I swear to god there is a guy here in this cafe explaining to a woman about how there wasn't GRAVITY before Newton "made it up."
One of his proofs is "how do you think they made the pyramids?"
I adore Alan Moore but there's a bit in one of his interviews where he declares that Native Americans literally couldn't see European ships because the ships were outside their known paradigm and it's like-- I can't watch someone I respect debase themselves with such chloroformed toddler logic.
So in the TV show “The Expanse” Holden repeats that bit of nonsense and hearing that Moore repeated it made me go look it up because of how willfully ignorant the statement seems, though it SOUNDS clever.
Yes it’s BS and based off some European tourist writing dumb shit. TIL.
Odd that this doesn't happen regularly today given all the new things that haven't existed before.
"This is a [insert unique technological achievement here]."
"I'm sorry, but you aren't holding anything."
This sounds so terribly, profoundly brain-damaged. Like, the 1st people to see meteors would have been seeing something outside their known paradigm, yet apparently could figure it out.
I once had a convo with a flat earther, where another guy walked up who was a pilot. He refuted the flat earth thing, the FE left, then we chatted briefly and I realized the pilot thought the earth was 6k years old.
Legit was on board with a globe, but dinosaur bones were put there as a trick…. 🤦♀️
One of my friends got his hair cut by a woman who told him she thought Dino bones were a trick and we just thought she was her own brand of crazy. Now I know that’s a real thing people actually believe
I have an approach to these kinds of people that, if the opportunity ever arises, I intend to implement.
“So, reality is dictated by belief, eh?” Then I lead them to a high balcony — say, ten stories up — and say “Jump.”
no see, the current culture has damaged their ability to truly believe they can fly, that's why they have to move the wider culture towards their beliefs, by any means necessary.
Well, that’s not that new of an idea but I think that we have pretty good records indicating that people collectively believed in gravity before it was described with, you know, math. Or whatever
But if he wasn’t talking about this idea from the standpoint of explaining the double-slit experiment/quantum uncertainty through the theory of biocentrism, then he was just a garden variety ketamine addict
