glorkon
@glorkon@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 8 hours ago:
Wow, okay. At least I got my wife to appreciate a decent sauce, and I got her off the store-bought sauce mixes.
It’s been many years but I still remember which recipe did the trick: Salisbury steak.
Make steak patties using ground beef, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, pepper, breadcrumbs. Fry until brown. Set aside. In the same pan, sauté 250g mushrooms and a chopped onion until brown, add tomato paste, add some flour, add 500ml beef stock and a pinch of sugar (ketchup works well too). Salt and pepper to taste. Add steaks to sauce. Cook until steaks done.
She loves this and it kinda cured her from buying Maggi crap, lol.
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 9 hours ago:
I never heard of Moqueca and googled it, and it does look very delicious!
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 9 hours ago:
I like a good steak. My wife does not like it medium rare, she belongs to those heretics who would shamelessly order it well done (that’s why I never go to steakhouses with her). She also hates spicy food. Or some kinds of traditional German food which I grew up with.
So yeah. Whenever she’s away, it’s usually steak, some spicy Asian dish or Berlin style grilled liver.
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 23 hours ago:
Same here, except I also use the opportunity to cook stuff for myself that my wife doesn’t like. Fuck pizza.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
No, I’ve never told anyone what to call themselves except Christians. I don’t care what denomination or special kind of Christians they insist on being.
But now that you’ve started the Ad Hominems, calling me uneducated instead of explaining the “huge difference”, apparently you’ve run out of arguments. Or knowledge. Or both. Someone who claims to be an expert on logical fallacies like the No True Scotsman should also understand that you’ve sunk very low if you need to resort to Ad Hominems.
So you just stopped being as respectful to me as I was to you during the whole discussion and now I’ve lost interest in talking to you. You proved yourself undeserving of my time. Good day.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
The difference between atheism and agnosticism has no practical meaning to the vast majority of unbelievers.
You can’t positively state that something does not exist. You can’t logically be 100% certain there is no God. We know that. So if you love going by definitions, yes, most unbelievers are agnostics, not atheists.
So why do we keep calling ourselves atheists? Because we view the likelihood of God’s existence as so infinitesimally small, the difference between agnosticism and atheism becomes negligible. If we rate the odds of God’s existence at 0,000000001% we can as well just call it zero.
In other words, stop whining about atheists not using the term you’d prefer. We don’t tell you what you should call yourself either.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
If someone denounces this baseline (and not fails to follow it, but denounces it), there’s not much left to a claim of following Christ.
And that is not an objective statement that’s verifiably and objectively true. It DOES depend on personal opinion and interpretation. Other Christians might say other stuff in the Bible is more important. Like killing homosexuals. Or burning witches.
There is no clear definition of an ideal Christian. Never was. Never will be. Every century has its own view on what Christianity has to be like, we just happen to live in one which tends to agree with your views.
In other words, according to your statement, there were almost no Christians a few centuries ago, which is verifiably untrue.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
“No atheist believes in God” is a factually correct statement. It’s like saying “One does not equal two” - a verifiable, objective truth that does not rely on anyone’s opinion.
Therefore, person B make a contradictory statement, and person A would be correct in responding “Then you aren’t an atheist”, because person B stated a verifiable falsehood. Same as saying “One equals two”. We all know it’s wrong.
Christianity has a much looser definition. You quoted it yourself:
A Christian (/ˈkrɪstʃən, -tiən/ ⓘ) is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
So anyone who follows this religion and calls himself a Christian is a Christian. Nothing in the definition says “You must follow the Bible to the exact letter” in order to be one. There wouldn’t be ANY Christians if that were true.
So that leaves us with a whole bunch of people who all claim to be Christian, but have different opinions on…
- how strictly do you have to follow the Bible,
- racism are condoned or forbidden by the Bible,
- if slavery is forbidden by the Bible,
- who you can fuck,
- what kind of funny hat you have to wear,
- what food you can or can’t eat,
- if you have to kill any non-believers,
… et cetera, et cetera.
And all of these people claim the others aren’t the true believers.
Now here’s a very simple question: What gives you the confidence, why should we believe you that it’s YOU, out of all these people, who follows the correct interpretation of the Bible?
That’s why the No True Scotsman fallacy applies to the whole bunch, including you, when you claim the others are no true Christians. Not a single Christian can objectively, verifiably prove that their individual view of Christianity is the correct one.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
American “Christians” aren’t Christians
Classic defense by religious apologists and still a fallacy. You don’t wish to associate all the bad Christians with Christianity, so you pull the old “they aren’t real Christians” card. No, only you, a good and righteous and kindhearted person, you are the only one who is a true Christian. Of course. We’ve heard it countless times.
