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All evidence to date suggests minds don't exist without brains, ergo a brain must exist first for a mind to exist. Your move Deepak.
 
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Sebudai_sl said:
Somebody alert The Edge! People are making fun of his messiah!
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"Today my awareness will remain established in Defenselessness. I will relinquish the need to defend my point of view. I will feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view. I will remain open to all points of view and not be rigidly attached to any one of them."

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hodj_sl said:
A truth not worth defending is a lie.
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"Truth does not need to be defended, for it just IS. What is true will remain true no matter what anyone will do or say about it. What is not true requires that false "evidence" for it be constantly created, because it does not exist of itself. "
 
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Nah, truth most definitely needs to be defended. That's just straight stupid. Creation Museum rebuts that entire retarded premise.

Are you seriously quoting Deepak Chopra? Because if so EL OH EL.
 
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Oh look at that, google the quote and the first result is an astrology website

http://www.astrologyzine.com/truth-n...efending.shtml

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"Truth Needs No Defending"

Truth does not need to be defended, for it just IS. What is true will remain true no matter what anyone will do or say about it. What is not true requires that false "evidence" for it be constantly created, because it does not exist of itself.
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Literally word for word.

Well that pretty much sums up exactly why the truth needs defending, from liars and the lies they spread. Astrology is bullshit, by the way.

Like Deepak Chopra.

""There are two ways to view the stars: as they really are; and as we might wish them to be.
-Carl Sagan[1]

Astrology is the mass cultural delusion that the apparent position of the sun and planets relative to arbitrarily defined "star signs" at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.[2]

According to the Faculty of Astrological Studies, astrology "explores the meaningful connection between mankind and the wider cosmos, the relationship between the movements of the planets and the inner world of human consciousness and motivation."[3] Some supporters like to emphasise that astrology is complex, and goes beyond just the simple "Sun Signs" people are used to[4] and others like to add amusing little rationales such as "Every human being contains every sign and every planet."[5] Stripped of any fancier and woo-like terms, it is the belief that huge balls of rocks, liquids, gases, and nuclear fusion reactions millions or billions of miles away from Earth can affect the financial, sexual, emotional, and employment situations of individual carbon-based life forms on one specific planet. Put like that, it sounds absurd, yet unlike many practitioners of alternative medicine who like to hide the absurdities behind complex terminology or assertions of mysterious energies, even fairly "advanced" astrology is still pretty open about the fact it's predicting the future based on staring into the sky.[6]

This widely believed idea has never produced any worthwhile and conclusive predictions, in spite of having several different formulations across disparate cultures. As far as astrology produces falsifiable predictions, it has been thoroughly falsified as no better than guesswork. As all the "evidence" that it is true is only anecdotal, selectively reported, or made up, it is an excellent example of a woo explanation for something quite mundane.
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Astrology - RationalWiki

Maybe if cocksucking con men didn't spend so much time making shit up, the truth wouldn't need defending, but in the world we live in, with all the irrational bullshit that this thread exemplifies, the truth most definitely needs defenders.
 
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No, the fact that the words are demonstrably bullshit is what makes them untrue.

The fact that the source was an astrology website is just icing on the horseshit cake.
 
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Some guy who convinced a lot of smart people to do some very terrible things
 
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Deepak dove headfirst into the shallow end of both biology and quantum mechanics. He hit his head on the bottom of the pool and has been chasing little birdies ever since.

It's hard to blame the poor guy too, too much though because let's be honest, quantum mechanics + biology does not = an easy ride.

I see ole' Chopper-ah as a really bright dude who just got lost in the maze. He took on two of the more complicated intellectual mazes of our time (QM and Bio) and I applaud the ambition that it took to do so. Fortunately for him, although he did not find the delicious chewy center of the maze, hedidfind Oprah Winfrey. I hope he enjoys his money hats. I truly do.
 
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AngryGerbil_sl said:
I see ole' Chopper-ah as a really bright dude who just got lost in the maze.
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He didn't get lost. He deliberately misrepresents it. Too many actual physicists and other scientists have debunked him for him not to realize how much bullshit he is spewing.
 
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khalid_sl said:
He didn't get lost. He deliberately misrepresents it. Too many actual physicists and other scientists have debunked him for him not to realize how much bullshit he is spewing.
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Much like Ray Comfort, Eric and Kent Hovind, Vani Hari, and all hucksters, con artists, snake oil salesmen, etc.
 
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One of my old best friends(we don't really hang out any more) posted on my Facebook yesterday that he's seen two UFOs in the last couple years, when I posted about the Pluto fly-by.
 
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Barraco Bisi_sl said:
One of my best friends totally believes in the power of reiki

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My masseuse does too. She's paid money to become certified or whatever in it. I don't give a shit though, she gives good massages and that's what matters. I enjoy watching her gather up the evil energies from the table before we begin. No happy endings, but even without them, she's the second best masseuse I've had.
 
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This is Lumie-esque so I figured this was the best place for it:Anti-Vax Parents Look To Sue After Daughter Gets Shots
When I was a teenager, I spent all my babysitting money on vintage clothes, Manic Panic, and clove cigarettes. I thought I was so cool, but I was nowhere near as cool as the Ontario teen who took her health into her own hands and went and got herself vaccinated against the wishes of her anti-vaxxer parents.

Her mother, of course, was furious, and turned to Reddit's /r/legaladvice forum to ask whom she was allowed to sue about this. She wrote:

"None of my children are vaccinated. Totally by accident I came to find out that my oldest daughter has been fully vaccinated (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hep a and b, menengitis a and b and hpv) without mine or my husband's knowledge or consent. In Ontario we have socialized medicine and publicly funded vaccines. She admitted she went to clinics run for school aged children run by our local health public health unit to get her shots and also got a few at a local walk in clinic that are not yet publicly funded paid for with her babysitting money. When I called public health and the clinic to complain they both said that because she is age 16 they cannot release any information to me - and I'm her mother! My husband and are livid that she was vaccinated without our consent. What kind of action can we take against public health and the clinic for vaccinating a child without parental consent? Do we have a case for a lawsuit?"

Reddit, of course, enjoyed a delightful summer shower in anti-vaxxer tears over this post, because the poster's teenage daughter is smart and awesome and deserves a high-five for taking her health into her own hands. Also Ontario deserves a high-five for its socialized medicine and publicly funded vaccines that allowed this 16-year-old to get up-to-date on all her vaccinations.
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There's something deeply funny about a teenage girl channelling her rebelliousness into being smarter than her dumb parents: "No fuck you Mum!"*goes and gets vaccinated*
 
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