To me it is about gaslighting and arguing for the sake of arguing. We’ve long been in this realm of society now where nobody wants facts or truths, they just want you to be wrong. I have before, cited resources in arguments I’ve shamefully invested in, knowing that it will not matter in the end. Because I’m still going to be called a liar, I’m still going to be subjected to insults and be baited and gaslit.

And the same people still turn around and expect credible sources to be provided to them? Why ask when you don’t care?

It is one thing for someone to make outrageous, blatant and unclaimed arguments than it is another who talks of something and it has a resemblance of truth to it.

  • Mugita Sokio@discuss.online
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    6 hours ago

    I have this happen a lot, so I know a thing or two about it from experience. That’s thanks to the Jesuit programming some people are subjected to, which I feel really bad for those who fall for it. I see this on Lemmy a lot, and my producer (Neigsendoig) had seen this happen elsewhere.

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      I find it interesting you call it Jesuit programming.

      Some of the greatest scientists from India were evidently religious but they were also extremely scientific. I guess monotheistic dogma does run counter to multifaceted scientific evidence.

      That said, there’s still a lot of Christian scientists who do not discard of evidence. It’s just that OP is talking to the wrong people.