TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hails 2 days ago:
The difference is that the law comes from an infallible authority - the government, while God who created all things including morality is infallible.
So to you, god being infallible and orders segregation, you’d do it?
How do you know God didn’t punish Lot’s daughters? The argument from silence won’t cut it here.
Don’t throw stones into glasshouses. You are the one who clearly avoid questions. Will you approve of segregation if your god states it? And what is so bad with the fruit of knowledge? You still haven’t answered that rhetorical question because you probably know already the answer. Silence won’t cut here.
When you die, God judges you, and He judges you perfectly. The ones who don’t get punished aren’t simply waived away.
So those who weren’t punished are punished later. Sounds like selective justice.
It’s because their punishment has already been paid for by them through Jesus Christ’s suffering on the cross, Whom they repented to and embraced. And that offer is open to everyone, including you.
This is something that Christians could never explain. How does sacrificing your own flesh and blood (even early Christians argued whether or not Jesus is Yahweh’s own physical manifestation, or his own offspring, or both) cleanse the sins of the world? Even after Jesus died, people still carried on with their lives. And someone already explained, the accounts of Jesus were written 30 to 600 years of his claimed death. And in that time, dozens of books about Jesus and Christianity were written but the rest were discarded and cherry picked four or five books. If these books are all true then there is no reason for them not to be compiled at all together.
If your god is omnipotent and omniscient, why sacrifice a human being to cleanse the world of sins? An all-powerful god would just snap his finger and make all sins forgiven. But instead a human had to be sacrificed-- and his own flesh and blood at that. Why worship such a sadistic god? That being said, many scholars believe that Yahweh is a god of war from the pantheon of Levantine gods. Which explains the violent accounts. And that implies the true nature of monotheist dogma of Abrahamic religions. Reckon this is what the Bible means from withholding the fruit of knowledge?
- Comment on Hails 3 days ago:
God could have punished Lot’s daughters though.
So let me get this straight, he punishes those who commit sins according to his own judgement, but some who commit sins are not punished? Does Yahweh have concrete rule he follows or not? Why do some get punished while others don’t? And why are some commandments just there-- like not allowing to eat the fruit of knowledge. Everyone like knowledge, right? What is so bad about knowledge that Yahweh does not want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit containing the knowledge? Which goes back to the point whether Yahweh is omniscient and yet does nothing, or he’s not omniscient at all. Or rather, he’s omniscient but tempts people into commiting so-called “sins” knowing the person will disobey, and then judge later on despite knowing what the person will do prior to doing it. Interesting. Sounds like this god is a mad scientist.
- Comment on Hails 3 days ago:
So you tolerate rules that are not only nonsensical, but also makes everyone’s lives harder? And that everyone should put up with it simply because they’re rules no matter how arbitrary? Segregation between black and white people was also a rule, you know?
Moreover, nowhere did you and I mention Yahweh prevented any disobedience. In any case, your comment acknowledges that Yahweh allows disobedience but has the power to prevent it. So, either he is omniscient and could prevent future actions but does nothing, or he isn’t omniscient at all.
- Comment on Hails 3 days ago:
And yet Lot’s children were spared by Yahweh and let a man be raper.
Lot’s wife played games with stupid rules that is.
- Comment on Schrodinger 3 days ago:
As far as I know, he was a player if you know what I mean. Which is not as bad as being a pedophile.
- Comment on Hails 3 days ago:
The consolation after killing childrenfor the sins of their parents is that they go to heaven. Great.
Lot’s wife turning into a salt of pillar is not justified though…leading to his daughters raping him and committing incest to “repopulate the earth”. That would not have happened had the wife not turn into a salt of pillar, simply for arbitrary command given by Yahweh that doesn’t make sense. What a wholesome story.
- Comment on Hails 4 days ago:
It’s not like unquestioning obedience to authority hasn’t led to despair, and to both figurative and literal mass suicide before. The Germans only said they were only following orders from their fuhrer; and so were the people in Jonestown following their prophet’s order to drink poison.
Plenty of nonsensical rules in the bible, my friend. And Yahweh has issued so many bad commands, particularly in the Old testaments with violent punishments. Like, ordering to kill first born children, who have nothing to do with enslaving Jews as they are too young to be involved nor make any decisions. Not to mention the really weird accounts on Lot’s family, starting with the arbitrary command to not look back while Sodom was being smite, resulting in Lot’s wife turning to a pillar of salt.
