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I see you've had your turn to be invaded by the spam machine.

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Yeah but most of this person's spam is usually somehow tangentially relevant to the topic so I let it slide

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Your arguments make perfect sense to the weak minded and science-denying antivaxxers. Please keep your imaginary sky daddy out of my EARNED federal VA healthcare and please provide your dates of military service and college transcripts.

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lol ooooh the "sky daddy" talking point. how edgy and enlightened of you, condescending to the plebs who believe in anything transcendent.

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I'm more fascinated by the science denying antivaxxers part of the comment. What does that even mean, really? According to my own truth the jabs are unsafe and not effective

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I think this individual is either a troll or too stupid to merit a serious response

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The appeal to credentials coupled with the bitching about even mentioning religion as a thing that exists was interesting.

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Yes the contradiction was thick there!

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3/10 no feet pics

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The problem, as I see it, is even if this whole line of thought is right, once you've killed God, there's no going back.

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Yes. I'm light on solutions here. And I'm certainly not opining for the pre-Enlightenment.

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That's the thing. Want it or not, you just can't, short of destroying the entire modern record- harder said than done.

I predict the current societies rooted in religious fundamentalism are just a few decades behind us and will have their own inevitable mind virus tearing their societies apart.

This is probably one of those convergences that every timeline has.

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Whatever the answer is I'm fairly sure it will involve psychedelics administered responsibly at scale

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Well, it's not like we could object, stop it, or probably even see it coming in time.

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