Quote from: TC on Feb 19, 2019, 02:34:44 AM
The sad truth is that there are more stupid people in the world than smart people. I've come to believe that the Bell curve of human IQ is not symmetrical, but highly weighted towards the dumb end.
I was once in a lecture theatre when the tutor got sidetracked and told us how she could see peoples' auras. Gradually, other students in the room started saying how all of a sudden they could see her aura. She was darkly lit but standing in front of a bright white board. Apparently these people had made it all the way to adulthood and yet failed to notice the visual after-effect the eye responds with after observing a dark silhouette in front of a bright field.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage
No, these people weren't kidding around.
TC
Some people are crazy. They think we're living inside an anime, or something
While
being an intelligent individual doesn't necessarily mean being a rational one, I believe that things like a bad education & lack of critical thinking can make people see the world in black and white, which makes them embrace totalitarian ideologies, superstitions or fringe science. However, sometimes the Internet can make things worse.
Quote from: Kradan on Feb 21, 2019, 02:28:07 PM
Quote from: The Kurgan on Feb 21, 2019, 02:24:22 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Feb 21, 2019, 02:22:44 PM
I don't get why believing in evolution is considered as smart but believing in Space God isn't.
Because one is well documented with scientific evidence while the other is not
Well, so then why it considered that they're contradict each other?
Talking of evidence. We still don't have time machine to see actually what happened and what didn't in the past.
The roots of the ancient aliens' concept
are older than folks like Erich von Daniken or even prior to Lovecraft's fiction; with as a somewhat esoteric idea about metaphysical entities from the planet Venus, who played a key role in the development of the ancient civilizations.
Ok, perhaps the hypothetical idea of extraterrestrial visits in the ancient past is not entirely impossible (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence), but the disappointing truth is that they have been failed when trying to support their thesis. Nowadays it's only a dishonest business based on profit at the expense of people's ignorance.
https://vimeo.com/50767374