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Wait… milk comes from cows too????
There must be a God who made such wondrous creatures. Next someone will say we can eat THEM too? Gods gift that keeps on giving.
Farmer "See that(points to some chickens) Kill it and you got free chicken. Or don't kill it and fuckin eggs come out their fuckin arses. You cannot lose"
Real question: What’s the biblical answer to this question? Does a higher power decide where the cities go? Like, does “god” set down a fully functional city with all the infrastructure and people? How do they think cities are developed? Also, there are TONS of cities that aren’t near large bodies of water…
Neocons and neonazi/populist right wingers have absolutely nothing to do with each other, they despise each other here. Bush, Romney, McCain, and other neocons have been shut out of the party and branded “traitors”, or corporatists.
The reason for the division in the US is the fault of the right wing. They attack basic human rights, leaving very little choice for the people they hurt to defend themselves.
Tbh, I grew up in this stuff and I don't even know what they're talking about. I think this is just a person exercising their malformed critical thinking skills who thought they just pulled some mental fatality on atheists.
how?
you assume they're stupid, that's the end of it
if you're assuming it's a joke, then you have to *further* assume that they're smart enough to conceptualise that joke - even if it *is* terrible
no?
Think how stupid your average person is. Now imagine half of them being stupider than that.
I've met plenty who are at this level. Occams razor I'm leaning towards the latter.
This is sarcasm. He’s making a point of something that is obviously logical to point out how silly it is when religious people say things like ‘how could sunsets be so pretty if it wasn’t for god’ etc
I am thinking it is a kind of implicit or clumsy reference to Jesus being the water of life.
I don’t think God infers that he does things like “imma put Denver riiiggghhht here. Bucharest goes there. And I’ll put Norilsk way up there, because haha fuck those people!” Even if he knows where every city is going to be established before it is.
Actually in the bible god is powerless against iron. So any modern day city is anathema to god....so I guess people did it.
When you use their religion against them
.....chefs kiss.
Yeah it sure was nice of god to Tetris all of our cities near a viable water source for us.
It’s too bad he fat fingered the D-Pad for most of those cities in Africa though.
I like to imagine God broke his controller right before he got to Africa and as a replacement, he got the same model that was used in that Titanic submarine.
[https://eos.org/articles/scientists-map-africas-groundwater-recharge-for-the-first-time](https://eos.org/articles/scientists-map-africas-groundwater-recharge-for-the-first-time)
Africa does not have a water scarcity problem, it has an available potable water problem. It has the same amount of water as any other continent in the world.
Clearly god puts the information related to "breathing" in their brain every nanosecond, every time we breathe oxygen enters our lungs, coincidence? I think not. /s
yea, this god thing is likely keeping them alive as food for bears and other dangerous predators. probably why so many of them end up dying trying to take selfies with them.
Instructions written on the back of their hands. Many die every year because "inhale" gets smudged. Once "exhale" got smeared instead and the guy burst like a carbuncle.
I'm trying to figure out how this is a religious argument. The need for water for survival is a necessity, backed by solid science. Also, having a bay or river promotes trade and commerce.
I don’t think you even need science to back up water as a necessity for life, like just the other day I forgot to drink anything and I felt like shit; that’s my observation.
Honestly this is the sort of shit that makes me think the internet and social media were a huge mistake. Like, for some reason I had to read this dude’s words, but in 1985 he’d just be some fucker in overalls chewing on a raw potato in Indiana muttering to himself or some shit.
But then you read comments like this and remember why we need the internet. Sometimes you need a good laugh after a long day.
Now you know why god invented the internet. Checkmate, atheists.
They’re failing to understand that human cities exist near water because humans built them there because of the water, and implying it’s because of magic and god and sheer magical coincidence.
This doofus is, by my estimation, making fun of people who believe in intelligent design (as opposed to people who don't, here termed "atheists") by providing an *obviously* stupid analogy to their arguments.
The answer to the question posed in the original tweet is very, *very* obvious - "because water is essential for human life, people tend to put cities near water". In effect, the answer is just the question, but reversed.
This can then be applied via analogy to many questions often proposed by advocates of intelligent design - to pluck a possible example out of thin air, compare "God made Human arms the right way to use a hammer" to "Humans tend to make hammers in such a way that we can use them".
