Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Why Do You Make People Look Stupid?" video.

  1. The first step to knowledge is the recognition of ones own ignorance. That's also how dogma makes you immune to knowledge. You don't learn anything, because you already think you know that "god did it".
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  2. +EliteRocketBear People like you are the problem. Arrogant morons, who can't acknowledge their own ignorance, because of a feeling of shame.
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  3. ***** No, you must acknowledge that your attitude is the problem in learning or teaching ANYTHING. It's exactly the thing that prevents people from learning. This enormous feeling of pride and superiority. I think this is another symptom of the Dunning Krueger effect. Earlier in my life I was more like you, but after I went to university I lost that part of me more and more. The more you know, the more you also know about things you don't know. And you lose this arrogant attitude.
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  4. Joshua Smith Science is unique in that it utilizes the opposite of dogmatism. A "scientific" dogma is like a edged circle: not a proper circle.
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  5. Dmagz Idiotic apologist arguments + broken English. That's usually a good indication of Islamic proselytization. And even without that information, Islam would be my second best bet.
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  6. Rick McGuffey Your quote makes the earth flat and the heaven a dome above it, you fool. You have just disproven your own claim.
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  7. Martin Verrisin I don't think he's a troll. I think he's convinced that he has a point and a healthy attitude.
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  8. Filip Krstevski Do you want to convert me to Islam by showcasing your laughable ignorance?
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  9. Yassin Kortam In order to be a douchebag, I would need to wear tight V-neck shirts, visit the tanning salon and the fitness studio regularly, call other men "bro" and be creepy towards women.
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  10. Captain Crunched True, it was an example.
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  11. Filip Krstevski You are not. You are using all of the accomplishments of rational inquiry. Be they social or technological. Everything from equality and freedom to crops and antibiotics is result of research, not revelation.
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  12. Lawl Mart Yes it did. All throughout history it was very hard for many people to accept their observations and findings when they contradicted religious dogma. Some rejected what they saw with their own eyes and concluded with their own brains, because it went against what they were taught as children. Some were persecuted because they held on to truth which contradicted the church and holy scripture. Even today you find people, who still think the earth is under 10000 years old and all animal species were created in their current form. But dogma also comes in more subtle forms than organized religion. For example in terms we like to use - in language that can trap us. A male - female dichotomy might make us overlook hermaphrodites. A particle - wave dichotomy might make us blind to the actual attributes of light. However you are right to talk about religion, because in it dogmatism and intellectual dishonesty and resistance to learning are incarnated. There the failure to correct yourself is not a bug, but the main feature. Blind faith is the selling point.
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  13. >>that saying an entire theist demographic is "immune to knowledge" would be ignorant in and of itself<< They are not of course. No religious person is altogether consumed by his religion. Noone fully buys into the dogma. Not even the people from the WBC, not even the Taliban or the Islamic State leaders. >>One does not have to be ignorant to believe in dogma.<< I'm not talking about people believing lies, because they are ignorant, but about lasting ignorance being created by the failure of acknowledging ones own ignorance. I agreed with Derek that acknowledging your lack of knowledge on a topic, or the falsehood of what you believed to be true, is essential to learning. >>I also know many intelligent, open minded Christians<< And you apparently think that a good thing? Then you agree that dogmatism is not a good thing? Then you agree that Christianity is not a good thing? I believe that you have deceived yourself into the assumption that everything good about someones character must come from the religion of his parents, while everything bad has nothing to do with it. You must begin to make the distinction between single individuals, who come from Christian families, and the religion itself. >>if you are a person who admires the fields of STEM, I implore you to release your prejudices<< Now that is just an idiotic thing to say. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are about sound reasoning and empiricism. If I "admire" them, I must necessarily be against their opposition: dogmatism, authoritarian thought. It is not "prejudice" to defend the open quest for knowledge. >>Every opinion you have, try to disprove it<< Please tell that to your Christian friends, not to someone, who has done just this and consequently shaken off faith.
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