Euphoric atheists

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I have never even had the desire to put on a fedora. I happen to like my hair though.

The only person I actually know who wears a fedora is a Mormon going on a mission soon. It's going to look like an tag team of an euphoric atheist and a Mormon missionary going to people's door.
 
Sperglord Dante said:
I'd hate to be one of these assholes, grow the fuck out of my euphoric phase and realize there's several pictures of myself sporting a fedora and/neckbeard floating on the internet.
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When I think about it, people like me in their early 20's or something actually kinda lucked out.

I mean, when we were retarded teenagers we got to enjoy the basic benefits of social media to help keep in touch with our friends (or lack thereof). But at the same time social media sites were just beginning to grow, meaning the vast majority of websites archiving are stupidity, euphoric or otherwise are either gone, unrecognizable or so archaic and shittily designed that finding anything specific is virtually impossible.

Now in an age where every facebook message, forum post or tumblr blog is constantly being archived, with each platform showing very few signs of going away completely, ensuring every stupid-ass thing you do isn't ever going away. For the most part we kinda got to work with a clean slate after we became marginally less stupid...unless you had like a Gaia account like me lord knows how many years ago, and have the pleasure of reading every embarrassing post you ever made.
 
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Sperglord Dante said:
Powerlvl'ing here, but Penn & Teller's Bullshit was one of the things that pushed me to become an edgy atheist in my early teens. Good thing social media wasn't as widely spread back then! I'd hate to be one of these assholes, grow the fuck out of my euphoric phase and realize there's several pictures of myself sporting a fedora and/neckbeard floating on the internet.
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I've loved Penn & Teller since I first saw them a long time ago, and Bullshit! was a great show. They aren't infallible or anything, though, and Penn can be a bit of a smug douche, but since he's funny, I don't really care. He mainly pisses off people who deserve it. One of the dumber episodes they did was on secondhand smoking, which was sort of funny, because they did it weeks before a major study came out showing that secondhand smoking was basically as bad or worse as previously thought. As they often did, they used a lot of Cato Institute bullshit to prove that the risks from secondhand smoking were bullshit. But it was actually the episode that was bullshit.

Most of them were a lot better, though.
 
AnOminous said:
I've loved Penn & Teller since I first saw them a long time ago, and Bullshit! was a great show. They aren't infallible or anything, though, and Penn can be a bit of a smug douche, but since he's funny, I don't really care. He mainly pisses off people who deserve it. One of the dumber episodes they did was on secondhand smoking, which was sort of funny, because they did it weeks before a major study came out showing that secondhand smoking was basically as bad or worse as previously thought. As they often did, they used a lot of Cato Institute bullshit to prove that the risks from secondhand smoking were bullshit. But it was actually the episode that was bullshit.

Most of them were a lot better, though.
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Out of all the libertarians that I'm familiar with, he's one of the ones that I can really like even though I don't agree with many of his views. His podcast is also pretty good to me.
 
AnOminous said:
I've loved Penn & Teller since I first saw them a long time ago, and Bullshit! was a great show. They aren't infallible or anything, though, and Penn can be a bit of a smug douche, but since he's funny, I don't really care. He mainly pisses off people who deserve it. One of the dumber episodes they did was on secondhand smoking, which was sort of funny, because they did it weeks before a major study came out showing that secondhand smoking was basically as bad or worse as previously thought. As they often did, they used a lot of Cato Institute bullshit to prove that the risks from secondhand smoking were bullshit. But it was actually the episode that was bullshit.

Most of them were a lot better, though.
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Ah, the same epjsode where they compared second hand smoke to being offended by the hairy feet of the hobbits. Yeah, not their best.

The show was pretty fun and the episodes where they called out real bullshitters (doom prophets, PETA) hold up nicely, but it should be seen as entertainment and not a super reliable source of information or ineffable rethoric, since they cherry picked and strawmanned quite a bit.
 
NeverHappened said:
I have never even had the desire to put on a fedora. I happen to like my hair though.

The only person I actually know who wears a fedora is a Mormon going on a mission soon. It's going to look like an tag team of an euphoric atheist and a Mormon missionary going to people's door.
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I wore a fedora when I was 13. In my defense, it was 1991 and I was going through my "Blossom/Clarissa Darling" phase.
 
Reddit Avenger said:
When I think about it, people like me in their early 20's or something actually kinda lucked out.

I mean, when we were retarded teenagers we got to enjoy the basic benefits of social media to help keep in touch with our friends (or lack thereof). But at the same time social media sites were just beginning to grow, meaning the vast majority of websites archiving are stupidity, euphoric or otherwise are either gone, unrecognizable or so archaic and shittily designed that finding anything specific is virtually impossible.

Now in an age where every facebook message, forum post or tumblr blog is constantly being archived, with each platform showing very few signs of going away completely, ensuring every stupid-ass thing you do isn't ever going away. For the most part we kinda got to work with a clean slate after we became marginally less stupid...unless you had like a Gaia account like me lord knows how many years ago, and have the pleasure of reading every embarrassing post you ever made.
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I think that probably since every job applicant will have stupid stuff archived it will mean that most employers will just ignore it.
 
Fucking wow

Ow, the edge!

http://www.nonprophetess.com/proposed-solution-to-religion-genocide/

The owner of the blog is an insufferable douche, but the email she got was so much worse.

So much bad wow that I evolved into mega-Doge.
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"woman's rights activist"

Uh, no thanks, we're good.
 
Superior beings apparently don't have time for such petty mortal constraints as grammar: "our modern world is being hold back"

And there's that autistic belief in nice, clean, unambiguous "levels" to things, again.

A lot of self-professed geniuses I've seen believe in that video-game -like fallacy that there are preset "levels" that once a given being has enough "XP", it jumps to, as any biologist will tell you though, that's bunk. Evolution is about selecting for traits that are beneficial right now, not progressing to more "advanced" stage.
 
RedneckQuadFeed said:
Speaking of euphoric facebook pages[...]
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The couple about hell seem to make good points, but (1) not everyone believes in hell like that or that God is some kind of vengeful being who casts people in there, and (2) the rest are pretty in-your-face euphoric, I think.

TowinKarz said:
progressing to more "advanced" stage.
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Evolution pretty much happens everytime a new organism is born. A lot of little changes add up over time. I guess some people play a little too much pokeymanz.
 
Actual, real question: why do they all wear fedoras and have neckbeards? What is it about being a militant atheist/brony that drives people to have the same damn type of facial hair and wear the same hat?
 
Silver said:
Actual, real question: why do they all wear fedoras and have neckbeards? What is it about being a militant atheist/brony that drives people to have the same damn type of facial hair and wear the same hat?
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They're too lazy to shave, and they think the hat makes them look like sophisticated gentlemen. To what degree these people dress like tools varies, but I believe it's the fedora's relative simplicity and visibility that allowed it to become the pièce de résistance of euphoria.
 
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