Mr_Fish
@Mr_Fish@lemmy.world
- Submitted 7 hours ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Throw the baby out with the bathwater 21 hours ago:
Religious people (especially monotheistic religions, not sure about pantheistic ones like Hinduism) have more reason to study science than non religious people. Everyone can get practical value from studying the world, but religious people also study science to learn more about God.
- Comment on A tale of two social platforms 3 days ago:
one of the main reasons is greed
It almost always is
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 1 week ago:
Plus most of the rest of the Bible. I highly doubt that the political cult focused around a billionaire would approve of Amos, the book of the Bible all about God being pissed at Isreal for treating poor people badly.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 1 week ago:
A. It kinda depends who you ask. Some Christians are cessationists, meaning they believe the gifts of the spirit stopped happening after the apostles in the new testament. Those Christians will universally say no new scripture can be added. On the other hand, Catholics believe in papal infallibility, which means that in certain conditions (I’m not sure what they are, I’m not a catholic), the pope can make infallible doctrine, which is almost as highly valued as scriptural doctrine.
B. The list of books in the Bible has technically changed since the original canonization in the 4th century, but that was only removals like the apocrypha as far as I know. To add a new book, especially one written so long after the new testament was written, is basically impossible. It has been tried by the Mormons and arguably by Islam (although I don’t think they see the new testament letters as scripture so it’s another change on top of adding), but both of those changed so much that they’re no longer Christian.
I technically won’t say God can’t reveal more to humanity, enough to make another book of the Bible, but we already have the Bible, with no new additions for nearly 2000 years. If God was going to inspire more scripture, he probably would have done it by now.
- Comment on Makes perfect sense 2 weeks ago:
It’s like how in the Shrek universe, dragons and donkeys are the same species.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 weeks ago:
Not getting blastoise out for that job?
- Comment on More information will be revealed at a later date 2 weeks ago:
And snakes
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 3 weeks ago:
Playing devil’s advocate here, a lot of the refuse to vote crowd see the democrats as also unacceptably evil, and in almost any other context I would agree with them. A lot of democrats are failing to push back against Trump and his bullshit, either out of cowardice or acceptance. Not to mention they’re encouraging the whole Isreal situation.
The immediate problem is that the US has roughly the worst voting system. Gerrymandered to shit, FPTP but even worse because you’re not voting directly. The solution (at least for now) is to change the voting system to something that allows third parties without the spoiler effect. Unfortunately there isn’t an easy path to reach that as far as I can see, because both democrats and republicans would be long gone if not for FPTP.
- Comment on Beans n Corn 3 weeks ago:
Fritz Haber has entered the chat
- Comment on A secret cord 3 weeks ago:
And here is an even more cursed version
- Comment on Both the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy end with the fire roasted Anakin. 3 weeks ago:
Let the man cook
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
Solution: more blankets. Where I grew up we had regular frosts all through winter, but I never really went with anything more than 18. 2-3 blankets and a thick duvet does a lot for keeping you warm.
- Comment on "Party in the USA" and "Pink Pony Club" are opposite views on America: "Yay, the US is really all the same!" vs. "Yay, there are real cultural differences within the US!" 4 weeks ago:
There are definitely cultural differences, but for its size, the US is really homogeneous. As an example, Tom Scott’s video on “jingle bells, batman smells” shows way more regional variation in the UK compared to the US, despite being smaller than some states.
- Comment on I like kiwi 4 weeks ago:
Kiwi is also the nationality
- Comment on It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down 4 weeks ago:
I get that, but this wasn’t really a “look at the opportunities I’ve missed”, it was more of “huh, my life could have been completely different by now”. I like my job, I like my social life, and I have an amazing fiance that I’m marrying in less than 2 months. I don’t know what would be on my other paths, but I’m glad I chose this one.
There are some I’m glad i didn’t take. I started a degree in computer science in 2020, and I had plans to focus on machine learning research. If I hadn’t dropped it at the end of that year, I’d likely have finished my degree right at the start of the chat gpt shitshow.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny. 4 weeks ago:
Go ahead. Also feel free to add “automated incompetence” to the list as well
- Comment on There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny. 4 weeks ago:
“Artificial ineptitude”
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 5 weeks ago:
That’s like how in dnd lore the tarrasque, basically the biggest, scariest monster, is always depicted with big spikes on its back. Animals evolve spikes like that to ward off predators. That means something at least used to hunt tarrasques
- Comment on Power word: STUN! 5 weeks ago:
SCOTT STERLING IS BACK
- Comment on Unfurled, you say? 5 weeks ago:
Does your dick hang low
Does it wobble to and fro
Can you tie it in a knot
Can you tie it in a bow
- Comment on Take the plea deal 1 month ago:
It’s also in large part Trump’s fault that any attention is on the files. He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them. So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.
I don’t like that line of logic, but it works out
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 month ago:
There’s probably less editorializing than you’d think. At least less that was successful in being hidden. There are verses that we know we’re added in later that seem like they fit in perfectly. Example: “for yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, now and forever” at the end of the Lord’s prayer. That verse feels right at home there, but based on early copies and differences between copies as Christianity spread, we know that wasn’t original.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 month ago:
He would and did quote the old testament. The prophets books were written at least a few hundred years before he lived, and those were the latest of the old testament to be written.
The new testament was written about 100 years after he lived, and canonized a few hundred years later.
- Comment on Thanks for letting everyone know so you could embarrass me 1 month ago:
Porn Revere
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 month ago:
He’s low on the list for sure
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 1 month ago:
Given Americans, it wouldn’t surprise me
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 1 month ago:
Using Field’s disease there is a huge false equivalence, for two main reasons.
A: you can’t just choose not to have Field’s, but a billionaire is capable of donating their wealth to charity or something, and no longer being a billionaire.
B: the existence of people with Field’s has little to no impact on the average person outside that group, but the existence of billionaires massively changes
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 2 months ago:
“Dost thou desire to gaze upon mine phallus?”