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[–] BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

As someone who has spent plenty of time on 4chan. It's people from all over the world just wanting to be hugged, they are miserable but it's because they want to be loved.

My 4chan experience is using the video game board almost exclusively for over a decade.

The right wingers hate black people and trans people and all only look for porn with black people or trans people.

4chan exists beyond the understanding of regular people. It's lunacy, it's maddening. But it's fun.

Right wingers keep trying to force their nonsense ideals and then they go to the porn boards and look at interracial cuckolding and trans porn.. They hate themselves and they take it out on the rest of us.

I am not an American, I've got so many problems with my own country.

Good luck to you Trans people.. I'm a straight white man from Australia and I'm sleeping on the couch unable to avoid how scared I am of my Chinese wife. Anxiety and depression live in my brain telling me to kill myself all the time.

I wish I could be born with a different brain. Sorry that was insensitive.. You've lived your entire life that way.. I'm only at about year 25 living 37 years.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

When I watched the Q-anon documentary, the people who ran 8 chan looked exactly what I thought they would look like.

[–] VeryBlandUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Think of all the Republicans who get outed as gay. It's why Grindr gets overloaded when the RNC comes into town.

A bunch of closeted folk who can't accept themselves end up in the Republican party and turning into some of the most hateful and spiteful people imaginable who just want others to hurt as well.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

science doesnt allow chocolate to be grown on trees

Not with that attitude it doesnt. Give us a few hundred years and we'll have them growing it fully formed, with caramel inside.

Cocoa beans are actually roots.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 25 points 21 hours ago

Speaking as someone who was a born nihilist, atheism ain't got shit to do with that, you were just a reactionary turd. Get in to goth like a normal person.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

science doesn't allow chocolate to grow on trees

SMRT

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Everyone knows chocolate is produced in a lab as a result of a complicated chemical process and is definitely not a real occurring natural organic product that grows from a plant.

I mean yeah it's not a tree, but still.

The definition of 'tree'is very timey-wimey

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that period of time, where you believe nothing matters, so consequences don't matter, until you realize that just because it doesn't matter in the long run, it still sucks and you still have to deal with it, is one of the more challenging aspects of childhood atheism.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

That's not atheism, that's nihilism which is different.

Atheists don't believe in God, largely because religion doesn't really answer any of the big questions. No particular mode of behaviour is required of an atheist. You certainly don't need to go around being destructive of quasi religious icons (Christmas trees aren't even related to Christianity it's a corporate thing).

Nihilism is just the people who are having a midlife crisis, or are just play acting at depression in order to get attention. It's not a philosophical position. It's just been whiny.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

It's more like an offshoot of being raised religious and realizing none of it adds up but it still is a part of your worldview so it's easy to swing from one extreme to the other.

If god isn't real nothing matters so you can do what you want. Then the consequences of reality hit and you realize that just because god isn't real doesn't mean the consequences aren't.

[–] VeryBlandUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Atheists are just the other side of the coin from religion, they KNOW there is no god and nothing you say matters. They can't prove it, but they have absolute faith and will fight you every step of the way because their dogma demands it.

Agnostics are more the chill ones. They know they can't prove if there is or isn't, they just know religion isn't for them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

That's a mental hang up on your part. How do you prove the lack of something?

Christmas trees are actually an older pagan thing that happens in several cultures, but the practice is pretty close to an old Saturnalia tradition.

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 day ago

Anon learns the hard way that for most families, Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity especially when kids are involved.

[–] wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What's annoying about religious people discussing atheism(which happens every time it's brought up) is that they invariably assume atheists also have religious thinking. Like I must go to atheist church every Sunday to convince myself there's no god. It betrays either a lack of empathy or a lack of honesty.

Nah, I tended my garden, had some coffee, and going to have some tacos later. I only think about religion when it's brought up, usually when I see a billboard telling me my life is worthless and magic daddy is gonna have me for barbeque after I die.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It betrays a lack of theory of mind, likely indicating they're below a fuzzy sort of threshold below which you don't have the cognitive bandwidth to imagine a perspective beyond your own.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago

Of course there's also the group that are probably intelligent enough to understand that other people think differently to them, but don't care because they are narcissists.

Which is how you get conservatives.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anon blames Atheism for being a pos

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 day ago (16 children)
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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 138 points 1 day ago (104 children)

Sounds like Atheism, like all belief systems, empowered an asshole with self-righteous validation. Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn't mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Atheism isn't really a belief system by itself. It can refer to a lot of things, including positive atheism (the claim that there is not/cannot be a god/supernatural entity), negative atheism (the lack of belief in a deity due to lack of evidence), the absence of religion and many other things. Militant atheism, on the other hand, definitely counts and is susceptible to all the failings you mentioned.

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[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

empathy is a higher order law.

Anon forgot that having an asshole doesn’t mean you should regularly act like one.

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[–] FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I have removed the chocolate from the tree. Science doesn't allow chocolate to grow on trees"

Anon science'd so hard he because a superstitious nutcase (many such cases). This is completely zealot brained.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Oh there's a LOT people (usually from the US) who just replace whater evangelical bs they were socialised on with a New Thing that they run on the same evangelical lines. It's why we have purity politicking everywhere

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (7 children)

chocolate doesnt grow on trees

bruh

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

"You know what I hate the most about religion? Its the way they try to shove their beliefs down your throat!"

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great thing about atheism Anon, no one made ha do that shit but you, and you get to take full responsibility for your actions without the cop-out of "demonic possession". Take that beating with pride knowing that you posses radical freedom.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is basivi when somebody tries to be an atheist in a dogmatic, religious way.

Being atheist, at least to me, means that you don't care about any of that crap, you just try to be a nice person and let others be

I'm "militant" enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they're nothing but tools for control, but I won't beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales

[–] Gregers@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like atheist in predominantly religious societies tend to behave a bit different, and I can understand that teenagers would want to make a big deal out of it.

My parents were atheists, and so have I been my entire life. But we still celebrated Christmas because it was nice and a tradition. We didn't go to church or do any religious stuff during Christmas, but ate a traditional Christmas meal, had a Christmas tree, presents and what not.

Religion was just not a topic at all, unless religious people did stupid stuff in the name of religion

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

I'm straight up born atheist, hubs is agnostic. We go hard on christmas because fuck you it's fun.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm "militant" enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they're nothing but tools for control, but I won't beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales

I agree. Hate religion, not the practitioner. Unless that particular believer is a dick.

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