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by doubtingthomas
Tue May 07, 2024 5:51 am
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

You’re really stretching to make a very strange argument. I’m trying to figure out what’s behind it, and it smells very red pill/MGTOW/incel to be quite honest… It's not strange. Read this study https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211031320 I don't follow Red Pill/MGTOW/Incel cont...
by doubtingthomas
Tue May 07, 2024 2:40 am
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

A lot of things will change in the future. Is there something wrong with that? Maybe we should start a Caucasian zoo to mate secular caucasian humans and ensure they don’t die out? I don't think most Muslims are very liberal. Muslims are more likely to be Red Pill than feminist. So, do you now unde...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 11:41 pm
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Dating

Let's also consider the fact that LDS women were less selective in the past; many would settle for Mr. Not So Active. Liberal women were willing to marry conservative men, and conservative women were willing to marry liberal men. However, that's not the case anymore. These days, liberal women will n...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 10:34 pm
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Will LDS members in Utah be the majority again in the upcoming decades?

UT is somewhat similar to Montana; both are conservative states and have approximately the same percentage of Christians and the same percentage of religiously unaffiliated individuals, according to Pew. Both have a large majority of white residents. However, their fertility rates differ: 54.8 for M...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 7:16 pm
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

Why, because the religious people would see this and magically stop reproducing? Check this out. In 2021, there were 5,798 more children born in Utah than in Oregon. However, Oregon is more racially diverse than Utah and has about a million more people. So, how can this be? https://worldpopulationr...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 6:59 pm
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

You’re conflating a lot of variables. Again the largest one is wealth: In an article published in Nature, Myrskylä et al. pointed out that "unprecedented increases" in social and economic development in the 20th century had been accompanied by considerable declines in population growth rates and fe...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 6:17 pm
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Re: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD

I was focusing on the point. People reason in circles when they express deeply held beliefs, such as beliefs about God or the Bible; beliefs they have difficulty justifying or even comprehending objectively. That's BS, man. I wasn't engaging in circular reasoning. You seem to engage in confirmation...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 5:47 am
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

Consider the source of those statistics you cited. It's just a collection of static images from conservative think tank, with no references to any paper, author, or details on their statistical analysis. I trust their website about as much as I trust Interpreter Foundation's. Regardless, it is true...
by doubtingthomas
Mon May 06, 2024 3:24 am
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

This will drive the majority of demographic change in the future. We can fairly easily provide cheap internet access to these people, and empower them to become informed voters and not spiral into pseudoscience, propaganda, and misinformation traps. Maybe, but Trump may end up winning again, he has...
by doubtingthomas
Sun May 05, 2024 10:59 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
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Re: Here's why the decreasing fertility rate in the US is a concern

Basically, if you think we need to outbreed the religious, you’re probably going down a dark path. Not necessarily outbreeding the religious, but secular people need to have more kids so they won't get replaced by religious people in the future. According to an article I read, a few decades ago the...