There are much more worthwhile outcomes to wish for, and to achieve.
And yet another blow struck for kakistocracy.
Complain to the BPAS. That counsellor is unfit for their role.
He just wants a piece of the action and doesn't mind grovelling to get it.
does english have a gender neutral word for sisters/brothers?
In this context, "pigs" works fine.
Yeah, only one of those tactics works.
you’ve invented an implicit judge who rules what is and is not free speech
Imagine that. Living in the real world, you are constantly faced with ethical choices.
The good guys (the ones opposing slavery) won.
He'll hand over the Mexican government to the Zetas in exchange for some empty promises.
"But he never got us into any wars!"
The good vanilla comes from Madagascar.
It's not a family dinner if someone's not showing off their new stoma.
Next year, he'll have the turkey tortured to death after Stephen Miller sodomizes it.
But a lot of the time, what they're saying is "look at this photon, it transcends the law that everything has an electrical charge!" No, it doesn't transcend anything: your understanding of natural law is defective. Most of the UFO silliness falls into that bucket: they draw stupid conclusions based on their fanciful interpretation of a few perceived data points, then think that half-assed reasoning is enough to invalidate some real science.
It's a bad Victorian picture of their defective understanding of the medieval mystical world view.
Exactly. There's no definitive proof that winged monkeys won't fly out of my asshole five minutes from now, but I'm not making plans that assume they will.
That also means things I believe need to be falsifiable
It's possible to have real science without it being falsifiable in the Popperian sense. For example, archeology, paleontology, cosmology, medicine (unless your sense of ethics would even shame a Nazi).
Popper's goal was to discredit soft sciences like sociology because he was an extreme conservative who didn't like the findings that people like Horkheimer and Adorno were coming up with.
As for psychedelics, one part of the mind that's affected by psychedelics is the part that tells you what's important and meaningful. What you're being shown is the subjectivity and emptiness of that sense of awe.
That's just a weak reformulation of the "God of the gaps" fallacy.
There are no supernatural phenomena. There are things that really happen (which are natural) and hallucinations and delusions (which also arise naturally). That's all. Most of the woo I see is either the result of deliberate deception or stupidly implausible interpretation.