>> Anonymous 01/07/21(Thu)20:00:47 No.27278031▶>>27278078 >>27277592 (OP) I don't know anything about redditors, but I often wonder the same thing about people. I can only speak to examples of people that I know that act this way. Many of them use their feelings about science, math, and the lack of religion/metaphysics/paranormal as a way to bolster themselves above others, or potentially away from their own insecurities. By reducing and simplifying and discarding complicated thoughts of others, we, as humans, sometimes seek to "dominate" our selves/environment through our intellect, in a kind of defensive way. Basically, if you control the intellectual paradigm, you can feel like you are king of the hill. And the reasons why people like to be king of the hill are varied- some people feel like they need it because they were beaten as children, emotionally or physically, some people like to do it because they like the thrill/power. But often if somebody clings to being the king of the hill, it is a desperation in one form or another, a NEED to dominate, else they may be dominated. This also sometimes comes down to a refusal to go without- if someone is willing to dominate in order to not go without food/sex/wife/house whatever, you might find them trying to justify their mental dominations the same way some thug would justify a physical one. That's basically a form of self induced rhetoric at that point- but deep down it's just a selling of themselves to secure something they find more valuable then the pursuit of truth. Anonymous 01/07/21(Thu)20:06:14 No.27278078▶ >>27278031 Since 'science' is (or was meant to be) means of finding "the truth", I'm sure a lot of folk follow it blindly. Though 'science' has ever been dominated by a lot of lies, self-deception and much more examples of harmful behavior, so it's not as clear as to what to follow anymore. Even so, it seems that disagreeing with certain ideas can put us in a very bad spot, even if we mean no harm. Earth, the clown world of the universe. >> Anonymous 01/07/21(Thu)20:28:17 No.27278205▶ >>27277592 (OP) Most people NEED to cling on science because they need something to ground them in. Otherwise they'll be scared to death. Every die hard science cuck I talked to is a feeble man once you strip him out of his beliefs. Here's what I always ask them (since I am not well versed enough to disprove specific aspects of science in its own medium and it's not what my goal is anyway): "Do you really think every single report, sight or story of people experimenting paranormal occurrences are ALL product of their imagination/illusions ? I'm not talking about some retarded believe the first internet story you read. I'm talking about every single one of these stories, that exist and were posted under your knowledge or not, all of them are all just lies ?" and when I ask this they reply to me with like a slightly delayed yes, but still a very firm yes as in they're 100% convinced of their belief. As in they don't even actually give the question any thoughts and just go for their de-facto answer. Which myself find pretty funny because considering the reasoning behind science most of the time, disregarding such a large pool of, not gonna say proofs, but 'samples', disregarding every last one of them goes very much against probability theory. Seriously believing that over a large part of the human civilization are all people who experienced illusions is honestly less believable than science being able to explain most things in life, to me. Besides, I don't get what's the deal with people being afraid of the paranormal. If anything we're the strange ones. If paranormal does exist, then it wouldn't really be anything special by itself. It'd just be phenomenons. We're the ones who observe all those things and give it much more thoughts and ideas than we probably should. We're the ones who characterize it and make us think asinine things like most of it would try to kill us/be harmful to us. We really are the only strange ones here. --- >> Anonymous 01/07/21(Thu)19:57:46 No.27278009▶>>27278030 because science is a intellectually power fantasy. Since redditors and nerd have no strengths in anything else so they flock to science. Because science gives them a smart badge, that's why most defended so savagely and I bet they don't realize that they are using the "science community" as a social shield and weapon. Also I notice most people fear paranormal and spiritual thoughts. Because when you bring it up, most get scared, and you can feel it. I wonder why they think like that though? isn't better to look at everything.