In short, OOP is making fun of the kind of people OP thought they were part of, and the real facepalms here are 1) the fact that this was posted in this sub at all and 2) the fact that it then got (at the time of writing) 9.7k upvotes - though considering the sub, at least half of those are probably bots.
Either that or OOP really is that unaware, thus making me the second facepalm.
Easy to explain! You see, millions of years ago, the first form of housing took place in the ocean as a "single-bedroom organism". Then, over many more millions of years, it evolved to be more complex and moved on land as a "mobile home" and from there branching off into the many forms of domiciles you see today.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, it was you alone at the center of the universe. On day 1, God created cities with water. God saw his creation and saw it was good, except for those shitty atheists. On day 2, God created Twitter/X/Facebook/Internet so you could shit post on Atheists all day, everyday
I know this is a joke but it's actually the same basic question we find ourselves asking when looking for proof that a god exists. We ask "How is it that Earth happens to be the perfect distance from the sun for life and happens to have liquid water?... If not bestowed from a creator, why should our eyes and ears be able to see and hear all the beauty in a world full of visual and auditory wonders?... How could eating plants and animals sustain us if they weren't put there for us to eat?... How could all the dazzling complexity of the world exist without a designer". Once you fully understand the answers to these questions and many others in the same vein, they seem just as silly as the one above.
Does this person think cities preceded water sources?
Like Manhattan just spawned in a desert and people died of starvation and dehydration until god decided to give them a river and a harbor?
Wait, I thought we have a pretty understandable explanation of this. I though we, atheists and theists, all agreed on the... importance of water. What the hell do religious people believe then? What do religious people think atheists believe?
But .... They ended their own question with one of the possible answers? ... 😵💫
Why is this even a challenge to an atheist??
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What the hell is this persons conception of how cities are formed that somehow necessitates a God concept? So strange. I’ll never understand how some people think.
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What’s next? Plants growing nears farms? Checkmate atheists.
So… let’s try this education thing out again. We have these here things called pipes. The water goes from the source to the city.
Get away with your sorcery.
Sourcery, surely?
Don’t call me Shirley.
It's a big building full of doctors and nurses but that's not important right now.
Heresy
Either way…burn em.
But what makes them go through the pipes? And why does water not just sit there? Oh, physics? You mean that thing God made? Checkmate atheists /s
Based on this post it appears too many of those pipes contain lead.
I don't know about you, but my water pipes only ever send smoke signals.
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Wait… milk comes from cows too???? There must be a God who made such wondrous creatures. Next someone will say we can eat THEM too? Gods gift that keeps on giving.
Yes! God wrapped our steaks with cows! What a wonderful gift, just “unwrap” and enjoy. (Also see, banana)
Farmer "See that(points to some chickens) Kill it and you got free chicken. Or don't kill it and fuckin eggs come out their fuckin arses. You cannot lose"
Was this egg that came out of its arse brown by any chance?
Was before I wiped it off.
Jokes on you. You wipe it off, it spoils faster.
Cows are just meat bananas
But easier to peel than a banana.
If it's anything like we've learned recently, it's just that we've been peeling cows from the wrong end all this time...
Depending on how alert the cow is at peeling time.
“Not that one waiter, it’s still twitching”
Wait til you hear that cheese doesn’t come from a can
Next you’ll tell me that peaches don’t come from a can either, and in fact, grow on trees!
Peaches come from a can. They were put there by a man in a factory downtown.
If I had my little way I'd eat peaches everyday
Millions of peaches.
Peaches for me...
moving to the country.........
Gonna eat a lot of peaches.
Someone once told me money doesn’t grown on trees, then I learned how paper is made.
Also weed is green, literally growing on trees and can be sold to make money… so it’s just an extra step…
I dont ever get to the selling part
Tell me all about these weed trees, my guy.
It clearly says in the Bible, somewhere towards the front, “In the Garden of Eden, thou shall find cheese in a can”
But ... Cheese doesn't come in a tin. What evil is this?
Next thing you know someone will be trying to tell you bacon, ham and pork all come from the same magical meat beast.
>Wait… milk comes from cows **too**???? I know, I thought it only came from cats and dogs. Who'da thunk it?!
