haha that incident with dawkins leaving stupid comments on the lady's blog post is pretty stupid. i didn't know he was dumb like that, or like the childish tweets. i haven't really thought about him since the god delusion came out when i was finishing high school and a lot of my friends were saying he was so cool and we were all reading the selfish gene.

dawkins: owned

Step right up, folks. Step right up.

the one i think a pretty basic issue you're missing is context.

these people whose beliefs you find so ridiculous live their lives in a totally different context from you. maybe the difficulty you are having is - and i'm assuming you're a pretty westernized person here - but when you hear about muslims doing stuff or weird stuff people might believe in africa or asia, or the past! you might be thinking well that makes sense they all wear funny clothes and live in magic land so why wouldn't they think a bunch of weird stuff?

well even people who live next door to you live their lives in totally different contexts, too. there are probably more areas of overlap between someone from your own country in your own demographic but that doesn't mean they see the world like you do or have had even 5% of the same experiences you've had, and they've come to different conclusions. it isn't really your place to go around saying oh that's ridiculous you're crazy - cos all you're really saying at that point is 'I cannot comprehend how you don't see things like me, so there is something wrong with you!' which doesn't really advance anything.

so you can either engage with people in these areas you find so baffling and try to better understand them (south park and wikipedia page doesn't get you very far), and see if you can satisfy your problem that way - by comprimise, or acceptance, or understanding or whatever the appropriate resolution may be, or you can just accept that these people live their lives in different contexts than you do, let them be and get on with it. OR you can make epic tweets about how fucking dumb they are but i don't recommend that option.

Yeah, this should go without saying, but South Park should not be one of your primary sources of information for anything.

Because that story actually makes more sense. They never mention humans or anything and there's no planet Earth. So somewhere in a galaxy far far away a long time ago it could have actually taken place. Which is why I say that it's less ridiculous to believe then Scientology, which claims outrageous things have taken place right here on Earth and directly influenced humanity as a whole.

Your explanation of star wars's plausibility actually stabs at the main point of why it is basically impossible to rationally consider the setting Star-Wars takes place in as even remotely plausible. You said yourself that there are no humans and no earth, and this means you have two primary concerns to address at the plausibility of the galaxy far far away this epic saga could occur in our actual universe.

1. If there is no earth, then is it entirely coincidental that the high majority of sentient lifeforms speak the English language? Did they form the English language in exactly the same way as earth but somehow entirely separate from any and all earth influence? (much in the same way many of the people from that galaxy evolved to become genetically identical to humans on earth despite having presumably 0 contact or influence with that planet whatsoever)

2. If earth is so far away that contact with any of it's lifeforms is statistically impossible, why is the fastest ship in that entire galaxy named after an avian species found exclusively on earth? A species of the avian family mind you, that could only be seen as astonishingly slow when compared to just about any vessel capable of hyper-speed.

so you didn't even read my post and would rather talk about star wars huh. that's what this was all about from the start wasn't it. how about them prequels. jar jar binks more like jar jar rinks. anakin more like smanakin.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Human

this whole thread is about star wars, right?

jamies posters regret - I will not make strikeout posts

really awful I will acknowledge it, and I doubt I understand people either but some of you make me really uncomfortable and yes I know whos joking sheesh I just wanted to make sure my 6000th post was my best ever.

south park is poisonous as shit

To be fair, he never said that it was.

Well, he did say that first he saw the episode and then he confirmed it on wikipedia... so... he kind of did. And I do not share Dada and Vellfire's opinion on the show, by the way. Just don't go basing your ideals around the show, that's really not what it's for.

south park is poisonous as shit

but don't you see they oppress everyone equally

^{except white people}

but don't you see they oppress everyone equally

^{except white people}

oh no they oppress white people.

just the ones that are gay or trans or women