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- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
oh yeah, if you come out of this whole event cycle, whatever the hell it is as normal, then something’s wrong with you, lol
- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
I am a somewhat empathetic person.
I was raised in a family of people that had no empathy.
My grandmother met all of the criteria to be labeled as a sociopath, psychopath, something, and she raised her kids accordingly.
So when I was a kid, like my little sister would grab my arm and rake her nails down my arm to just grate as much skin off as she could because she was upset over something.
And I would complain, and I would be told that maybe I shouldn’t have upset her.
And also being a kid, sometimes I would cry.
And my grandmother came to me and was like, you’re bigger than her, why don’t you just do something about this? And I said, I do. I cry.
She thought that was hilarious. She told that story as a joke any time I was brought up for the rest of her life.
To me, when I see someone else crying because of something I did, that causes me emotional pain because I’m normal.
So I was attempting to cause emotional pain, not on purpose, but because I was actually hurt, as punishment for the action that my psychopath sister, who was raised by my psychopath mother, who was raised by my psychopath grandmother, had taken.
But the concept of feeling emotional pain as the consequence of your action choosing to hurt another person is and was so alien to the people in my family that it being explained to them comes across as humor.
Needless to say, I don’t associate with my family anymore. I have not talked to any person that I am blood related to in four months, and even that was just a quick text.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
It’s very much the same for being woke when opening your eyes to be woke today is like eating lunch in a room full of dead bodies.
- Comment on marriage update 1 week ago:
Given the fact that they can already do this level of sorcery, do you really want to piss them off by burning the towels they have so meticulously levitated?
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
If God would send you to hell forever because you didn’t worship him, because you were raised in a life where the Christian God was not the default religion, then he is an evil god and not worthy of being worshiped.
You might as well worship Cthulhu at that point, because he’s condemning, you know, what, 70% of every human that’s ever lived? to hell. forever.
The majority is not Christian and never has been Christian. Christianity has always been a very small portion of the population.
Even right now, world over, only about 20% of the world is Christian.
By the way evangelicals teach you, that means that four out of five people alive on this planet are going to hell by default. That is six billion souls that god is condemning to hell for not following the preachings of one specific book, the way you’re saying it.
That’s why I said you cannot rely on just the book. You have to actually put the work in and think logically from your best approximation of the viewpoint of a kind and loving God that created us with intentional purpose.
Don’t try to save the people that already have a religion. Try to save the people that are in need of salvation because they are erring in their life. They are sinning in their ways. They are doing wrong to themselves and to other people.
Love not fear.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 week ago:
I feel like the gender identity aspect of it is probably, at least correlated with the fact that many people in society are still uncomfortable with non-binary people.
If you face even the tiniest little drop of aversion when you go out in public on a regular basis, it’s going to decrease the amount of time you go out in public, and therefore you’re going to look for more things that you can do in the privacy of your own home.
That correlates probably also causes a relatively high percentage of non-binary people to get involved with technology.
- Comment on Might a well bring it full circle 1 week ago:
And it’s Zimbabwe, which is like 80 something percent Christian according to Wikipedia, so their cultural moors might be different from more liberal and progressive areas.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
Yeah, and I mean, there’s even lines in the Bible about figuring things out for yourself, which fit with my general philosophy, and there’s also a caution that just because one thing is okay for one person, it doesn’t mean it’s automatically okay for everyone, and so my mentality has to be careful.
This means that just because I believe something is not a sin doesn’t mean that someone else does, and everyone’s judged for themselves.
I’m sure if there is an intermediary point between now and the end of time where the majority rest waiting for the final judgment, there are many people tormenting themselves with guilt for eating meat on a Friday.
Going into the weeds a bit I believe that at the very end of things, that eternal piece of ourselves will be examined, and if it’s found to be good enough, it gets a pass on to the next realm, and if it’s found to not be good enough, well, hopefully it gets tossed back for a second try.
But worst case, it just ceases to be, because there’s no way that the God that invented love would punish someone eternally for temporary things, unless somehow they figured out the exact truth of everything and then used that truth to destroy as many eternal things as possible on purpose, with knowledge aforethought, fully cognizant of the consequences of their actions.
Even in Revelations the fire of hell that everyone talks about is called the “Second Death”. It’s not eternal hellfire and burning while all the joyous beautiful people clothed in white with wings play forever in paradise.
They just poof. They’re gone.
They cease to be.
So my walk, from what I understand, is not about finding the single exact right way out of all of the ways that are presented in the entire universe to meet the one specific set of requirements that is just good enough to let me through.
