ArgumentativeMonotheist

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan's first female prime minister⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Same kind of dick but now with a cunt!” (please excuse my potty mouth)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia is your first go to comparison and not, let’s say, the US which has been creating chaos around the world for at least 50 years straight and spinning the shit out of reality to make it somehow sound like they’re fighting the “good fight”, something only believable by those completely unaware of what’s happening in the world? Westerners, I tell you. 😑

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts about responsibility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Virtue is its own reward, but I understand feeling like an outsider for at least valuing personal responsibility in American society. Stay strong?! 💪😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are not meant to be happy; people are supposed to keep working till they finish or get replaced by another sad human being.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happiness is to a large degree a “skill issue” (a mixture of knowing yourself, knowing you’re a human being after all [even if you hate it], having the right ideology [not necessarily with all doubts erased and all boxes checked, I think that’s Impossible, but “right enough”] and the right attitude), which is very manageable, IME. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t be Muslim and think anything or anyone else is Divine in any way like Him, be it a son or an accompanying “god”. The Oneness of God is a core, undeniable part of Islam (any branch, any sect, etc., because it’s based on a singular book that’s accessible to all, the Qur’an, and that’s like THE main tenet of it). But yes, prophet Isa, big J, is of course a big part of the history of the religion! I don’t mean to be mean to Christians but listen, even in the Bible Jesus is shown praying (why would “God” pray?!), asking for intercession, and even denying being called ‘good’ because “only the Father is good” (because all of these hard categories belong only to God, He’s the superlative of all the good traits, our unreachable goal, since there’s “good and bad” in all of us, a bit of vice not just virtue). Jesus was a man who believed in God and asked Him for help and his prayer mentions it strongly!

  But yeah, Jesus is/should be seen as big for every Muslim regardless of whether you know his message or not simply because, even if it didn’t take complete root and the message was shared to the world already changed and corrupted by the Romans, it did perhaps prepare the world, through Western colonization, for virtue and monotheism (if you believe you’ll meet the Creator and be judged for your decisions in life you kind of have a bigger motivation to act right! lol), and that’s a crazy way to get there but hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways. And then people can adopt Islam, which basically takes any man, saints, St. Peter and the keys, etc, all of that nonsense out of the equation entirely and tells you: "your life is and the universe are gifts from your Creator that you will never be able to repay (of course, who here can make a universe?!), enjoy them but walk the straight path, and you will meet Him again on the Day of Judgment and if you were even slightly decent (at the very least very repentant while you’re alive still), you get an even better second, eternal life (why not? He already made a universe once at least!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certain there are Muslim commies, probably some Christian commies too, right? The redistribution of wealth (if not the means of production) in a more equitable manner and the condemnation of greed are part of and at the core the message of prophets Jesus and Mohammed. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French is truly the language of love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “La chatte de la petite est sale, mon lit sent le poisson salé (pue du cul).” 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The religious heads of his time and place were opposed to him, yes, but that doesn’t make Abrahamic and Mosaic Judaism any less important. If someone had the courage to be openly moral and follow Jesus’ footsteps in “Christian” America, he’d also be silenced…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Jesus (in the Bible!) = “God is one, the Father, and I pray to Him for guidance and strength, and to forgive my sins. I preach righteousness, selflessness and peace amongst us brothers and sisters.”

  • Jesus for Paulians, Roman Catholics and derivatives = “God is three, one of them is Jesus, and if you believe these two things you’re automatically saved, nvm morals, selflessness and righteousness, that’s optional.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what does that even mean? Jesus comes to you and holds you by the hand into salvation? Or following the teachings of Jesus does? Because if that’s so, then you’d also have to follow the law, right? Paul is a trickster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanna follow Jesus (according to the best of our information about him), you can’t be a Trinitarian quasi polytheist who thinks faith, salvation and works are all disjointed and independent. But Paulian doctrines are nothing but that, and the way for a Roman Empire to convert Jesus’ message of accountability and righteousness and his Abrahamic monotheism to something more palatable and in-line with their existing beliefs. This includes but is not limited to: a pantheon of three (with a “human God” as one of those three), “consumption of blood and flesh” rituals, the Day of Judgment no longer being one of actual judgment because if you “believe” “Jesus is God” you’re automatically saved, whatever Paulian “grace” was…

