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@FlyingSquid @magnolia_mayhem
Turns out he was lying anyway & the ‘deceptive’ serpent was telling the truth.
@FlyingSquid @magnolia_mayhem
Turns out he was lying anyway & the ‘deceptive’ serpent was telling the truth.
@uriel238 @magnolia_mayhem
Sounds like New Guinea but I haven’t ever heard the Levi jeans angle.
@Lanky_Pomegranate530
I was raised in a somewhat skeptical environment but had been drawn to Christianity by a charismatic bullshit artist.
A new girlfriend was interested in me & asked me to explain my beliefs. As the words were coming out of my mouth, I felt like such a gullible, credulous moron. Something about saying it out loud rather than just thinking or hearing it popped the illusion. Like waking from a weird dream.
Unintentional street epistemology. Still together 37 years later.
@RandoCalrandian @DeadNinja @Darkard @ivanafterall
Logically, praying for any outcome is against the will of God.
If God has a plan, prayer is basically asking him to change it because you have a better plan.
@ChunkMcHorkle @Lanky_Pomegranate530
35 years of faith must have been brutal mentally.
I’m Aussie so religion is not much of an issue here but I deal with it by separating the person from the faith if possible.
Belief is not a choice & I’m not convinced by biblical evidence. Feigning belief would not fool God if he exists.
My christian friends agree to disagree & we move on to other topics. I will not be the angry atheist they need me to be to reinforce their negative opinion of atheists.
@metaStatic @i_have_no_enemies
LeMaitre only took it as far as the universe expanding. He just reversed the expansion to conceive the starting point which was disparaged as the big bang. I’m not sure he had the tools or ability to work out singularities. I may be wrong though.
Einstein made the mistake of inventing the cosmological constant to make the universe a steady state against the evidence he was seeing.
@i_have_no_enemies
And he received push back from the science community who thought he was trying to shoe horn religion into science.
You gotta be careful with that scientific confidence thing.
@MrJameGumb @zarkanian
That whole punishment for not resisting the temptation of looking back seems to have been borrowed from the Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice. Like many other biblical stories.
@FlyingSquid @YoBuckStopsHere
Or patriotism.
Tribalism is basically the problem.
@not_that_guy05 @Lanky_Pomegranate530
Every prayer for action is an attempt to get God to change his divine plan because you think your plan is better.
At the very least, praying is patting God on the back & saying ‘keep up the good work’.
@thantik
& It’s the same imaginary friend.
@TokenBoomer
I wouldn’t call it rapid fire.
Sort of BBC style.
Another good site is the charismatic voice. A classically trained operatic soprano voice coach reviews heavy metal videos suggested by viewers. She describes the technicalities of what the singers are doing & how.
‘entire history of the universe’
Science, quantum physics, informative, visually stunning, historically accurate & on a Sunday afternoon on the lounge with a glass of wine, will put you into the deepest sleep ever.
@FlyingSquid @ekZepp
& especially when several prominent atheists instantly answer & explain ‘this’.