it's that it's one of the few places on the planet that would actually cater to something so infantile.

 

[TowinKarz]

I wonder what comes first.... the inability to be sociable .... or the smug superiority? Because these guys have both, in excess. And they have them in large enough amounts that they feed off one another and make both situations much more worse, but I still wonder.

Do you feel intrinsically better than the sheep, and therefore don't want to waste your time with them? Leading to social awkwardness?

Or, does your inability to fit in with them mean you, obviously, have evolved beyond their silly superstitions and social ritual? Leading you to treat your quasi-scientific musings as raw genius?

 

[Too Many Crooks]

I wonder what comes first.... the inability to be sociable .... or the smug superiority? Because these guys have both, in excess. And they have them in large enough amounts that they feed off one another and make both situations much more worse, but I still wonder.

Do you feel intrinsically better than the sheep, and therefore don't want to waste your time with them? Leading to social awkwardness?

Or, does your inability to fit in with them mean you, obviously, have evolved beyond their silly superstitions and social ritual? Leading you to treat your quasi-scientific musings as raw genius?

I think the insufferable smugness came first. Most people don't want to deal with that BS.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I wonder what comes first.... the inability to be sociable .... or the smug superiority?

My guess would be they normally both feed eachother and develop together, although the inability to socialize probably arose first in the euphoric guys with autism spectrum disorders -- poor social skills is a common symptom of ASD.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

One really annoying thing about these guys is how they act as if atheists are a persecuted group. It's one thing to pretend you're "evolved" and "enlightened" just because you don't happen to believe in a deity, but it's another thing to act like a martyr when all you do is post trite opinions and take unflattering pictures of your gut and neckbeard (fedora is a bonus). Hate to invoke Godwin's Law, but you know who really went through shit because of what they believed in? The Jews, six million of them in fact. Why? Because they happened to be religious. With the martyr complex that a lot of these guys exhibit, you'd think that atheists are being carted off to death camps or shot in the streets.

Sorry if slightly offtopic -- while Jews were persecuted for many centuries for their religion, the persecution under the 3rd Reich and the Holocaust where not religiously motivated but by racism. During the Middle Ages, a Jew could immediately avoid being persecuted by agreeing to be baptized. In the 3rd Reich, you could be a religious Jew, or an atheist one or one who has converted to Christianity - it didn't matter, the Nazis would hate and kill you all the same, because you belonged to an ethnicity they believed to be a force of evil.

 

[TowinKarz]

the inability to socialize probably arose first in the euphoric guys with autism spectrum disorders -- poor social skills is a common symptom of ASD.

It would also explain why they'd prefer "sciency" work since it deals with those nice, secure, objective and measurable amounts that autistic types just seem to love. As opposed to a "messier" discipline, like literary fiction.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

why they'd prefer "sciency" work

Somehow I doubt a typical euphoric fedora would leave mom's basement and get along with others well enough to work in the field.

Spoiler

Anyway, I don't think all scientists are on the spectrum, and I think there are some people on the spectrum who study and work with literary fiction as well.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

It would also explain why they'd prefer "sciency" work since it deals with those nice, secure, objective and measurable amounts that autistic types just seem to love. As opposed to a "messier" discipline, like literary fiction.

I thought the fedora-tippers preferred STEM material because they always like to remind "the sheeple" how "rational" they are, or some shit.

 

[Adamska]

I thought the fedora-tippers preferred STEM material because they always like to remind "the sheeple" how "rational" they are, or some shit.

Pretty much this; they use science to sound like they're more intelligent than they really are, much like how a fundie would pick from their favorite holy book to show off.

 

[Cosmos]

I just want to point out that this picture has 14,512 points. But then again, this is fucking 9gag, so we shouldn't get too upset.

I love Yellow's reply. No anger, no rebuttal, just a confused little "What a strange person" in response to Blue's outburst.

Oh my, so many things going on in this picture...

• Again the whole "I let science determine my beliefs, not any phony God" arrogant bullshit
• #VASTINTELLIGENCE
• A selfie containing a variation of a quote that's been done a million times already
• For extra points, the dude is quoting himself
• And best of all, he's tweeting this to Richard Dawkins!

Man, what is it with euphorics quoting themselves? You're not as clever as you think you are, guys.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

like to remind "the sheeple" how "rational" they are

Many on the spectrum (not just the stereotypical "neckbeard autist") seem to have an unusual attraction to a lack of ambiguity that translates to a love for numbers and unambiguous measurements. That isn't necessarily bad, and it can actually be put to good use.

As for "fedora tippers" who go into STEM to show a claimed superiority, I don't know how if any do that, and I think that if a smug socially impaired fedora goes into STEM just to establish superiority, they're in for a rude awakening just what it takes to be successful in a STEM field.

 

[Adamska]

Hilariously self-quotes are frowned upon academically, but then again most of the more cringey euphorics look like they either never went to college, dropped out, or got a degree in underwater basketweaving with how much they understand the things they fuck up.