glorkon
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- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
Still sounds really great.
I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
The onions still do the heavy lifting, I guess, and “a few bottles of malt vinegar” sounds a little excessive.
I personally prefer pure caramelized onions without any other ingredients except a bit of salt, to be honest. Won’t keep as long in the fridge but is the most versatile.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
Onion chutney. And it IS divine. Add it to burgers or steak and you will regret having wasted so many years without it.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 week ago:
Alright, you hypocrites who downvote me without having the balls to respond:
Where do you draw the line? Just tell me, I wanna know.
I’m fucking German, should I joke about buying Anne Frank a drum set? Where’s off limits? Instead of cowardly downvoting, have the fucking balls to engage in a discussion. Pathetic.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 week ago:
- It’s a rather lame joke. The premise has been used a thousand times already.
- It’s at the expense of someone’s disability. Ask yourself how often Peter Dinklage has seen this joke in his life.
You can joke about everything, but at least make a fucking effort.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 week ago:
You can make jokes about everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and sensitive the subject, you better make sure it’s a fucking good joke.
People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same lame punch line - the one along the line of this post.
- Comment on I'd buy it. 1 week ago:
Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it.
Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that’s still okay with way too many people…
- Comment on Corn or something idk 2 weeks ago:
Of course Christians are absolutely fine with people being gay.
After all, they’re the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.
- Comment on Is this real life? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, shots fired.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I have it on CD. They had it on vinyl, too, but I refused to buy the record because it was scratched.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackeluber und der bitte schön ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. “Nein”, sprecht der Herren, “Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen”.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 4 weeks ago:
It’s purely emotional, irrational thinking, solely serves the purpose of giving a weak mind an easy way to feel better about bad things that happen.
My mind doesn’t work that way, I can’t auto suggest myself out of logic - and to me, that kind of thinking is what is fundamentally wrong about this world. It makes people susceptible to all kinds of intellectual dishonesty.
If you can lie yourself into believing obvious bullshit just because it’s comfortable, you will also be easily influenced by liars, charlatans and demagogues.
I highly doubt that people like Trump would be possible In a purely atheist society with people who are used to scientific scepticism.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. “This violent tornado missed my home so close! Oh thank you, god!”
Noone ever asks why their god created the tornado in the first place. Not even the neighbor whose house has been obliterated. He’s probably thanking god for being alive. It’s bizarre.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
You have to pay for tap water, but not when you’re on welfare. The state will cover it.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
Well, I’m not quite sure which requirements there are for immigration to Germany, and which conditions there are on getting welfare once you got here. They obviously would like to avoid having people immigrating into the welfare system.
And of course, Germany isn’t the land where milk and honey flow either, many people struggle too. I had a bit of luck for sure. But I very much feel Germany is a much more forgiving place to live. That’s why I would never move to the US under any circumstances, even for a tripled paycheck.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
Danke dir. Ich hatte natürlich sehr viel Glück, dass sie im Jahr 2008 gerade Geld im Topf für sowas hatten - und dass ich einiges an IT-Vorkenntnissen hatte. Sonst wäre der Jobcentertyp nicht auf die Idee gekommen, mir das zu bewilligen. Aber ich bin dem heute noch extremst dankbar für die Chance.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
On welfare they pay your rent. Tap water in Germany is perfectly drinkable, so - free water. Food? Bahnhofsmission. Also, the free money you get on welfare allows you to get food.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
In Germany, those are viewed as basic human rights. So, yes. Ask yourself how humane the American system is if it doesn’t.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 5 weeks ago:
I’m German.
I used to be poor as fuck, didn’t have a job, had lots of medical issues due to being very overweight, was depressed and dysfunctional, also a stoner on top of all that. That was in 2009.
But the state paid my rent and gave me some money so I could at least live. And then, a guy at the “Jobcenter” said hey, wanna have a two-year state sponsored job training? It’s 18k Euros, but the German state will pay for it. All you gotta do is see a doctor every month and have him certify to us that you’re off drugs.
I said fuck yeah, let’s do it. Last chance to get my life back on track.
Fast forward to today… I’m married, have a well paid job as a software architect, earned enough money I could live independently for over two years, have a handsome ETF portfolio.
In America, I would have been fucked. If you’re poor in Germany, there’s always a way out if you just get your shit together.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
You’re getting really hung up on this idea of “god” when that’s not what I’m really talking about lol
This whole thread was about the likelihood of God’s existence…
Maybe some people find the big bang theory far-fetched
Perhaps, but contrary to the god hypothesis there is a lot of science that makes the big bang theory very plausible.
just trying to keep your mind open
Forgive me, but I’m a person who follows science and the scientific method, so it seems ironic that YOU are trying to keep MY mind open. I will always change my mind according to new evidence, just as science does, being a self-correcting system.
There’s a HUGE difference between saying “this is real because we can’t prove it isn’t,” and “there’s a small possibility this is real, but we can’t prove it.”
True, but some things have an infinitesimal likelihood. And to me, the likelihood of God’s existence is, while not equal to zero, so extremely close to zero that it makes no practical difference.
Like, saying something DOESN’T exist simply because you HAVEN’T seen proof of it
I never said god doesn’t exist. I actually stated several times now that you cannot disprove the existence of anything.
you don’t believe in a god because you haven’t seen evidence of it. I’m just trying to point out the argumentum ad ignorantiam in that.
