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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You completely ignored everything I said. You have no faith, you believe in nothing, other than adhering to labels that are favourable to your social circumstances and avoiding labels that aren't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't want to be an ass and tell this guy what he believes for him, but if someone claims only that god 'exists', without elaborating on any particular details about what sort of entity they are, it leads me to believe that they want to avoid the label atheist/agnostic for optics, but otherwise have an agnostic viewpoint (especially if they are willing to go so far as to say it doesn't matter if the god is 'real').

The claim about God being similar to morality or other things that become "real" through shared perception to me does not have any philosophical rigour. God is a different category of thing from morality or whatever other cultural phenomenon you want to compare it to.

You can 'believe' in morality or cultural phenomenon without having to think anything is real. The only thing that makes cultural phenomena real IS the fact that it is perceived to exist in our heads.

God is totally different. If you don't believe your God created the universe and/or life, the God you believe in is not a God by any sensible definition of the word.

If you find it equally possible that life in the universe could have just as easily arisen though purely mechanistic means as described by the laws of physics, then you do not believe in a God (unless you want to argue that they designed the laws of physics to eventually create life naturally).

Whether it's life itself being designed, or the laws of physics being designed to facilitate life, I think its fair to say you must believe the universe was intentionally crafted in some way to facilitate life in order for a god to exist.

This event, of the universe and/or life being conceived and instantiated refers to an actual event in astronomical history. It refers to a category of thing that's more real than the cultural phenomenon this guy compares it to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now you're just trying to pivot without having admitted that your analogy only makes sense if you assume everyone who gets cancer must have done something to deserve getting it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (11 children)

So anything bad that ever happens to you is your own fault?

Do you just walk around through life assuming cancer patients did something awful to deserve their disease? Cause that's the only way this analogy makes any sense...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Does the family not have grounds to sue the executive branch for defamation at this point?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you're using Ubuntu make sure you're using the most recent LTS release instead of the latest one. Stability issues shouldn't be a problem on those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Nah dw the mom just has epidermodysplasia verruciformis

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You do realize not all germans are responsible for ww2. Only like 37 percent were literal Nazis. Not sure why everyone hated them so much /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The left hand is nightmare fuel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Source of radiation given to someone to hold in their wallet/pocket

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

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