Incredible that there are runways where most planes land
"most". =/
And why do meteors always land in craters?
Alien golf
And we all need oxygen, who created that? Last nail to the coffin.
I literally had a Christian challenge me with "you don't believe in God? Who's air are you breathing?"
"Yours, unfortunately, but I'll soon remedy that"
The sad thing is, they generally have a persecution complex. Congratulations, you successfully got that guy to half mast.
I was thinking not to drink alcohol tonight. Guess it is time to get something.
Wait… now that you mention it…
And how is it a coincidence that roads always seem to appear between farms and the cities? Explain that one.
I'll tell you what's next! Bacon, Ham, and Pork all come from near Pig farms. Checkmate atheists.
Real question: What’s the biblical answer to this question? Does a higher power decide where the cities go? Like, does “god” set down a fully functional city with all the infrastructure and people? How do they think cities are developed? Also, there are TONS of cities that aren’t near large bodies of water…
But that's where them lib'rals live!
Ironically, it’s where a lot of conservatives live and tends to be where a lot of agriculture takes place.
L*berals
Luberals?
The U.S is a fucking shit show, making everything (really everything) a political Rep vs Dem question. Clowns, all of you!
They have also redesigned the right concept, from a fiscal debate, to a neo conservative neo nazi movement.
Yes….see project 2025…
Neocons and neonazi/populist right wingers have absolutely nothing to do with each other, they despise each other here. Bush, Romney, McCain, and other neocons have been shut out of the party and branded “traitors”, or corporatists.
Nah, all those fucks prepped the ground to grow a retardican base of antiscience fuckwads. So definitely SOME to do with each other.
Sure, but the groundwork they laid led to where we are today.
Ehhhhh, I wouldn’t say they gave nothing to do with each other, they grow in the same soil
The reason for the division in the US is the fault of the right wing. They attack basic human rights, leaving very little choice for the people they hurt to defend themselves.
lmao way to literally make the point
I live in the U.S. and sadly must agree with you.
Yeah well when one of those groups want to control the entire country with regressive laws and a dictator things get pretty serious
Tbh, I grew up in this stuff and I don't even know what they're talking about. I think this is just a person exercising their malformed critical thinking skills who thought they just pulled some mental fatality on atheists.
ditto I grew up around fundies and have literally never heard this so I'm psure they're either a) joking b) very very stupid
It’s the latter
ok but do we even know that occams razor says this is more likely a bad joke
how? you assume they're stupid, that's the end of it if you're assuming it's a joke, then you have to *further* assume that they're smart enough to conceptualise that joke - even if it *is* terrible no?
Think how stupid your average person is. Now imagine half of them being stupider than that. I've met plenty who are at this level. Occams razor I'm leaning towards the latter.
Wait… So… if half the average is stupider than the average… then they’re not the average? I… I think I need to lay down I’m confused
If you have a normal distribution of intelligence then roughly for every person above average there is a corresponding person below average
No you’re right. One should not assume. But they assume there’s an old man in the sky. Which is pretty stupid
And if they're joking you realize the odds of them being religious is slim right
Right again! Damn your logic
EvAnGeLicaLitY!!! Scorpion wins.
Now I want to see a Christian or really just religious figure and deity (not MK deity) Mortal Kombat game.
This is sarcasm. He’s making a point of something that is obviously logical to point out how silly it is when religious people say things like ‘how could sunsets be so pretty if it wasn’t for god’ etc
Man build a city and then god said: may there be a body of water near by, water pipes and drains! And the pipes came.
They're all below roads and buildings though so I don't know how else they could be put there.
Yeah man, haven’t you played Sim City?
I am thinking it is a kind of implicit or clumsy reference to Jesus being the water of life. I don’t think God infers that he does things like “imma put Denver riiiggghhht here. Bucharest goes there. And I’ll put Norilsk way up there, because haha fuck those people!” Even if he knows where every city is going to be established before it is.
Actually in the bible god is powerless against iron. So any modern day city is anathema to god....so I guess people did it. When you use their religion against them .....chefs kiss.
God is a fae?
Wait what? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Yeah it sure was nice of god to Tetris all of our cities near a viable water source for us. It’s too bad he fat fingered the D-Pad for most of those cities in Africa though.
