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@DeeWaynee94 In the narrowest sense its only that... But to suggest that somehow a person is opinionated on this point in total isolation of all their other beliefs about the world with it having no carry over is ridiculous. Its trying to win with a dictionary as theists do with scripture.

Atheism is one answer to one question: do you believe any gods exist? No. The rest is just Christians stuffing philosophy, origins, morality and consciousness into the gap because they can’t cope with a definition that doesn’t revolve around their religion.

@ZamurZakwe @mykael_yuddy Because nothing is "objectively" right or wrong. There is no ultimate standard.

@mykael_yuddy I get the points, but here’s the catch, secular frameworks explain how we act, not why harming the innocent is objectively wrong. Empathy, reasoning, social cohesion show mechanisms, but they don’t provide an ultimate standard why suffering is bad in itself, not just inconvenient

Wrong again. The fact that evolution doesn't explain why harm is objectively wrong is not solved by inserting a god, and I'll tell you why: 1) In Moral Philosophy, what you pointed out is known as the Euthyphro Dilemma: is something good because god commands it, or does god...

@ClarkeMicah They get off an hour early too, dont they? Dont hear you complaining that theyre forced to work an hour later for the other half of the year.

Where you waste it in a different way.?Doesn’t really justify forcing millions to start work an hour early for seven long months, does it?

@drterrysimpson Dose em with dexamethasone and send em to a mcdonalds.

I do love it when non-medical people seem to think giving a patient, who is not eating, any food, because they need calories is bad. But, non physicians think that sick kids will just eat carrots, hummus, steak, or whatever. Sometimes we are just happy with any cancer patient getting any calories in any manner.

@ZamurZakwe @Myclubmanolo @street_proff Yeah... cos no person ever gets judgy about other people for their behaviour/dress/diet/wahtever. Hard to imagine how people would have projected such qualities onto a deity.

@Myclubmanolo @street_proff Funny thing is if humans ‘made up’ God, why would we invent a being who holds us accountable, judges sin, and calls out our pride? Sounds way too high-stakes for a human imagination.

In the beginning, men created gods....

@Real___Gabriel @Aella_Girl Total bullshit. Any unmber of technologies can be turned to tyrannical purposes, ai is not special in this regard.

@Aella_Girl Also, there is not one cogent anti-doomer argument in this thread. Besides marginal gains like in healthcare, further uncontrolled AI development will only harm humanity. AI is a tool to create an Orwellian perfect-surveillance tyranny. It is an inherently tyrannical technology.

Just saw the AI doc and came away pissed at the optimists. I sort of expected them to have any argument that actually addressed the x-risk side, but they were basically like 'historically tech is good, people have been worried before but it was fine!' They didn't address at ALL the extremely entry-level concerns of like 'building something smarter than us is a categorically new type of threat'. They just repeated that tech would help humanity. It's especially infuriating cause the most lifelong techno optimists I know ARE the doomers. The x-risk community are the ones who grew up on epic sci-fi fiction and have thought long and hard about what the singularity might bring. One of my friends (who was in the doc) once spent all night carrying ice into a hospital room to preserve the corpse of his friend in a desperate attempt to get him into a cryonics lab. It's real for them! But "AI has promise" is not even close to an adequate response to the extinction threat on the table. Even the AI CEOs in the movie - the ones that are *actually* doing the most acceleration - seemed to at least understand the gravity of the arguments they were engaging with. The optimists in the doc seemed to have domain expertise in their technical fields, but were amateurs. They both are insufficiently visionary and also fail to engage with the actual risk in a practical way. I think they pattern match the "ai might kill us" people onto general woke anti-tech movement, and shout against them from a place of ego. That's the only good explanation I can think of for why they must be beating an activist drum that's so damn empty.

@Stevenbradleyb @NoHolyScripture Both forms are equally valid. Dont blame me for your lack of reading comprehension. The meaning is very plain. Now fuck off.

@FatCannibal @NoHolyScripture Take a course in English 101. Don’t use double negatives “Everything is compatible with religion” Then you go on to use the word “that” but could be describing more than one noun with “that” so which “that” you mean is not clear. That’s how you say things more clearly

All life on Earth, including humans, evolved from a single-celled organism known as the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). Living roughly 3.5 to 4.3 billion years ago, LUCA was a simple, anaerobic, and thermophilic prokaryotic microbe that thrived in harsh environments.

@Stevenbradleyb @NoHolyScripture "nothing is incompatible with religion" I dont know how I say this any clearer.

