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- Comment on Daily Affirmation 6 days ago:
Not the guy you’re replying to but the first half of your argument is silly. If I said “Everyone on Lemmy likes Star Trek.”, would you still demand that every exception be named or would you understand that I was talking in generalities?
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 week ago:
As far as I’m aware, most people who think the world is naturally just think that such justice comes slowly, and with wild swings away and towards justice happening in the mean time. So you still need to turn the ideal of justice into reality in the mean time either way.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 2 weeks ago:
You have to be really careful to distinguish between the position that the canon is temporarily, functionally closed and that it is closed permanently. You can definitely find plenty of people who support the strict position, but I believe that it is less popular than the looser position overall, especially when looking outside of Christian apologetics circles.
There’s a few good reasons to think that the canon is only temporarily closed, not permanently closed:
- The Bible wasn’t canonized or seen as a single book until after Revelation was written, so it is unlikely that John had the whole Bible in mind.
- Revelation says that the restriction is on “the book of this prophecy”, i.e., the book of Revelation itself. Even if you correctly consider that “prophecy” is more than just foretelling, there are parts of the Bible that don’t count as that.
- If you read them carefully, you’ll see that Deuteronomy and Proverbs do not say anything against saying God’s words in a different way or recontextuallizing them to apply them to a different situation. The problem only comes about if you change the meaning of the message.
- At least according to both Claude and GPT, the idea of a strict closure didn’t take root until the Reformation (about 1.5 millennia later).
- A non-strict interpretation fits better with the fact that the story of the Bible is not yet finished. If the story is unfinished then it’s likely that God will do more works which ought to be recorded. For example, it would probably be helpful to the people living through the great tribulation to know what the actual history was that led up to that event.
- Comment on Happy Holidays!🎁🛍️ 4 weeks ago:
At my store shoplifters would take stuff out of boxes and packaging and hide them in random places. On a per capita basis they were probably messier than normal shoppers.
- Comment on how does it happen every time 4 weeks ago:
So Maltese and Shih Tzus? The earliest date I saw for either of those was 1000 BC and according to Answers in Genesis, the most prominent young earth creation group, Noah’s flood happened at 2300 BC. That means that the meme’s intuition is correct and God never told Noah to bring them on the ark, Christianity is saved!
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 5 weeks ago:
linguists have estimated something like 31,000 languages have existed in human history (and that’s the lowest estimate). Currently, there are roughly six thousand languages spoken in the world. We don’t know exactly, because we’re just beginning to classify some languages in remote locations. But using conservative figures, something like 81% of all human languages have become extinct.
What worries linguists, however, is the current rate of language death in the world. Over half the languages spoken today have fewer than 10,000 speakers; that’s about like the population of Wasilla, Alaska. Around 82% of languages have fewer speakers than there are people in Waco, Texas. Linguists estimate that at least half the world’s languages will become extinct in the next one hundred years. That means, on average, a language is dying about every two weeks.
Taken from > a page on the University of Houston’s website.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 5 weeks ago:
Is this actually a thing rich people say? I’ve never heard it said before.
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 5 weeks ago:
Most fish have teeth, actually.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 1 month ago:
In case you didn’t know, diorite is a real type rock as well that is similar to granite.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
According to the newspaper this came from, The Times of India, this is a photoshopped image with the original saying “meet” instead of “mate”.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 6 months ago:
You have an interesting method of not asking in disrespect, so I’ll just reply this once and leave it at that.
Christianity is based largely around the idea of faith. If God made it so plainly obvious what he was doing that there were no competing views or religions, then Christianity could no longer be about faith.
So how do we know when we are putting our faith in the right thing? Well that would come down to various other factual arguments that, when taken in unison, point to the reliability of the Bible. I, for one, like the minimal facts case for the resurrection and the fact of all the manuscript evidence showing that the message of the Bible is effectively the same as it was in the early church.