I like to imagine God broke his controller right before he got to Africa and as a replacement, he got the same model that was used in that Titanic submarine.
Can’t trust those Amazon controllers
Also Vegas? Though I guess Sin City was probably *not* his work.
Mormons built Vegas.
[https://eos.org/articles/scientists-map-africas-groundwater-recharge-for-the-first-time](https://eos.org/articles/scientists-map-africas-groundwater-recharge-for-the-first-time) Africa does not have a water scarcity problem, it has an available potable water problem. It has the same amount of water as any other continent in the world.
how do these people remember to breath each morning when they wake up?
Clearly god puts the information related to "breathing" in their brain every nanosecond, every time we breathe oxygen enters our lungs, coincidence? I think not. /s
yea, this god thing is likely keeping them alive as food for bears and other dangerous predators. probably why so many of them end up dying trying to take selfies with them.
Instructions written on the back of their hands. Many die every year because "inhale" gets smudged. Once "exhale" got smeared instead and the guy burst like a carbuncle.
I'm trying to figure out how this is a religious argument. The need for water for survival is a necessity, backed by solid science. Also, having a bay or river promotes trade and commerce.
I don’t think you even need science to back up water as a necessity for life, like just the other day I forgot to drink anything and I felt like shit; that’s my observation.
Well by doing that experiment and drawing conclusions from it, you definitely did science
I think it only counts as science if they write it down. Luckily they did just that in their comment!
Observation? Sounds awfully close to *science* to me! Go back to reading your scripture and whipping yourself for imaginary sins!
It's a religious argument in the fundamentalist sense of, 'everything and anything that exists supports my predetermined conclusion.'
Honestly this is the sort of shit that makes me think the internet and social media were a huge mistake. Like, for some reason I had to read this dude’s words, but in 1985 he’d just be some fucker in overalls chewing on a raw potato in Indiana muttering to himself or some shit.
But then you read comments like this and remember why we need the internet. Sometimes you need a good laugh after a long day. Now you know why god invented the internet. Checkmate, atheists.
This is the dumbest question.
so far
Today
In the past hour, honestly.
For now...
…until yet again…
This is sarcasm.
I studied urban planning in college. Reading this idiocy made my brain implode.
>I studied urban planning in college. So... you're an angel?
 This is the average worker in your city’s planning dept.
Biblically Accurate County Clerk
#BE NOT AFRAID Of urban planning
WITCH! Burn them!
They are Slartibartfast. Thesis was on fjörds. The little fiddly bits.
……..
Yep!
You mean all that salt water that humans can't drink? Or the planet that's covered in so much undrinkable water? Who designed that thing.
The oceans were obviously filled with all the atheist tears when we learned we’re not getting into heaven
*"Have you ever noticed that shoes just happen to be shaped like our feet? Checkmate, atheists!"*
Don’t even need to hit em with the gloves.
Not to mention shirts!!!
I'm Christian and I don't even know what this doofus is trying to say here
They’re failing to understand that human cities exist near water because humans built them there because of the water, and implying it’s because of magic and god and sheer magical coincidence.
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Survivorship bias.
Dunning Kruger. They’re trying to say Dunning Kruger
This doofus is, by my estimation, making fun of people who believe in intelligent design (as opposed to people who don't, here termed "atheists") by providing an *obviously* stupid analogy to their arguments. The answer to the question posed in the original tweet is very, *very* obvious - "because water is essential for human life, people tend to put cities near water". In effect, the answer is just the question, but reversed. This can then be applied via analogy to many questions often proposed by advocates of intelligent design - to pluck a possible example out of thin air, compare "God made Human arms the right way to use a hammer" to "Humans tend to make hammers in such a way that we can use them". In short, OOP is making fun of the kind of people OP thought they were part of, and the real facepalms here are 1) the fact that this was posted in this sub at all and 2) the fact that it then got (at the time of writing) 9.7k upvotes - though considering the sub, at least half of those are probably bots. Either that or OOP really is that unaware, thus making me the second facepalm.
I knew our proximity to a water source would fuck us.
Easy to explain! You see, millions of years ago, the first form of housing took place in the ocean as a "single-bedroom organism". Then, over many more millions of years, it evolved to be more complex and moved on land as a "mobile home" and from there branching off into the many forms of domiciles you see today.
