Mesa

@Mesa@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire shower thought already accepts the premise of Christianity. Otherwise there’s no conversation here. I already said that I’m not religious. I just know enough about the Christian faith and theology to entertain an argument under that premise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, I’d suggest that you look into the idea of God as Logos. Your idea of omnipotency has been criticized before, mathematically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I have to put the disclaimer that, although I am spiritual, I’m not religious. Anyway:

  then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way.

  Correct. I don’t think many people, Christian or otherwise, really disagree with you here. I chose to drive 20 minutes to eat ramen today. Was that the only way? Well, only way to what, exactly? To feed myself? No—there are plenty of closer options with which I could’ve sustained myself, but in my picking the ramen, I now have satisfied that craving which I’ve had for a few weeks. Even though I won’t still taste the ramen two days from now, I’ll still be satisfied that I had some today.

  In the case that you are trying to make a legitimate criticism of the story rather than the vapid “Christianity is stupid” posts that dominate this platform, I’d prompt you to be much more specific in what you mean by “way.” The only way to what? What specifically are you positing was God’s goal in allowing the crucifixion of Jesus?

  Personally, I take the Bible as almost entirely allegorical. So if you want my subjective take on this post, it’s about as good as asking why Superman has to be weak to kryptonite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, in all of those circumstances I just hold my breath. I’m certainly not wanting to breath in a bad smell through my mouth.

  But if the question is can I elect to breath through my mouth without pinching my nose, the answer is yes. I wouldn’t describe it as “shutting my nose,” though, so maybe we’re not talking about the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t block unless it’s excessive spam. Informational disadvantage, yadda yadda.

  I just exercise the same muscle I use to restrain myself from responding to bait on modern day Reddit, since my account there is still active but not posting (yes, even lurking is technically contribution, but there’s too much useful information there for me to justify completely cutting it out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with being proud of impersonal achievements. If one of your parents did something considered pretty great, it’s generally fine to be proud of it, even though you had no agency in being born to them.

  As with anything, though, it’s very possible to take it to the extreme. If an achievement or value becomes your entire personality and you begin to actively disparage others on the basis of not-being-that, as you said, that’s when I call it one of the bad “-isms.”

  I see nationalism as a range within that of patriotism, but starting at that extremist point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don’t have access to unfederated information and education outlets?

  The adults of next generation!

  Fuck the new world order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to make an ironic, exaggerated comment here, but irony doesn’t really work when it is 100% in line with what these people would actually say.

  Change is so slow because this country has managed to form and propogate such a thoroughly oppressive system, that to call it out is to only reinforce what the people have been taught since day one.

  These “freedom people” want their privilege so bad that they are willing to keep a monarch/oligarch in office who will perpetuate an oppressive system under the guise of ignorance.