I do think that these claims are correct, hence why I am a Christian. Whether or not everyone else in the world is wrong or not doesn’t really matter here, though, of course, it should make one cautious
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 6 months ago:
It’s an interesting enough read, however, the only thing I saw that was indicative of Christian belief was his desire to create and lead a church. However, plenty of cult leaders have already done the same. What makes him a real Christian and not just another brand of cultist along the lines of Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses?
I see JP’s public presentation of Christianity as actively steering people away from what it really is. He focuses far too much on a mythologized, deistic form of Christianity and far too little on the beliefs that set Christianity apart. So, regardless of what he might think he believes in secret, I will continue believing, until things change, that someone who has intentionally given such a flawed interpretation for as long as he has cannot truly be called a Christian.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 6 months ago:
I’m a Christian myself and have listened to a couple of Peterson’s lectures on the Bible and I see him as someone who approaches the Bible with the mind of a conspiracy theorist or a New Age believer. He makes grand claims while using a handful of loosely related facts to support his beliefs and could care less about using a more rigorous approach. To him, any and all notable pieces of imagery in the Bible actually play important archetypal roles for fundamental principals in our grand cosmic reality
In fact I believe JP has outright said that he doesn’t actually believe in the truth of the Bible, that he is at least agnostic towards an actual God, and that he instead uses Christianity more as a vehicle for understanding his own set of beliefs. So, to answer your question, you could fairly call him a Cultural Christian, but it would be very unfair to call him an actual Christian.
- Comment on how did you and your partner change after having a baby? 7 months ago:
As someone who’s been very happily married for a fairly long time now, I’d just like to quickly emphasize to everyone the point about being quicker to forgive than to judge. Love isn’t about constantly being high on happiness but about having such a deep connection with someone that you treat them as you would treat yourself. The golden rule is called the golden rule for a reason. The happiness you are chasing will come naturally.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 7 months ago:
Despite the conversion, the vehicles used stay largely the same, so cars are now converted to using railways and trains to using interstates, etc.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 7 months ago:
However, the keyword is average. Sometimes you are extraordinarily good, and sometimes extraordinarily bad, but on the whole the average is slightly above.
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 7 months ago:
More than likely not AI: sketchingscience.org
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 7 months ago:
According to what I’ve read, the leading theory among scholars today is that this passage is a reference to pagan Canaanite rituals and we have some evidence in the literature of the time that this was indeed practiced.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It’s not religion that’s the problem but ideology and lazy thinking in general. How many people in the political parties we oppose just accept the lies being fed to them with no critical thought or investigation?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 8 months ago:
From what I understand, vinyl records are often mastered differently than digital recordings, and they do have a bit of a different sound overall due to their mechanical nature (like how different headphones can produce vastly different results.) So vinyl could very well be actually better depending on the mix, and depending on the preferences of the person listening.
- Comment on No title 9 months ago:
Took a while to find it, but this is Tim Hewes who was accused of helping plan a Just Stop Oil protest.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 9 months ago:
Wait, there’s actual context behind the bean memes? I’ve been missing out.
- Comment on Tasty beavers 11 months ago:
For the uninitiated, beavers have a gland that secretes castoreum from near their butt that they use to mark their territory. Castoreum is said to taste like vanilla.
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 11 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an AI or other automated system blocking it, because an outright block instead of a shadow ban seems unlikely to have been done by human hands. But that just indicates that there are systemic issues or biases that clearly favor one party over the other, and that’s not much better.
- Comment on Checking in 11 months ago:
What is the meaning of this?
- Comment on Domination 1 year ago:
- Comment on NOT A TOY 1 year ago:
Tardigrades are effectively invisible to the naked eye, so it might be rather disappointing.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 1 year ago:
An Internet meme, or meme (/miːm/, “MEEM”), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs, and other viral content. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
In conclusion, it is a meme, but it’s debatable how much of a meme it actually is.
- Comment on Petrichor 1 year ago:
Why would we need such a strong sensitivity to it?
- Comment on But thats all Dan Harmon 1 year ago:
Me