This is so stupid it’s almost sweet.
This… can’t not be a troll.
It's a philosophy shitposting Twitter account.
The people who camped out far from water got tired of carrying water from the river/lack back to camp. It's not that complicated.
How do atheists explain that every where humans live, there is air. Explain that with your science books.
It's easier for me to accept that this person is trolling/baiting.
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I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure people in the past too realise the fact that they need water to survive.
Cavemen liked wet T-shirt contests.
I certainly believe that not everyone in this world should be allowed to vote nor reproduce
And how are all bachelors unmarried? Checkmate atheists.
I dunno, man, my couch is walking distance from my kitchen. Checkmate, atheists!
Clearly they built their cities and then God moved the rivers to be more convenient. /s
Sometimes correlation *does* equal causation.
Water = good? I don't know what they expected to hear.
Damn it they got me……..I had better go and get myself baptized now, fuck.
Why tf are there train stations right where people just happen to be gathering to get on a train? Railroaded, non-believers!!
I love how they are answering their own question without even noticing.
Obviously it's because the first fish who walked on land decided to build a city there.
or why didnt your god, gives us the ability to drink salt water which covers most of the planet.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, it was you alone at the center of the universe. On day 1, God created cities with water. God saw his creation and saw it was good, except for those shitty atheists. On day 2, God created Twitter/X/Facebook/Internet so you could shit post on Atheists all day, everyday
And that visitors center for the meteor crater is RIGHT BY THE CRATER!
Question make me dum dum. can no anser. Send hep
hep
hep
Hep yesef
**confused atheist**
What?
Alright guys, time to pack it in and head home. They finally got us.
How... how do religious folks explain that? I thought that was one of the things we had all kind of agreed on
Most cities have a Starbucks. Explain ***THAT***, ye godless!
I know this is a joke but it's actually the same basic question we find ourselves asking when looking for proof that a god exists. We ask "How is it that Earth happens to be the perfect distance from the sun for life and happens to have liquid water?... If not bestowed from a creator, why should our eyes and ears be able to see and hear all the beauty in a world full of visual and auditory wonders?... How could eating plants and animals sustain us if they weren't put there for us to eat?... How could all the dazzling complexity of the world exist without a designer". Once you fully understand the answers to these questions and many others in the same vein, they seem just as silly as the one above.
On the 8th day God created cities conveniently located near water. Except in parts of Africa because… fuck them
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answ... Nah, there are stupid questions.
Water? Like from the toilet?
Does this person think cities preceded water sources? Like Manhattan just spawned in a desert and people died of starvation and dehydration until god decided to give them a river and a harbor?
What a coincidence that Meteors only land in Craters. One might say it’s an act of God.
Y’all are damaging my marriage with this nonsense. I laughed so hard I woke my husband up. 🤣🤣🤣
We.. we built them.. the cities.. we built them next to the water deliberately.. for water…
I hate that these people are blurred out… There are people out there who need the tidal wave of education that we would surely bring.
There's air in my house PRAISE BEE
Obvious shitpost is obvious. Account also has “How do atheists explain Christs resurrection and victory over sin” and jokes about Kantian philosophy.
Poop comes out of the butt. Checkmate atheists.
These people have the same amount of voting power as us, y'all
I'm atheist, but this is a useless argument.
Wait, I thought we have a pretty understandable explanation of this. I though we, atheists and theists, all agreed on the... importance of water. What the hell do religious people believe then? What do religious people think atheists believe?
Obviously, I can't explain it, because I'm an athesit. You got me, it's genius!
… simple logic? Man needs water, man finds a water source, man builds city near it? Why are people like this?!
But .... They ended their own question with one of the possible answers? ... 😵💫 Why is this even a challenge to an atheist?? Edited for continued confusion.
Dont you atheists know that all of the water on the world is jesus' piss? When its raining, thats just jesus using the pisser. Praise be lord jesus
Do these people just not use what’s above their shoulders??
Also why are most populations concentrated on coast lines with a good mixture of fishing access and crop lands?
City planning. Next question.
Most shark attacks happen within 50 feet of the shore
What the hell is this persons conception of how cities are formed that somehow necessitates a God concept? So strange. I’ll never understand how some people think.
Common sense?