Mine is to learn what is out there, and to do my best to experience, and to figure out what is right for my soul, and then present that to my Creator, and take the gamble on whether or not He agrees.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
God is not a vengeful rules lawyer who’s looking for any excuse he possibly can find to punish every single human being that doesn’t do everything exactly the way a book written 2,000 years ago says it should have been done.
I have been through all of your objections in my own personal walk, and I’m making the choices that feel the most divinely inspired to me.
The greatest rule is love, and against love there is no law. And if I choose to love my neighbor and accept them the way they are, and my faith says that it is okay for them to be who they are, God’s not going to punish them for being the person who he made them to be based off of their life experiences, then I’m going to stick with that regardless of what a book says.
Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
There’s a line in the Bible that reads something along the lines of “Those that do not have the Word will be judged by the precepts of their own heart”, of course, immediately following it by saying something like the people that do have the word will be judged more leniently, but the idea stands.
Also, the people that love to quote the, I am the way the truth and the light, no man comes unto the Father except through me line tend to happily overlook that the greater part of the world was never contacted by any form of emissary from the Christian religion for like 1400 years minimum after Christ died.
I refuse to believe that God would allow 1400 years of the majority of humanity to be automatically assigned to hell by default, simply because they didn’t follow a rule they had no possibility whatsoever of following.
And I know there are hand-wavy exemptions for all of those things, but it’s hand-wavy, it’s not written down, therefore it doesn’t count.
Plus, I find it highly likely that at the Tower of Babel, not only where the languages changed, but probably the religions also.
Otherwise, us humans being the smart creatures we are probably would have realized that we worship God in exactly the same way we just say different words for it.
If you confuse the religion, the theology, by changing some of the unimportant practices while keeping the core tenets valid, then you can have multiple religions and multiple divisions in humanity that keep them from coming back together and reforming the Tower of Babel.
I realize that this is a heretical thought, but it allows me to learn about and understand the ideologies of multiple religions while still holding true to the one God that I believe in.
And also, it’s not that much of a stretch. I mean Islam is just a branch of Judaism. Christianity is just a branch of Judaism. They are all three Abrahamic religions. So any person that is a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Christian is still beholden to the same core concept.
I don’t know about Mormons, but the majority of the splinter churches for Christianity can just be grouped together, and then, as far as religions that are outside of that, like Shinto and Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, you just learn about them and learn where the commonalities are and how they share different concepts of religion and life and death and good, and evil, and spirituality, and what the reason for life is from all of those myriad viewpoints.
I mean, for instance, I’m Lakota, and there is an entire Lakota religion that is based off of living a good life and walking the Red Road. It has spiritual traditions like the sacred pipe and the hoop dance and the legends of buffalo corn woman and the white buffalo woman who is a harbinger of the apocalypse.
I feel like it would be disrespectful to my birth to abandon the learning and belief of my ancestors just because some people showed up 6,000 years after they came up with their own religious traditions and told them they were wrong.
So yeah, my ideology may be heretical to hardcore Christians, but it is not based out of trying to get a one-up on Christianity, or trying to find a way around the rules and laws of Christianity. I’m not practicing the other religions. I’m not worshipping any other god at all than the Christian God.
But my mentality allows me to talk to Hindu and Muslim people and buddhists and accept their beliefs as true for them and as that what the Creator led them to believe for his own purposes without attempting to shame them or tear them down or terrify them into following what I believe is the religion I’ve been led into for the same general reason.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I believe in the elect the way I’ve seen it presented because too many people present the idea of the elect like no matter what they do, they could fire bomb orphans and they’re still going to heaven, they’re the elect.
There’s no way it works that way.
If you were one of the elect the only fire you would be bringing to an orphan is the fire of a home-cooked meal or a fireplace for Christmas or something because you have invited them into your home so that they won’t be an orphan anymore.
If there is an elect, they’re gonna be like Mr. Rogers, or at least approaching Mr. Rogers.
Joe Bob Dingus, the local alcoholic racist that goes to church four times a year, is not going to be the elect.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 week ago:
My dad did.
It was the most infuriating shit ever, even when I asked him why would God allow Satan to create something so perfect as to deceive billions of people with evidence baked into the deception that cannot be contravened by any method known to man, his response was it’s just to test your faith.
To which I countered, if God sent me to hell for believing that dinosaurs existed, then he’s not a good God. And to which my dad replied, that’s blasphemy.
And don’t get me wrong, I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus, I believe in God. I actually believe in all of the major religions, but I lean towards Christianity personally, but there has to be some rationality, some understanding that human beings can rely on because God gave us the brains to think rationally and to consider what’s directly in front of us for what it is.
If you have to willfully be stupid and believe lies in order to go to heaven, then why would God make smart people that want to see the truth?
- Comment on where? 1 week ago:
Worst case you can swap seats with Jay so that you can talk to Kevin Smith while the both of you watch him hit on her.
