"I'm like real religious..." Why does religion always end up being a synonym for ignorance and stupidity.
Everyone always calls me edgy when I bring this up but it's because believing in an obvious fairy tale shows a massive issue with critical thinking and cognitive capability.
These people essentially still believe in Santa Claus and will die for that belief.
More commonly, will murder for that belief. Which is why this isn’t some edgelord topic, it’s something we need to deal with seriously as a society.
Because of absolutely moronic literal scripture interpretations. These imbeciles take the Bible as some kind of all-purpose knowledge encyclopedia, instead of a moral guide.
Just the way religion wants them. How else will they get money from them?
Concussion and head injury are a serious problem in Football today, so this tracks.
I'm pretty sure he was stupid and ignorant well before he ever suited up.
It's almost like "college football" doesn't involve any education
This is what happens when you push someone through the higher education complex on a sports scholarship...
Nah, he might just be dumb. Pretty sure I knew space was real before I was 10 lol
Exactly. An idiot like this should never be enrolled in a technical university.
Why are we considering the view points of 19-20 year olds who happen to play a sport?
When I was 19-20 and smart enough not to play a sport that scrambles your brain, I did not get a news article in the national press reporting that I did believe in space.
America worships the wrong people.
Worships? Dude... This article is basically making fun of him for being a dumbass. That's the entire story. Dumb fuck said dumb thing.
The mere fact that he is being talked about in this regard is annoying. Who the fuck cares about this person. What he believes is not a matter of national interest.
It's a stupid little fluff piece about somebody saying something so stupid it's funny. It's not like it's a massive story. The news has always been like this. Giant earthbreaking news and then stupid little fun fluff pieces.
Stop trying to make it some deep societal issue dude.
What an idiot, especially when he blames his ignorance on his religious and political stances.
Also dumb, saying this to a newspaper formerly conceived of, headquartered, and printed in the same county that launches the most stuff to space, Brevard county Florida, aka the Space Coast, where you can see stuff being launched to space almost daily, ans almost from any part of the county, including from my backyard pool.
We need way more pushback against people spouting this level of ignorance.
We need to just not give them a platform to spout it on.
Why the fuck is a college football player's beliefs about space newsworthy?
Then how does Tyler explain Space Jam? Check mate atheists!
Can someone buy him a telescope or something? Damn, you can actually see space and planets with your own eyes if you don't believe it....
You can see something, but that doesn't mean it's "space" and "planets".
Look, he's wrong, and the flat earth conspiracies are stupid. But, it's not like the flat earth conspiracies can be debunked that easily. They have explanations of what you can see in a telescope.
The real problem is that life requires that life requires a chain of trust. You trust your parents growing up, then your teachers, the media, political leaders, religious leaders, friends, co-workers, whatever. Their knowledge is mostly based on their trusting various people in their lives, and so-on. Sure, I've seen images of the earth from space, but I have to trust that that's what they really are, not elaborate fakes. I've never been to South America, but I have to trust that it exists. I have been to Europe, but I wasn't personally flying the plane, so I have to trust that it wasn't some elaborate plan to convince me that that continent exists.
A lot of trust in institutions has broken down lately. Sometimes that's a good thing. If you look at WWI propaganda posters, they seem ridiculous. It's good that governments can't so easily convince their people to jump into a war. On the other hand, this is the result. People stop trusting experts, and start trusting random dudes on the Internet who make a good video.
I mean if you can't believe that looking through a mirror and lens, and seeing the rings of Saturn can't convince you it's there... well we have words for that: delusional and psychotic. And people used to get hospitalized for it.
Gotta love the marriage between tramatic brain injuries and an under funded education system.
Gotta love the demands of an athletic program overriding academic integrity.
It's almost like student athletes shouldn't be monetized or training camps for professional teams or something.
Like they should have their own secondary league players can participate in and be paid to do so without simultaneously being a financial burden on 95% of schools.
the fact that this is a story is a better criticism of our media than anything anyone could make up
Just because you are highly skilled at something doesn’t make you intelligent or smart.
Doesn't this just tell us something about his university? They are obviously not doing that much in the way of teaching their football players.
Biggest arms I’ve ever seen on a database, that’s for sure.
Instead of making fun of him, NASA should fund a trip for him to go to the ISS and he should livestream the whole thing to instagram.
That's OK Tyler, Space believes in you
Does anyone else find it weird that he knows the word heliocentric?
Not at all. He learned all that, including terminology, from loony conspiracy theories. They like to use sciency words because it makes them sound more legitimate.
So did he buy a house that was like, 20 square feet?
“Yeah… I don’t believe in space. This is good.”
Just don't ask him who he thinks is behind the conspiracy😬
How did he pass any of his science courses?
"This is some big shot of the football team. He's not a C student. Grade again."
Source: TA'd at a prestigious west coast Uni with a good football team.
Texas Tech? Checks out.
I guess it’s a good thing his chosen profession doesn’t require intelligence.
Texas. It's what we said it was.
The Lone Brain Cell State
Man got pokemon and concussions mixed up and tried to catch them all
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