I don’t like all of these, and even if they are true accounts, then the whole world just blindly follows a power-tripping deity who punishes innocent children, and turn someone into a pillar of salt for breaking a command that serves no purpose and has no sense in its nature whatsoever. Only an absolute ruler could make such rules and commands with no sense-- like ordering not to eat the fruit of knowledge. What is so bad with eating the fruit of knowledge? Everyone wants knowledge after all, right?
- Comment on Hails 4 days ago:
Interesting. But not to be facetious, if one reads carefully, literally and critically the story of garden of Eden, one could easily asks “Okay, what is actually bad with eating the apple of knowledge? Everyone wants knowledge, right?” I have thought about this when I was a child. But I brushed it off because the church teach that the moral of the story is to follow god etc, or you will be punished. I guess the point of that story worked on me as I let go of that nagging feeling the it doesn’t add up. Religion discourages one from thinking critically even at the face of irrational and illogical inconsistencies; resulting in adopting a double think.
- Comment on Hails 4 days ago:
When did the story of Prometheus came? I assumed the Greek myths either came before, or more or less at the same time as the Torah.
- Comment on Hails 4 days ago:
Shush… if theists could read they’d be upset!
- Comment on *Naruto 5 days ago:
I had a boss who got married when he was 40 as well. Same as others, I’m also unmarried and in early 30s, but I don’t feel the need to keep up with the Joneses either. I still have many things to do before I feel the need to settle down. There are plenty of people who marry late and don’t regret it. It’s best to figure out first what you want before jumping the gun, simply for the sake of social conformance and then regret it. I’m sure we know of people regretting marrying early, or stick to an unhappy marriage out of insecurity or for whatever reason.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 week ago:
While I understand that I’m giving up “owning” the game, Steam has a good track record of trying to make users happy.
When Gabe Newell dies or leaves the company though, I’ll be watching closely to see who the new CEO will be and figure it out from there.
This is one of the many reasons why I prefer to buy games in Gog, although I have more games on Steam mainly because I got them on bundled deals.
The rule of thumb is that “this is why we can’t have nice things” and all things eventually become enshittified. Enjoy the nice things while they’re there, but always have contingencies.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
~Life~ Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of
pornimages and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours! - Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Funny and strange that the article came from The Irish Times. I live in Ireland, and foreign nationals love to work here because of more laidback working culture. This is not “quiet quitting” in the Irish context, it’s “as long as all your work is done, you can do whatever the fuck you want.”
I have culture shock hearing from others who worked abroad and say how toxic the work environments are in some places. I had co-workers from Spain and Portugal say you can get pressured to work on weekends, or do tasks outside of working hours. Verbal abuse and shouting also happens more frequently.
- Comment on vengance 2 weeks ago:
Aldaba rail: I’M BACK, BITCHES!
Climate change: Not on my watch.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
Assuming you’re in UK or Ireland, most of the world still pays for SMS.
- Comment on shoebills 2 weeks ago:
Example of “living fossil”.
- Comment on Boredom births creativity 3 weeks ago:
Wait until he/she finds out ancient Romans love to draw and talk about penises, and being vulgar about people they detest on their wall writings.
I reckon it was from the Middle Ages and the influence of Christianity that people became more uptight with anything that is seen in public.
- Comment on geoengineering 3 weeks ago:
People are thinking about planets but there are potential habitable satellites or moons in the solar system. One of Jupiter’s moon, Callisto, has surface water and potentially habitable by terraforming.
- Comment on banaynay 3 weeks ago:
The melons he tells you not to worry about.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
What’s a VHS tape?
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 4 weeks ago:
The biggest organism in the world is a fungus which goes miles long. scientificamerican.com/…/strange-but-true-largest…
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t happen to me on YT but on Facebook with suggested pages but only for a brief while…
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 4 weeks ago:
Tell that to the citizens of Tambov and Kronstadt sailors in the 1920s.
- Comment on Quite a talent 5 weeks ago:
Where can I learn this power?
- Comment on Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised' 5 weeks ago:
So you’re saying we should be Straya?
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
Expansion packs were more complete experience than DLCs sold piece by piece.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
I mean technical wise, games are better now and could easily be patched, but I think that’s why games had better gameplay in the past to make up for the lack of gamer accessibility to patching.