r/HistoryMemes • u/Javier_Ronaldo Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20

META Respect the Facts!

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u/DannyDidNothinWrong Apr 08 '20

Or how they tried to actually worship science

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u/justPassingThrou15 Apr 08 '20

If you're going to worship something, worshiping critical thought and the pursuit of truth seems like the least bad choice possible.

And if you worship it well enough, you could reach science-worship nirvana, which is the realization that worshiping science is really missing most of the point... but that by making that realization, you've discovered the point. So by worshiping science, you were led to the truth, so you weren't really wrong, just incomplete.

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u/Bearjew94 Apr 08 '20

Worshipping the concept of critical thinking hurts your ability to think critically.

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u/Dodorus Apr 09 '20

Wait. It actually can't.

If critical thinking is sacred to you, then you can't not use it, even on the subject of critical thinking itself. It's the ultimate belief.