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spike grotto
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Gen Xers have a new anthem!
This is too funny. I do love the early bird dinner prices though!
Sound UP!
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@PathOfMen_ Congratulations, you have been blessed with the opportunity to give your trust to Christ Jesus. You have nothing left to hold you back now. Stop clinging to your own understanding. You know it doesn't work. Make God's will match yours. Be His instrument on earth. Do it now.
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To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now
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@NMoonitz Well, honey its like this: Democrats know almost all black people vote for them, so they figure if they draw a line around where all the black people live, they will win elections inside that line. Now don't tell anyone else I told you this or they will put me in jail for racism.
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Explain it to me like I’m five.
How are black Americans going to be denied representation if they have the exact same voting rights as every other citizen?
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@justalexoki 3 months clean. This after 40 years almost daily. Got really comfortable with that sin until it nearly killed me. I was sobbing in the shower one day and asked for God's help because I could not stop it myself. Putting my trust in Him and humbling myself was all it took.
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@RepShriThanedar You look like if Micheal Cera was a recovering burn victim
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My favorite kind of abortion is the kind that's safe, legal, accessible, and none of your damn business to regulate.
And no amount of fearmongering by describing what goes on to a half-ounce fetus with no consciousness, self-awareness, or feeling of pain is going to change that.
Brandon Gill@realBrandonGill
Which abortion is your favorite? The one where the unborn baby's body is crush and sucked out with a hose or the one where the baby is cut apart with a knife? Please enlighten us.
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@SimmonsBart Ok so if she didn't have those credentials, would it be archaic and chauvinistic then? Why include this?
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Every morning before sunrise, we get up together, brew a fresh pot of coffee, sit and talk, and read our Bibles. As I get ready for work, my wife begins her work with a grateful heart and bakes eight loaves of sourdough bread using a 100-year-old starter. The night before, she stretches and folds the dough by hand. This is our tradition—a simple, faithful rhythm that reminds us every day of God’s faithful provisions. She does it for our thirteen grandchildren, our dear friends, and the customers who count on her bread. Occasionally she makes a batch of buttermilk sourdough biscuits from my grandmother’s old recipe, and every warm bite feels like a blessing straight from the Lord.
Some folks will read this and roll their eyes, calling it archaic or chauvinistic, but they don’t know my wife. She’s college-educated with a degree in accounting, a successful business owner, a seasoned bridge player, well-read, and she can still saddle her own horse and ride with the best of them. This is simply who we are—grateful, grounded, and blessed.
2SRanch.com
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@Dexerto I usually say "I'd like a McDirty, please" when I order a McFlurry and it has never failed, not once. I suppose now I will be receiving a Dr. Pepper when I do this. Bother.
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@politicalmath By this metric Trump has had like 6 million assassination attempts.
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The 11 Obama "assassination attempts" include (not making this up)
- a Hispanic man shot 25 rounds at the White House from his truck when Obama was in another state
- an accountant was at a waffle house when he said he wanted to kill Obama
- an extremist Irish Islamist gave an interview to a major newspaper and said he wished that he could assassinate Obama
- a "death ray" plot in which 2 rednecks planned to use x-rays to kills Obama (and also Jews)
- a Walking Dead actress sent Obama a letter with ricin in an attempt to incriminate her husband
Tyler Black, MD@tylerblack32
Obama: 11, including a guy who fired 25 rifle rounds at the White House. Biden: 5, including one arrested 4 miles from his house with an AR-15 and a checklist ending "execute." Harris: 2 federal prosecutions. Clinton: a pipe bomb intercepted at her home and a militia.
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@RebeccaMtn @Devon_Eriksen_ Right. And what is this big, important purpose you want to serve for all eternity?
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This thing that's always been a problem for me is getting from: "The universe is so complex and ordered that God must have created it"
to: "Jesus is God and he wants you to worship him in heaven for eternity where there's no sin and you can never leave and you an never die"
And I'm supposed to want that?
Which is why when they usually switch to threats of eternal torment in Hell if I don't want to exist as a strange non human entity with no other purpose for all eternity than praising God.
