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Crosses are boring. Let's talk about the Yin Yang instead. It's a symbol that illustrates the oneness of opposing forces in the universe, which is the whole point of Taoism. George Lucas even used it when he copied Taoism to make the Jedi religion, and said the force has a light side and a dark side. However, Lucas changed the myth and said the light side is natural and good, while the dark side is unnatural and bad. This is just my opinion, but I think he was influenced by christianity into making this change. Interestingly, this idea of the dark side being bad seems to be a postchristian invention, as in Judaism the Devil is actually one of Elohim's employees. He's the literal devil's advocate, whose job is to question the lord. So Judaism actually has more in common with Taoism than with Christianity on the light/dark side of things. The Lucifer myth, of a divine being turned evil by abandoning their purpose, is very interesting. I get kind of a Greek vibe from it, you know, like Kronos? Prometheus? The Greeks believed there was a natural order to the world, the Fates, and that humans and gods alike could choose to defy fate, though they would inevitably be punished. That's why Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the hill, he tried to lock up Thanatos and cheat death. So the Kronos myth, the Prometheus myth, and the Sisyphus myth are actually all the same story. Guy gets too big for his britches, tries to cheat fate, and is punished. It's the same myth told three times over within the same culture. I think Roman adoption of Christianity introduced Greek elements into Christianity and that's why we have the Lucifer myth, which is the same myth again as those three. But interestingly, Judaism does have the same myth in a pre-roman context, because Cain, of course! So the traitor myth that was introduced to Christianity by the Romans from Greece was actually part of the Hebrew religion all along, just in a less prominent position. And I'm certain there are other traitor myths in just about every culture in the world. For example, aboriginal australians tell the myth of Willie Wagtail, who was turned into a bird for gossiping too much, and the story fits the same structure if I recall correctly. The traitor myth is universal to human culture.

Nobody in history has ever been self sufficient for eggs. You need a chicken for that.

The argument from you. The argument constructed specifically by you. Your argument.

It says half of the Dutch don't wash their hands with soap and water, but I wanna know how many of the Dutch don't wash their hands. Those are two different statistics.

It's all The Simpson's fault. They shouldn't have given people of colour human skin tones. Apu should be yellow.

You're underestimating the similarity of religions and overestimating the similarity of scientific paradigms

Your dad has good taste in Trek, 7/9 and the doctor are the only good parts of that show and Janeway is racist to both of them.

Acoochiemoya.

Yeah no shit. You think if everyone's mind was wiped we'd still call a quark a quark? Nah, we'd have a different name for it. Maybe the political tensions in psychology wouldn't be between the psychoanalysts and the behaviourists, but between the diagnosticists and the freewillists. Maybe we'd skip the plum pudding model and decide rotating reference frames should be the default and centripedal force is an imaginary force that only exists when you use a silly linear reference frame. A LOT of science is subjective and culturally determined, mate. We're all just making this shit up as we go along. Theories persist because they're easy to arrive at and understand. Different interpretations of the same results appear all the time, like the many worlds interpretation saying superpositions can't actually collapse. That shit is subjective AF, there's no way of determining a "right" interpretation of quantum theory, at least not that we know of. We assume the universe's spacetime is flat because we haven't found a curve yet and we think we've looked really hard, but we don't know that. There are cultural contexts where proposing the existence of dark matter just because our math on the gravitational pull of galaxies turns out funky is a laughable idea.