On Omegle you can chat anonymously with another anonymous user, but you can also ask questions and watch two users discuss it, or stand on the other side and discuss a question with someone else. In between disturbingly sexual questions about the My Little Pony reboot and disturbingly sexual questions about everything else, you can stumble on an actual decent question.
Here’s one I asked in a bunch of sessions, just to see if I could get people to discuss it. Not just discuss it, but talk about it without getting into an insult match.
What are your beliefs on the origins of the universe? Be more specific than “God did it”/Big Bang one liners.
Omegle attracts a lot of people worldwide, so there’s an opportunity to reach people of varying belief systems beyond the nominal theist/skeptic dichotomy in America. Kind of like this:
Most of the time you will get goofball/stoner-inspired responses like this, if neither of the strangers disconnects right away:
Sometimes people confuse the question as concerning the origin of life on earth, not the cosmological angle:
I think Stranger 2 here tried to type out “Allahu Ackbar“, but embraced total failure in trying to type it phonetically:
I’m always suspicious of people like Stranger 2 here, who is just streaming theoretical physics-babble. How can someone come to these conclusions with an amount of certainty? The “spy” Stranger 1 refers to is the questioner (me):
I have no idea why Stranger 2 is so amazed at the “intelligence” of a 14 year old typed that out an incoherent non-sentence. Maybe there’s a film reference I’m not getting. They reference Mean Girls and Big Bang Theory*, so their intellectual reach might not be that extensive:
Speaking of not answering the question, Stranger 2 here answered immediately (probably cut and pasted) and coolly trolled Stranger 1 pretty hard. There’s nothing of value here other than seeing Stranger 1 jump on the bait.
I’m going to do another post further down the road with some hopefully more meaty responses. Given the nature of Omegle I don’t know how much better they’ll be.
* Nice try, but liking a show about smart people does not mean you like “smart” things nor does it make you smart.
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Lololol I am an atheist! (As if that answers the question.) Peace out.
Yeah, I don’t get that. I think the dumb atheists assume a monochromatic belief structure: i.e., atheism as a “package deal” of all kinds of beliefs that have no necessarily correlation with belief in no god (like secular humanism, macroevolutionary theory/Darwinism, modern American liberalism, hyper-scientism, etc). It’s a convenient way to avoid having to explain everything (think too hard) but it doesn’t make for great discussion because you know where everything is headed.