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Every time I start to think Reddit Atheists are the most annoying creatures on the planet, Twitter Christians come along to remind me that they won't be outdone that easily.
What is it about living in a social media bubble that makes people like Spencer assume that no one is familiar with arguments they have been repeating for decades?
What, exactly, does he expect us to say?
"Oh my ears and whiskers! I never knew cells were complicated! This changes everything because I have absolutely no preexisting mental model for how this might happen! I guess this is conclusive proof that Jesus Christ died for our sins after all!"
Frankly, being addressed with a midwit zinger, as if I were an idiot, doesn't shake my worldview in the least. It just makes me lose a great deal of respect for the person who thought it would.
Seriously, Spencer. Not your finest hour.
Spencer A. Klavan@SpencerKlavan
Has anyone done a wellness check on the atheists since this dropped
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@BullandBaird Exactly 7 times. I refuse to be under 6 feet.
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You have a button you can press.
Each time you press it you get $1 million but you also lose 1 inch of height.
how many times are you pressing it?
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@CSReidd @waitbutwhy Bullshit. Women will virtue signal in a meaningless online poll. If this was real, and they knew for certain they could really die as a result, women would race to the red button. Bet on that.
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The best way to piss off both the “blue because I’m a good person” and “red because I’m a smart person” crowds is to explain that you’re a “red because I’m a coward” person
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Suddenly standing alone in the room, I begin by imagining humanity banding together and blue winning in a landslide, and I feel a rush of pride. Red is the genocide button. Blue is the “save humanity from this nightmare” button. I know what kind of person I am. As my hand hovers over the blue button, I can’t help but imagine a gun pointing at my head with a bullet in one of the chambers. I feel a surge of fear shoot through my body. Then I think about all the other people staring at the blue button and thinking the same thing. Surely some of those who initially decided to press blue will succumb to the fear. It starts to feel like a gun with two loaded chambers. A stronger pulse of terror. The more I think about it, the more I worry about other people thinking about it. My heart races. Then I look at the red button—a gun with no bullets in it. A glorious feeling of relief washes over me. Will I hate myself forever if blue wins because enough others were better and braver than me? But don’t I owe it to my family to protect myself? One vote won’t change anything anyway, right? It’s all irrelevant because the mammal I live in has already made up its mind. I wince and press red.
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@CSekiyo @GarrettPetersen So you never understood it, huh? Still don't?
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@GrottoSpik13252 @GarrettPetersen "removing the fact that somewhere short of half the population dies if red wins doesnt actually change the hypothetical at all"
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There is a black button. Everyone in the world gets a chance to press the button or walk away. If at least half of people decide to press the button, nothing happens. If fewer than half of people press the button, everyone who pressed it dies.
Do you press the black button?
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@FelineEntity Pushing the red button does not kill people. It just opts you out of risking your life. The person who invented the buttons and the ones who pressed the blue button are the ones killing people.
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This is a wonderful question btw.
The logical answer is red.
However, humans aren't perfectly logical creatures.
So the empathetic answer is blue, because red WILL kill people.
Will you stay logical and kill? Or will you stay empathetic and risk your life?
It's a great conundrum.
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@REDavidson3 @subsonic_flow @S_W_Somerville @GarrettPetersen Yes, most people are pretty stupid. It is exactly the same outcome.
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@subsonic_flow @S_W_Somerville @GarrettPetersen Except that moral intuition (of most people) assigns different moral weight to action and inaction.
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@salt_icxc Ok fine but I do not have to worship them either
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Freddie Mercury must have never seen It's a Wonderful Life
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@waitbutwhy Congrats to all the blue button pushers! Glad you did not die and I wish you continued success in all the future retarded things you do!
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@airleygames @Devon_Eriksen_ They are the same. Red button does nothing but opt out of the experiment. Imagine there is no red button. How does that change what happens to blue button pressers?
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@Devon_Eriksen_ The original scenario is mandatory. This is optional. Thus they are fundamentally different.
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You are offered a pill.
Anyone who takes the pill, dies, unless over 50% of humanity takes the pill.
Obviously, you cannot be affected by the pill if you don't take it.
Is the same moral scenario as the red and blue buttons?
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