ArgumentativeMonotheist
@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dunno if this fits here, but... 4 hours ago:
Jeez. What app is it?
- Comment on a man of many minds 1 day ago:
At least he cares about belief enough to “debate” it, even if he doesn’t understand it. I think many “hardcore atheists” are just Western Trinitarians who, at least for a while, wished religion had substance but then they see megachurches and politicians saying “God Bless America” before bombing and raping the global South and they’re utterly disappointed.
- Comment on Mark Carney says rules-based global order is over, offers blueprint for ‘third path’ 1 day ago:
It was an euphemism for American domination, vassal states are afraid they’re gonna get chomped by the Burgers so its time to play nice with the rest of the world before they get bullied/absorbed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It delivers a message of righteousness, even to one’s own physical detriment… If you won’t read the words of the prophets, it’s better than nothing. 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Ecclesiastes is a fantastic book that’s part of the collection of books we call the Bible!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Read “Ecclesiastes” and the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). 👍
- Comment on If only 1 day ago:
You’d be arrested for 1)illegal time travelling; 2)ruining the American false flag op that allowed for the invasion of the Middle East!
- Comment on Do we ? 3 days ago:
He’s right though, as someone who has actually come close to it. We should take suicidal ideation and tries as something really serious and not to be joked about unless you already bought the toaster. It’s not just in poor taste, but it’s also childish. You appreciate life, obviously, you’re just whining and being dramatic, you’ll forget about this feeling in 30 mins when you’re wanking…
- Comment on ai generated logo 3 days ago:
From my money, at the moment? Sure, ofc. For the world, and through taxation and other governmental money collection methods? Nuh uh.
- Comment on Do we ? 3 days ago:
You make too much sense, those downvotes were inevitable, lol.
- Comment on Do we ? 3 days ago:
Where’s this answer coming from and what does it accomplish? 🙄
- Comment on 'The finest in the world': Why the US is buying icebreakers from Finland 3 days ago:
If they actually bought them then Greenland is already American. Man, fuck imperialism.
- Comment on Lose yourself 3 days ago:
Okay, I’m sorry.
- Comment on It's just obvious 3 days ago:
I think you have a very prosocial and lovely stance, and I agree with the sentiment entirely, but idk if transphobia is due to extensive knowledge of the human body, and not just an ignorant excuse for someone’s negative gut reaction/hatred, and the Crusades and South American colonization with a cross and guns was only spun with the idea of religion (really, God wills you to annihilate and subjugate peaceful people around the world?). Also, someone can and should be able to disagree with someone on non-moral stances without hating them, we should be able to live even if you consider yourself trans or otherkin and I don’t think your ideological foundation for it is valid, as long as we’re all behaving with a minimum of humanity. People should be a bit more, uh, uncertain about things though and humble because of it, certainly, as it’s not just a more valid attitude regarding our knowledge and the limits to our understanding but also the only way you can actually change your mind and progress intellectually. Idk. 🤷😅
- Comment on It's just obvious 3 days ago:
I feel like we can do both, we can’t just deny eccentric physicists the pleasure of better understanding the universe! 😅 Even if we most likely won’t find construct some “last theorem”, even if reality is itself not just epistemologically unknowable but physically so as well the building blocks of reality are not actual blocks but something less permanent, there’s value in getting as close as possible. The other side is for philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, and the world is big enough for all of us. 👍
- Comment on Lose yourself 3 days ago:
Fundamentally, sure, but the problem here is that he’s an amoral, self-serving, hellbound nonce and whoever pays him told him that’s his line. I have friends and colleagues with different intellectual capacities (and, as proud as I am, I can recognise sometimes I’m a big idiot), but they all seem to have their hearts in the right place, at least enough not to defend pedo murderers. 🤷
- Comment on Lose yourself 3 days ago:
Let’s just hope that these displays of honesty eventually lead to eye-opening experiences for fence-sitting Americans. Also, I told y’all about the dangers of post-modern thought, about the lack of convictions that come from denying objective reality, I told y’all. Now everything can go, cause how can you say these people are evil and their values are all fucked up? It’s just a matter of perspective! 😔
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 4 days ago:
No lie!
- Comment on It's just obvious 4 days ago:
You should start a YouTube channel! 😅
- Comment on It's just obvious 4 days ago:
I just threw that out there for a material approach but even otherwise what is is unknownable, but what we perceive is something we can work with. And that’s the whole point: mathematics are simply not a description of reality, but a tool for understanding what we explore in reality through physics, biology, chemistry, etc., it’s a solid framework to understand the universe, but by itself it says nothing about it, it only says something about logic and understanding itself, and it’s limitations (Russell’s paradox, for instance). This is extremely useful and foundational, ofc, but all of our geniuses worked within these walls and all of our “knowledge” comes with this caveat.