  The Roman Empire is the grandaddy of all Western imperialistic doctrines and my informed guess is that Paul, who didn’t actually know Jesus and even in the Bible he gets told off by Jesus’ actual followers, was nothing more than an agent of destabilisation and an infiltrator, perhaps sent by the Romans themselves but if not at least used by them to create what we know now as “Roman Catholicism”, which is nothing but a deformed, unrecognisable husk of the teachings of big J. Whether this happened this way or more organically is up to debate, whether Jesus’ teachings and Christendom are fundamentally different is not, though, that just requires some basic reading comprehension skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The level of discourse in the US right now ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s okay to erase the native population of the land we’ve invaded and it’s also okay to import others as chattel so they work the land for us… but if you suck ONE dick, you’re the devil!”

  The American moral compass was always broken, and most Americans don’t even notice it. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your last sentence should’ve been what OP posted, you’re right. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re intelligent enough to know that doing shit like this will be to their gain in this world, but not mature enough not to do it (nor do they believe in God and the Day of Judgment). They’re not morons, drooling over themselves and thinking 1+1=shoe, they’re just bad people. It’s an important distinction to make, and the following questions are “who isn’t a bad person in the American government?” and “why does my society seem to be okay-enough with all of this?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Morons or enemies to their fellow men?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reuters: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who in their right mind would expect the American government to ever do anything besides being true to its global rapist, troublemaker, doublespeaking charlatan ethos? Regardless of the elected scapegoat, things have always moved one way, the difference is only in the speed and openness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The West has reached its cultural coming out moment, I see. 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stupid” does not apply here, unless you have an alternative version of reality. Corrupt politicians with no morals will sell the country if they get a cut, regardless of how it might affect those around the world, having only a selfish interest (for reelection purposes and whatnot) in the relative well-being of the citizens. This is logical and expected… they’re not stupid, they’re just amoral, selfish, greedy, unrepenting and inhumane folks. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Golden Rule is flawed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Navigating the world requires a bit more discernment. Hugging a teenage bully and speaking to him with kind words does more for society and the bully himself than just “treating him like he treats others”, but it also requires more wisdom and self-control, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you do necessarily… if you’re very clever, honest, empathetic and/or honourable, but it will certainly keep you more accountable and remorseful even in that case! And for the vast majority of people, who simply don’t have any of those qualities to the necessary degree to competently move around in the world righteously, belief in God and fear of the Day of Judgment will be the main/only barrier to stop them from transgressing greatly. It would certainly help in this amoral, self-serving, anti-intellectual, post-truth USA, for example (and don’t say these people believe in what Jesus believed in or anything like that, cause any cursory reading of the Sermon on the Mount could show you these so called religious people don’t conduct themselves in any prosocial, selfless way, nor do the believe God will judge them for their atrocities/troublemaking).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes, and also morality, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowledge? My man, this is belief in the unseen, the spiritual and metaphysical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t “show you evidence” for something that exists outside and before space-time! And, lol, I appreciate your good vibes despite my madness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because people have been wrong in their understanding of right and wrong many times and in many places does not mean objective, factual things cannot exist and be said about them. I’m sure that if we sat down the entirety of humanity to talk about it, we’d reach consensus about everything major and simple and concessions about anything minor and complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the Creation is not enough, then idk. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But morality wasn’t (unless you are, and may the Creator forgive me for uttering this word, a relativist), and that’s important to remember! Ideally, laws follow from moral truths but alas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨political debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever talks seriously about “racial politics” and not at least “cultural politics” is already lost, has never interacted with people deeply outside of their same tribe (because then he’d see how any important differences are not racial and genetic but learned, ideological and sociocultural) and probably gets all his “information” regarding the narratives and metanarratives from propaganda feeds. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you incapable of working or do you just choose to be a parasite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardest battles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one of God’s weak soldiers and I relate, lol. This is why it’s important to be empathetic and have a softer approach to people as much as we can afford it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Repost:

  “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”

  Honestly, expected. The Western painfully empty God-hole needs to be filled and hedonism and consumerism can only go so far. 🤷