@FatCannibal @NoHolyScripture Your second sentence is vague. What is incompatible with what ? You could have been far more clear

@Stevenbradleyb @NoHolyScripture I dont know how I could say it any more plainly.

@FatCannibal @NoHolyScripture Not sure what you’re trying to say. Hundreds of millions of Christians believe in evolution. The guy who came up with the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest

@skypilot1979 @McClureShawn Did I say I knew everything? No I did not. Im inquisitive just fine... I want to see the people brought back from the dead, show them to me, not some book of myths.

@FatCannibal @McClureShawn I’m not convinced you have an inquisitive mind since you already know everything. I’ll move on…

Where exactly IS this tomb? Oh, you don't know? You only have 4 ancient, anonymous, unprovenanced CLAIMS of such a tomb, all of which differ in the details? I see. The only "something" that ever came from "nothing" is Christian faith manufactured from the nothing of the Bible.

@skypilot1979 @McClureShawn You are.

@FatCannibal @McClureShawn One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I spend my life listening and responding to inquiries. You’ve never even opened the hood so, who’s the sucker?

@AtheistIts @djairrick They do not, there is no public access. What they ALL do is guess.

@djairrick The API still exists its just not public anymore which is why Creators can still see the exact Dislike amount. All these Extensions do it take the API & make it public again.

Dislikes are fake. The API needed to count these hasn't been available since 2021.

@skypilot1979 @McClureShawn Its a nonsense to claim the book of myths is the proof of the myths. Of course it tells you not to listen to anyone questioning it... just like the used car salesman tells you not to look under the hood. Youre a sucker.

@FatCannibal @McClureShawn Are you a time traveler? I knew this would be your answer because you simply dismiss biblical text. I don’t need to engage. Psalm 1 tells me to avoid cynics and scoffers.

@skypilot1979 @McClureShawn Can I meet this lazarus? See his medical records? Talk to any of the doctors responsible for treating him?

@FatCannibal @McClureShawn Lazarus

@Stevenbradleyb @NoHolyScripture Thats just creationism with more steps. Technically nothing is incompatible with religion since it can make/adapt/insert any old bullshit it wants. What IS incompatible is any explanatory framework that doesnt allow that.

@NoHolyScripture Why do you think evolution and religion are incompatible ? Hundreds of millions of Christian’s believe in evolution

@TBestig @heyMAKWA No, the best strategy is to be one of the bunker guards working for the billionaire... Present day... easy job, not much work, steady pay. Shit hits the fan... now its your bunker.

@heyMAKWA The only reliable strategy for surviving an apocalypse is to build a durable community that you are a genuinely respected member of. This is of course anathema to billionaires

the other problem with bunkers is that either you have to pay people to stay outside and guard it, which is frankly absurd, or someone will come along and fill in your ventilation holes.

@Dolphinstudia @McClureShawn Yeah, many people been to florida and can tell you they met goofy too.

@McClureShawn You’ve never been to the Holy Land have you? Hot tourist spot that shows you where Jesus went. Many people have gone and can testify the legitimacy of the journey. Don’t be so ignorant.

@skypilot1979 @McClureShawn But I can show you any number of lockers. Can prove with ease lockers are a thing even if I cant find a specific one. Now show us someone returned to life after 3 days dead... doesnt have to be jesus, anyone will do.

@McClureShawn That’s like saying “if you can’t tell me about a dream you had 20 years ago, you never had it. If you can’t show me your 7th grade locker, you never had one. You need to do better than this if you want to convince anybody.

@TNG512 @langofmind Its because screw like motions arent a thing you need to perform in the natural environment.

@langofmind The pinky could be turned into a second thumb without losing much. My guess is millions of years of our primate ancestors climbing and swinging from trees. So much easier when you only have to worry about keeping one thumb out of the way.

Five fingers per hand is the primitive condition. We have five fingers because that's how many lobes were on the fins of the fish that became tetrapods. Ever notice how lots of animals have less than five fingers but basically nothing has more? Nature does not like to add stuff

@janicesus @JohnSimpsonNews Israel is well known to use cluster munitions, its well known to target civilians. They get "picked on" because they are a supposed professional army of a democratic, law abiding state.

@JohnSimpsonNews Every single action on Oct 7 was a war crime , cluster bombs are a war crime . Purposely aiming at civilians is a war crime . What is the point of anything anymore when you only pick on one side ?

I’ve had loads of abuse for this, predictably, and plenty of people have accused me of supporting Hezbollah. But no one seems keen to explain why targetting the Lebanese medics who came to help the 3 TV journos was justified.