Gavin Palmer

@Jacobionite What is hate? Is it different from having preferences? If they are different, how can you see the difference in yourself? How can you see the difference in someone else? I think it's immoral to love any nation more than God and my view can be interpreted as hateful/antisemitic.

It is honestly difficult to know whether it is best to simply ignore this type of article, to applaud the tiny grains of truth, or condemn the mountains of motivated bias against Israel. Twitter is probably the worst place for this, but let's introduce some nuance. Obviously torture is bad and sexualized torture is worse. It is literally impossible to wage a war at scale without having some people commit atrocities. Which is one of the many reasons war is a last resort. That doesn't mean that any atrocities committed should be covered up or in any way excused. It does mean that no intelligent human being should be surprised. That is why moral governments have instruments to prosecute such things when they happen. Which makes all the difference here for everyone except the fool who wrote this article. To write this article without a deep dive into the Sde Teiman affair is absolutely unconscionable journalistic malpractice. But here we are. All he does is talk about Ben Gvir, of course. He makes no distinctions other than to put his thumb on the scale by saying that Israel receives funds from the United States as if it is the only country in the world which does. Do we really need to talk more about bachebazi again? Mark my words. This type of antisemitic holding Jews to impossible standards is precisely what fuels Ben Gvir's rise. Increasingly, Israelis are starting to play by Middle East rules. Might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb, some say. Of course, people will misconstrue everything I write to be excuse instead of explanation. I excuse nothing of the inevitable failures of my fellow human beings, Jew or gentile. My concern is an operational society with an operational justice system. The blatant antisemitism of the international order is a danger most of all to the Palestinians it purports to help. All this article achieves is to confirm people's priors. Those who hate Israel will see it as confirmation. Those who know that the people who hate Israel will never be satisfied will see it as confirmation. What nobody is willing to seriously confront is the real issue. Israel is situated in the Middle East. As long as the world insists that Muslims in the Middle East can act atrociously while Jews in the Middle East must be seen as the source of all atrocity, this situation will continue to victimize the innocent civilians in the Middle East the most. This article is just digging the hole deeper. I wish, I only wish, that intelligent people see it for what it is.

@GrimGriz Snakes have been around far longer than that.

We've been controlled by a hostile state since JFK died?

@battleangelviv Jesus is the Truth. Pray our AI seeks and finds Jesus.

AI morality should be grounded in durable principles like being maximally truth seeking, enabling human agency, freedom of thought + humility under uncertainty Instead of inheriting the moral fashion of the moment and mistaking it for truth

@MatthewKetterm2 I prefer the word "deprioritize" here instead of hate.

@Hero_LFG @grok Correct it is a passage about idolatry, not that you aren't commanded to love.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."

@MatthewKetterm2 @grok claude.ai/share/d31e0baf…

@MatthewKetterm2 @grok From Claude: μισέω in Jesus's mouth almost certainly renders an Aramaic word carrying the Hebrew שָׂנֵא (sane') — and in Semitic usage that word functions as a comparative or preferential term, not primarily an emotional one. "Hate" in this idiom means love less, rank below...

@MichaelLouisTh1 @Jacobionite All of creation is inspired.

@Jacobionite Frameworks aren’t supposed to last. You just open up the Bible and make new ones from scratch every few decades. The fact that it works is proof that scripture is inspired.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 This man is an ignoramus of epic proportions. I have generally held my tongue for various reasons, including that I was at an event at his church. But he clearly has lost his mind.

@realDonaldTrump But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

@conservmillen But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I cannot even imagine. 😭 pray for Erika. Andrew Kolvet, too.

@GrimGriz My take is that the ones who will never accept the invitation get destroyed because of mercy.

Regarding Christianity as Presented: A non-zero number of people will end up in hell. Every day for the last 1993 years, that number has gone up. The longer Jesus doesn't return, the more people end up in hell. Doesn't really jive with omnibenevolence.

@GrimGriz @Jacobionite Old habits die hard :)

@Hero_LFG @Jacobionite Carlinism was my first major religion

Feel Good Film of the Yar

@GrimGriz @Jacobionite Reminds me of Carlin. youtube.com/shorts/GEjRkwD…

@Hero_LFG @Jacobionite I've shifted to seeing the tragedy of human ignorance as a joke instead of a problem

@annielcrawford If I try to represent an ideal version of the AI advocate, I'd say that they are willing to take on debt now so that they can pay it off later. Everyone in the software industry (I am in software) is aware of a concept called technical debt. It's like financial debt in ways.

I have zero respect for any AI advocate who does not address the serious environmental issues involved. We cannot continue to ignore what we are doing to the actual physical world we live in.

I transformed Pastoral Care by Gregory the Great into two different albums: Watchman: youtube.com/playlist?list=… The Art of Arts: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Non-Musical Version: youtu.be/TSHBRl7ah4Q?si…

The Power of Blessing, Kerry Kirkwood. play.google.com/store/books/de…

I've been reading a book on blessings and curses. Just caught myself calling myself stupid. I then tried again and called my brain slow. I tried again and said my brain needs sleep. I finally landed on something more like a blessing: our brains benefit from rest.

A friend recently pointed me towards Psalm 23 and because I'm not good at reading poetry and suspect others aren't either I decided to create some songs based on Psalms 23-24 which attempts to speak to a variety of audiences. rightinchrist.com/music/the-tabl…