I'm sure you've heard of this dude named Socrates who lived about 2,400 years ago.
He was sure that civilisation was going to hell in a hand-basket too, but the technology he hated was writing and books. He was convinced that if people were able to write, they wouldn't need to remember things, and if people sought knowledge from books, they'd have the data but not the understanding.
Somehow, civilisation has managed to muddle through for a couple of millennia, and it's a little ironic how linguists and philosophers are now wailing that non-text communication is the huge threat.
Socrates was right. People don't have to remember much anymore. Got a password? Well, it's saved so you don't have to remember it. Just don't come crying when you have to use something that doesn't have your password saved onto it.
That’s not what I meant. I was talking about the degradation of family values and the emergence and gradual acceptance of denegerate sexual practices as mentioned in the post.
So you identify with the decent, God-fearing people who thought civilisation would break down if it wasn't possible to execute people for stealing a chicken, if husbands weren't allowed to beat their wives almost to the point of killing them because they'd refused to have sex, if slavery was made illegal, and that sort of thing.
Sexually repressed idiots have been wailing about degeneracy leading to the end of civilisation for literally centuries (often while they got up to the most disgusting things imaginable in private). It hasn't happened and there's no rational reason to suppose it ever will happen.
Get your nose out of your Bronze Age Big Book of Myths, go study some history, and join the real world.
I’m an atheist and I despise religion. I’m not sure why you think I “identify” with religious nutjobs?
It’s been proven by scientific studies that people who engage in frequent casual sex are far more likely to suffer from mental health problems such as depression and even have shorter lifespans than those in committed marital relationships. Perhaps it’s you who needs to “study some history” or some basic psychology and statistics may suffice too?
You’ve heard of a thing called the internet, right?
Well it’s fairly commonplace in these times for scientific research papers and findings to be published on it.
There’s also a thing called a search engine such as google, where you can type in questions and keywords and be linked to things related to what you want to find. Try doing this.
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I'm sure you've heard of this dude named Socrates who lived about 2,400 years ago.
He was sure that civilisation was going to hell in a hand-basket too, but the technology he hated was writing and books. He was convinced that if people were able to write, they wouldn't need to remember things, and if people sought knowledge from books, they'd have the data but not the understanding.
Somehow, civilisation has managed to muddle through for a couple of millennia, and it's a little ironic how linguists and philosophers are now wailing that non-text communication is the huge threat.
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Socrates was right. People don't have to remember much anymore. Got a password? Well, it's saved so you don't have to remember it. Just don't come crying when you have to use something that doesn't have your password saved onto it.
That’s not what I meant. I was talking about the degradation of family values and the emergence and gradual acceptance of denegerate sexual practices as mentioned in the post.
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Some poeple don't agree with your values. Shocking I know!
Oh, I see.
So you identify with the decent, God-fearing people who thought civilisation would break down if it wasn't possible to execute people for stealing a chicken, if husbands weren't allowed to beat their wives almost to the point of killing them because they'd refused to have sex, if slavery was made illegal, and that sort of thing.
Sexually repressed idiots have been wailing about degeneracy leading to the end of civilisation for literally centuries (often while they got up to the most disgusting things imaginable in private). It hasn't happened and there's no rational reason to suppose it ever will happen.
Get your nose out of your Bronze Age Big Book of Myths, go study some history, and join the real world.
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I’m an atheist and I despise religion. I’m not sure why you think I “identify” with religious nutjobs?
It’s been proven by scientific studies that people who engage in frequent casual sex are far more likely to suffer from mental health problems such as depression and even have shorter lifespans than those in committed marital relationships. Perhaps it’s you who needs to “study some history” or some basic psychology and statistics may suffice too?
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Please tell us how to find these scientific studies.
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You’ve heard of a thing called the internet, right?
Well it’s fairly commonplace in these times for scientific research papers and findings to be published on it.
There’s also a thing called a search engine such as google, where you can type in questions and keywords and be linked to things related to what you want to find. Try doing this.