A very good way
To avoid witnessing a conflagration, is to not pour fuel on the ground and juggle lit molotov cocktails.
If you write a post that espouses a political, moral, or theological position, and are not willing or able to defend that position, or youre going to get butthurt when others argue that position in comments, you really should stick to posting about cats, cooking, and weather. Dont mention global warming either.
I had the global warming argument at thanksgiving too. A 30 y/o “child” of my hosts. Still living at home. Still going to college (parents paying), taking meteorology and physics. He learned it in college, so it must be true.
Yeah, you old fool. Experience means nothing in the face of a liberal education.
Former girlfriend was a Women’s Studies major. Draw your own conclusions about discussions.
Hey, I was young and stupid.
When I went to college 30+ years ago, my professors were telling me that at current consumption rates, the world would run out of oil in 20 years. They believed it and thought I should believe it too. But as a 20-something healthy male, I had other fish to fry.
That doesn’t mean they are wrong about everything. But it proves they aren’t right about everything either.
Skepticism is step two to wisdom. (Theology majors can tell me step one).
It flat out amazes how many people blieve the world is flat. Just can’t argue them out of the position.
You would almost think it was a quasi religion.
My weather and climate professor at IUPUI many moons ago scoffed at global warmerongering, which even at the time was quite refreshing.
I’m sure whoever they have teaching it now has been properly indoctrinated. (We used to have a pretty conservative History department, too, but the rot was starting to set in during my time there. I graduated just in time.)
(We even had an African-American Studies director, one of the History faculty, who was pretty damn cool. I did some graduate work with him and he kept politics out of it. One of my favorite profs, and he would have been on my thesis committee if I’d ever gotten around to writing it.)
There’s a back-story here. Some day I’d like to know what it is.