That’s not an argumentum ad ignorantiam. Wikipedia:
“The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.”
I never asserted that the proposition of god is false (as mentioned several times above). I refuse to make any definitive assertions concerning the existence of god (neither true nor false).
I only asserted that the probability of god’s existence is infinitesimally small.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
It’s fun to think about a lot of things for sure. But everything you just said is well summed up in your sentence “I just think there’s SO much we haven’t seen and so much we don’t know”.
See, just because we don’t know everything, saying that god probably hides somewhere in what we don’t know yet, that’s called “The God of the gaps”. It’s what Christians have done over the centuries.
They claimed that God created the sun and earth and the solar system, and that earth is the center of it all. Then Kopernikus came along. They claimed that god created the animal kingdom and that all species are unchanged since creation. Then Darwin came along. Etcetera, etcetera. Science has kept disproving religious claims, and it still continues to do so. The gap is becoming smaller and smaller for God to hide in. Christians always point to what science doesn’t know yet (and it happily admits it doesn’t know) and say, see, that’s why God is still possible. It’s why I used the word “desperate” earlier in our debate.
In general, believing in something because one doesn’t know better is called an argumentum ad ignorantiam - and that’s a logical fallacy. There is no good reason to come up with a far fetched claim, just because you don’t have evidence to the contrary.
Have you ever heard of Russell’s Teapot? It’s a thought experiment that claims that there’s a teapot orbiting the sun somewhere in between Jupiter and Mars. Just because it cannot be discounted, does that make it likely to exist? Is it sensible to assume it does exist? No.
I think about God the same way. Everything indicates that mankind invented God. After all, we know over 3000 different deities. It just doesn’t make any sense to assume he’s real.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
By the way, I am well aware of the well known saying you keep alluding to, while using other words - if we fill a bucket with ocean water, doesn’t mean whales don’t exist just because there isn’t one in the bucket. Or something along that line.
In the entire human history, and in all of the observable universe, no matter where we looked, no evidence for a god could be found - I never claimed that proved the non-existence of a god.
I even said that you cannot logically disprove the existence of anything. But the likelihood becomes very, very small indeed, and the claim becomes extremely far fetched. So far fetched that the amount of people still willing to believe in a god is way out of proportion. To me this shows how gullible people are, and how easy it is to fool them.
But I submit to you that it makes the existence of a god unlikely. Why? Because everything we can observe has also allegedly been created by God. And you have to admit, although it’s a very tiny part of the whole universe, it’s still a huge amount of things. Earth, animals, plants, evolution, chemistry, particle physics, elements, galaxies, everything. Nothing in the entire human body of knowledge shows even the slightest sign of having been created by a god or points to a creation.
And science does postulate that the laws of physics are the same in the entire universe, so there’s no good reason to believe God could be hiding somewhere else. The “god of the gaps” is nothing but an argumentum ad ignorantiam.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
The rule in the German language is quite simple, if it’s a noun, use a capital letter. That’s all there is to it.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
Well, again, it doesn’t matter that we’re only able to observe a tiny fraction of the universe. The simple fact that billions of people haven’t been able to come up with proper evidence in over two millenia alone is a very good reason to remain extremely sceptic of any claims to the opposite.
I frankly do not understand your argument “we cannot disprove it, therefore it is possible”. Well yeah, you can never disprove the existence of anything.
What I was saying is that so far, noone has been able to prove it. Many people have tried over a long period of time. Therefore it is highly unlikely to be true, and we should refuse to believe in it until there is evidence - at which point I would be happy to change my position.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
Will we ever find God? I don’t know, but we’re sure as shit nowhere near understanding anything enough to say a god DIDN’T do it.
By that logic, we can also not be sure that it wasn’t Ralph the Wonderllama who lives on Proxima Centauri and sings songs by Simply Red all day.
Also, you completely missed my point - which was that billions of people have been trying to come up with evidence for many centuries, and of course, they can only look at a tiny fraction of the universe, but that doesn’t matter. If you haven’t found even a trace of shit, you can’t possibly make a claim saying otherwise.
Well, you can, but in that case it’s such huge and extraordinary claim that frankly, noone in their right mind should even consider giving it a second thought.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 month ago:
Surely, that was only the last nail on the coffin?
I think of the whole universe, the whole “creation”, as some kind of cosmic crime scene, and billions of Christians over the centuries have very thoroughly and desperately scanned it for evidence as to who did it.
That scene is the largest possible scene - there literally exists nothing else - and the number of investigators looking for clues is vast. Yet despite these odds, nobody has ever found any kind of undeniable evidence that God did it all.
Surely, you don’t need to read a book to understand that you can’t believe in a claim that contradicts that reality.
- Comment on fart 1 month ago:
Farting in an elevator is wrong on so many levels.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 month ago:
Thank goodness, there are 2⁷ ways to cure that.
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 1 month ago:
Wow, okay. At least I got my wife to appreciate a decent sauce, and I got her off the store-bought sauce mixes.
It’s been many years but I still remember which recipe did the trick: Salisbury steak.
Make steak patties using ground beef, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, pepper, breadcrumbs. Fry until brown. Set aside. In the same pan, sauté 250g mushrooms and a chopped onion until brown, add tomato paste, add some flour, add 500ml beef stock and a pinch of sugar (ketchup works well too). Salt and pepper to taste. Add steaks to sauce. Cook until steaks done.
She loves this and it kinda cured her from buying Maggi crap, lol.