- Comment on It's just obvious 4 days ago:
But even the best map remains a map, not the terrain. Our mental encapsulations of reality will always be lacking and we fundamentally cannot reach omniscience, even with all resources put together. 🤷
- Comment on It's just obvious 4 days ago:
Everyone who takes knowledge seriously knows the best you can have are incomplete but useful models that provide somewhat accurate predictions. 👍
- Comment on US | Trump tries to extort even his fake Gaza 'board of peace' 4 days ago:
Extort? This is a presale for founding members of the new Western colonial management. And of course a chunk of money would go to Trump, why do you think he decided to be capital’s scapegoat? Out of kindness? Lol. Stop trying to legitimise Western imperialism or understand any of this through a filter of morals… since the days of viking pillaging to the Crusades to the Dutch East India Company to the Opium wars to the double nuke drop, the West (America being the current manager of the empire since the reshuffle of power around WW2) has never operated on or believed in moral values, the only difference now is that a declining America with a lot of desperate, confused, propagandised and amoral white people doesn’t even feel the need to spin things anymore, so some things you were told by the empire are obviously clashing with things the empire does.
- Comment on Ligma 4 days ago:
Thank you for the thoughtful post! And yeah, perhaps strategically destroying arms factories and bases, and targeting those in power, would have worked better, that makes sense.
- Comment on Some hacker should take one for the team and release the declassified Epstein Files 4 days ago:
Not the world, but certainly America. The whole “once the files are released then we will rise up for real!” is nothing but a sad fantasy, and something that limits American organisation and real change. The lines were crossed back when the OG Anglo-Saxon conquerors came and almost annihilated the natives, then again with chattel slavery, then again with gunboat diplomacy in America, then again with dropping nukes, then again…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think Russian collusion is only a small part of the restructuring and retreat of the American empire, much of it has to do simply with the rise of regional powers and American corruption at all levels of government, which means that the empire’s military is not as well funded as before, that different groups of politicians will take money from sometimes competing factions of capital (the people are an afterthought, you just need to spin things well for them to buy it either way), and finally, that America cannot just do what it wants in the world as it did just 20 years ago.
Would Russia benefit from a weaker America? Of course, most of the world would, especially the vassal states like the one I live in which are now threatened by America. Did Russia have something to do with Trump and the rise of MAGA? Certainly, they do the same in Europe by financing major far right groups (Marine Le Pen is on the Russian payroll, for instance). Would all of this, including ICE, have happened regardless? Yes, probably just comparatively slowly, because the world just used the worst traits of American society against them, and your leaders have and would have done it regardless, but Trump is just too charismatic to much of the American public not to use his existence and this critical time to better spin what is an obvious sale of America.
- Comment on Ligma 4 days ago:
Okay, serious talk: was Ozymandias wrong in his assessment of the world and his (temporary, of course, nothing lasts forever) solution to nuclear annihilation or were his methods simply distasteful? If a nuke dropped on New York could stop WW3, at least put it on hold for 50 years, would it not be worth it? If an entire American state was glassed but in return Western/American imperialism stopped being a thing, would it not be worth it? I feel like the global South, victims of Western amoral moves, pillaging and murder, would not only consider it worth it but light as a retribution…
What do y’all think? 🤔 For the record, I’m basing this on the movie, idk if the comic is fundamentally different or mostly aesthetically so.
- Comment on Some hacker in thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and release the Epstein Files 5 days ago:
Pretty much. Showbiz is close, except you’re the one selling your body to some gross old white dude with jowls, and it’s no secret for instance there was a “blonde boom” back in the Weinstein days because that’s what he liked to fuck.
- Comment on Some hacker in thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and release the Epstein Files 5 days ago:
They were always in there together but somewhere down the line they had some dispute amongst themselves and the whole Epstein thing happened and now the cat’s out of the bag and the situation has to be managed but everyone is trying not to lose face whilst doing it, or it was a miscalculation by Mossad. Regardless, they were always in there together, even “leftist heroes”, and there are enough publicly available pictures for anyone to understand that whatever colour your team is, they’re in cahoots, get paid by the same folk and touch the same kids.
- Comment on The hair even covers its face... 5 days ago:
Don’t compare these amoral beasts to cute 2nd best gen Pokémon!