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The evil tyranny of science vs the proud rebellion of the Flat Earth Society?
I understand the desire for spirituality. I'm not some Reddit atheist that claims to be on a war against religion. In my view, religion is something that will likely gradually fade, and doesn't need to be directly fought against. What I don't like is when people use spirituality as a cudgel against science, and use it as the basis for arguing against a better world. Religion has been weaponized against queer folk like me, women, ethnic minorities, etc, and have lobbed attacks against science for centuries.
- Nice strawman equating nonduality with flat earth and other materialistic religions. Top critical thinking, very science and logic.
  If you are so sure of your stance, prove to me that matter exists outside consciousness. And good goddess, at least try to do better than pointing at an extracted brain will you? Nonduality has been around for thousands of years and it's yet to be debunked despite there being a very clear criteria for it.
  
  I answered your strawman with something equally dishonest. I'm not interested in getting into a debate with someone who genuinely believes matter does not exist outside of consciousness and fully believes in idealism, rejecting materialism. There's absolutely no evidence for ideas being primary over matter, and moreover all it does is open up the way for absurdities and fantasy to exist as equals to hard science. Materialism helps us genuinely understand and interpret the world, each successive year affirming its utility as science expands and we understand more and more. Idealism is a willing rejection of understanding to entertain the idea of fantasy.
  
  Can't do it huh? For all your talk of science, you sure are ready to take the belief in materialism for granted. Just another belief you demand others have, demand others have the same thoughts as you. The road towards fascism is short indeed.
  Unless you can provide scientific proof, I have no reason to subscribe your belief system and neither does anyone else. Go read https://www.bernardokastrup.com/ or https://bradleyhook.com/donald-hoffmans-concepts-simplified-understanding-reality-and-perception/, debunk them and you probably have grounds for your ideology. Else, it's just another house of cards built on a foundation of fiction.
  
  You reject materialism, then ask for a materialist (science is materialist, it is the measuring and understanding of mater) proof of materialism. Nonsense.
  
  Oh you were SO CLOSE to getting it.
  Why can't materialists prove it though? By all their own rules, they should.
  
  Nothing exists.
  
  Do you actually have thoughts in your head or do you just pick random internet retorts? I've never seen someone work themselves up so much while being so completely void of anything they're saying
  
  Nah, not going to waste my time entertaining justifications for belief in the unprovable. I already told you, I'm not here to debate like a Reddit atheist, I just wanted to address your absurd strawman in the beginning. Thoughts are products of the brain, not of some idealist "soul" or other analogue. Matter is objective, measurable, and knowable, through scientific analysis and repeated testing. It isn't subjective.
  
  Friend, with all respect, only one in this conversation is intent on pushing their perspective.
  
  Op made a question I answered. I however did not ask anyone's opinion.
  
  I think the barn is obscuring your view of the moon.

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