Of course they’re Christians. You don’t get to whitewash Christianity by simply declaring they aren’t.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
And don’t forget, those are the people who tell us atheists that “without the Bible, where do you get your morals from?”
Well, we can see what these biblical morals are - you mentioned it: homophobia, racism etcetera. It makes people hateful, while claiming it is charity and compassion.
Religion poisons everything.
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 1 week ago:
Tsunamis move at those speeds you mentioned only at open sea. The closer to land they come, the slower they get, as all that kinetic energy is used to build up height.
But even when they reach shore, they’re still much too fast to escape from on foot, as we have seen on all those videos.
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 1 week ago:
That’s why education isn’t just some nice-to-have luxury. Moments like these should make people go “wait, maybe it’s a shitty idea that conservatives like the Trump regime oppose proper, widely available and cheap education for everyone”.
I sometimes wonder how many lives would not have been lost if those people had known “sea magically disappear from beach mean big wave coming” when that Indian ocean tsunami happened.
Knowledge can save your life.
- Comment on tonight is the night i drink scotch 2 weeks ago:
I kinda prefer nosing glasses over tumblers.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
It would fall at 2g, because two Earth-sized masses attract each other in that case. With smaller objects it’s just 1g, because the mass of, let’s say, a nice cup of tea is negligible compared to the mass of Earth.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
An image of two men who don’t exist.
- Comment on Truck go 💥🚚 1 month ago:
Awww look at it, how cute, it wants belly rubs.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 month ago:
Well, I had my 18th birthday in 1994 and I put everyone off since then.
- Comment on Llama 1 month ago:
- Comment on Right... 1 month ago:
I’m guessing he hasn’t consulted qualified people about his idea. Because those would have told him FUCK NO, don’t do it. Which puts him firmly into the category of deserved Darwin Award candidate.
- Comment on Right... 1 month ago:
That is all true, but desperation combined with a bad understanding of scientific facts and the unwillingness to at least make sure injecting your own semen isn’t a very bad idea, that’s no excuse.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 1 month ago:
In Germany, we call it “Wörtschestascheiasoße” and I think that’s beautiful.
- Comment on It's almost here 1 month ago:
Americans using Fahrenheit always make me think of this sketch by John Finnemore.
- Comment on Right... 1 month ago:
Okay, so, I like humanism, I don’t want people to die and all that.
But am I an asshole for secretly wishing they’d just let Darwin Award winners like this one remove themselves from the gene pool?
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 2 months ago:
Get out of there as soon as you can. Always remember these moments. When your dad gets old and needs your help, tell him “only removeds need their sons to do stuff for them”.
- Comment on Stop acting entitled and just live your own life 2 months ago:
My God (I shall use upper case for him from now on because that somehow makes him seem more imposing) says all I have to do is find something in the scriptures that I can somehow reinterpret to mean exactly what I need to justify any of my arguments.
So, I hereby declare that I can certainly do that, because it says so in the holy scriptures: “At least it’s good to be on the winning side.” (Mother Goose & Grimm, April 29, 2001, Panel 4)
- Comment on Stop acting entitled and just live your own life 2 months ago:
Wait, so you’re telling me that if I pretend to believe in an imaginary being, I can feel special?
It sounds tempting. Can I also attack anyone personally if they question my belief as if they’ve attacked me as a person?
And I also always really wanted to tell people that they hate god, even though they say he doesn’t even exist. I’m sure this somehow violates every law of logic in existence, but I really want to.
Can I justify killing people for believing in the same god as me but slightly different?
Also, well, this one is a bit odd: I have this urge to tell people who they are allowed to have sex with. If your belief allows me to do all this, I’m on board.
- Comment on Stop acting entitled and just live your own life 2 months ago:
Here’s a crazy idea, hear me out: What if there is no god?
- Comment on missing 2 months ago:
You should try my cheeseburger, brother.
Patties are beef mixed with unholy amounts of shredded parmeggiano. Add extra mature cheddar. Glazed onions. Sour pickle. German extra strong mustard. And bacon marmalade.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 2 months ago:
His wife was shocked when she saw that picture because she had no idea he’s a Coldplay fan.
- Comment on Don't mess with me bro 3 months ago:
Americans think Big Bang Theory is the funniest sitcom ever, and whenever a foreign word sounds like a funny English one, they lose their shit. And then they tell Germans about their sense of humor…