- Comment on Or horribly right, I guess. 1 week ago:
See, you’re supposed to brush your teeth afterwards.
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 week ago:
I would fucking probably murder him.
He’s a sleazy bag that constantly bonds off of every single person he knows to the point where people abandon him over and over and over again due to his bummery. And to top it all off he sent nudes to my ex a few months before she died.
If I found out that on top of all of that he was a billionaire and could live a billionaire lifestyle and do whatever the hell he wanted to do and he went that far out of his way to make me miserable, I would just kill him.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried to bring this up before, but I personally don’t believe everyone should be treated the same.
In an ideal world where we had an objective way to measure this, I would prefer that we lived in an absolute meritocracy.
Some people are a better fit for a particular purpose than other people due to racial advantage, gender advantage, physical advantage, age advantage, or any other number of advantages that they have been gifted by the miracle of life and talent, or that they have earned from dedication and struggle.
In my ideal world, if you remove all of the things that are not important to the task at hand, and only judge based on who is most fit for the task at hand, then the people who are the best fit would get the most appropriate reward for their capacity.
As a nonwhite male IT worker, my ability to lift heavy objects is secondary to my ability to fix a printer. If a female can fix printers better than I can, she’s more than welcome to have the job at the same pay they would have paid me for it.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 weeks ago:
I personally don’t like the idea of the phrase toxic masculinity because I don’t believe that the masculine energy is toxic in and of itself. I feel like a more appropriate term would be pseudo masculinity. Because that implies that people are not naturally this way, but they are forcing themselves to act this way in pursuit of some perceived ideal of masculinity.
I mean, humans are frequently guilty of using terms that mean a very specific thing in a much broader sense as a shorthand for clearly communicating what we specifically mean in that instance.
For instance, I have heard people are use the phrase “toxic masculinity” to describe boyfriends that don’t want to do the dishes, when the actual correct term is “lazy piece of shit”, but for some reason, when communicating this information to other people, it is easier for them to ascribe an issue with the sex of the person than an issue with the sex of the person, implying that the only actual fix is to repair your emotional relationship with your own sex instead of accepting that everyone has a human responsibility to contribute to doing the chores around the house.
Once again, I reiterate that masculinity and masculine energy is not toxic, any more than femininity and feminine energy is toxic, and I also exhort anyone that took the time to read this much to do their best to effectively and accurately communicate using specific language rather than emotional shorthand.
- Comment on Muad'Dib Dib Dib 2 weeks ago:
I think you should reverse the images, Kyle McLaughlin was the better muadib
- Comment on opportunities 2 weeks ago:
They are thinking very highly of the torque handling capability of the arm of that trebuche compared to the support its base provides.
- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 2 weeks ago:
When I went through the trouble of doing that, I got nginx reverse proxy set up and then got a Let’s Encrypt for my internal local addressing scheme through Let’s Encrypt.
It was kind of intimidating to set up, but it worked flawlessly.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
Well, this one’s for sale for $23,000, if it’s something you’ve got to have
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have the money to test this, but I imagine that there are other insurances available for people with more than $250,000 in cash assets.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
Dopplegangers are literally one of the most terrifying scary monsters.
It tracks you down. It learns everything about you. It hides in your house. It kills you. It takes over your life. Nobody ever finds your corpse.
Like so far, you are the only person in this thread to have an actual scary monster.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
My first truck was an 86 Chevy, and it had one of those in it, and the fucker broke, and that was the most embarrassing $5 I ever had to spend at an auto parts store.
Cause I didn’t know what to call it cause I was a stupid teenager and I was just like, I need that little thing you play with with your foot to turn the lights on.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
A friend was out looking for a classic car and saw this and sent it to me. Image
- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 2 weeks ago:
Okay, one, as many people use it, it seems like it would be fairly likely that they would be caught if they were doing something shady.
Two, the program does not have access to anything other than the text conversations you are having with it, so it’s not like there’s an awful lot of PII that could be exfiltrated through the software.
I would say that you are just as safe using LM Studio as you are using Ollama, at least for now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck did you do to my wife?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Legally, I can get a no fault anullment if you don’t put out within the first 30 days.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 3 weeks ago:
I would argue that hiding information is not always lying.
There are lies of omission, but it depends on if you are asked about the things you are omitting or not.
And even if you are, it is possible to steer the conversation away from the thing without actually telling a lie.
Politicians do it all of the time.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 3 weeks ago:
I work with lawyers and I have to say lawyers are by and far either the most or least ethical people you have ever met.
And success is not determined by your ethics as a lawyer.
The best lawyers find the points of the truth that are the most salient to their case and push those.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You would say something like that, wouldn’t you?
