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Have you found the scientific method.
I think so, but let's test it just to be sure.
Certainty I can’t help you with, but statistical confidence let’s go.
Good observation - I'll include that in my notes and come back later with a finer-tuned hypothesis!
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If I ever win a lottery I'm legit going to pay someone to do this.
Man you don't need to win the lottery. I'll do it for a moderate fee.
Great! But I need to win the lottery in order to be able to pay your moderate fee.
Thats why this would never happen. The religious people do it for free or they even pay their organisation.
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Right, please tell me. Is this just a meme thing or do people actually knock on other people's doors to try to convert them to their religion?
And does this only happen, bizarrely, in the country with the highest number of gun-owning cowards?
It just seems such an odd combination
Jehovas witnesses knocking on doors is an absolutely known thing in Germany.
And the UK
And in Sweden.
Fun fact, their meeting places, "Kingdom hall"s are translated "Rikets Sal". On more than one occasion the letters in their signs have been rearranged over night to "skitarsle", roughly "poopybutt" :D
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Ever heard of Jehovah's witnesses? Or Mormons going on their mission? They aren't constant here, but they are definitely a thing in the Netherlands.
It does. It got to the point I explained the concept of trial by combat to them, and said if they really believed, they would fight me-me armed them not.
Never worked.
So I got a grab bag of cheap sex toys to keep by the door the moment I got my first place (was homeless when I turned 18) and 'would you like to talk about Jesus' became 'trick or treat'.
That worked.
Nope. I'm in Canada and it happens here too.
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Wouldnt happen. Scientists are too in love with the possibility they are wrong. Little room for evangelism
Only because they often are... which is what makes science so great. If everything was thought to be correct, what good would testing and new discovery be? The fact that scientists have historically been wrong drives scientists to prove other scientists wrong.
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"Is life on Venus coming to kill us?"
"Oh, no, these are microorganis-"
Shuts door
I’ve found the fastest ways to get religious folk that knock on my door to scurry in a hurry is:
- offer to listen as long as they like but only after they roast a bowl with you
- tell them to pay their fucking taxes
Now if science folk came knockin that would be great over a roasted bowl as well
What's a roasted bowl?
Smoke marijuana in a bong or pipe
The bowl being the part of the bong or pipe that holds the marijuana
https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration
"I [Carl Sagan] can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves," wrote the former Cornell University professor. "I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down."
Yes. Yes I would, come in, come in!
Yeah, uhh, come in, how'd you know I was a space nerd? Would you also like to scope out my house to rob it later? That's fine too, as long as you tell me about this cool space fact.
Instructions unclear, we now have door to door scientologists instead
Pretty sure I'm allowed to shoot those in this state.
I'd have so many questions. In a good way. They wouldn't have time to visit anyone else that day.
This idea made my pp hard
I would do that... but a bit of linux evangelism would slip in as well 😹
i wonder what has happened that enabled or hindered science to not become evangelical
What do you think it would it look like if it did?
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It's a two-edged sword: yes, you're probably doing great work, but on the other hand it might come off as annoying and give science a bad name.
I wouldn't mind some random knock on my door once a week or so by someone who wants to sit down and teach me some random scientific principle or spit out fast facts. One would have to watch out for false priests though. "did you know that vaccines are nanobots injected to support Bill Gates?" or something.
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