@LDS_Dems @JoelMCurzon Approximately no one has ever thought “I’m not sure if it’s true so I’m going to reject all the good things”
But I can see how framing it that way would make you feel better about it.
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Jake
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@JoelMCurzon "I know it makes every part of my life better and I believe it to be true" is a remarkably rational thought.
"I am not sure if it is true so I am going to reject all the good things it has brought into my life" is a thought that is tough to understand
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“It doesn’t really matter if the central claims of my religious faith are true, as long as it makes me happy.”
If you think like this, you and I are very different. I cannot respect this position at all. Sorry.
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Can’t help but read all his tweets in the Dwight Schrute voice
Stephen Miller@StephenM
Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.
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@JakeO886 @_utilitysports No doubt but I just wanted to make it clear that Boston wasn’t hoarding lottery picks to make a team. They drafted two foundational players they were able to get from a trade made years before and built around them with complimentary pieces via drafts and trades.
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The Utah Jazz have more top 5 picks on their current roster than the OKC Thunder do
Maybe it’s not just the lottery’s fault that there isn’t equality of outcomes
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@_utilitysports I get that Boston acquired the picks via trade, but they still benefited from lottery luck/top 5 picks.
Spurs got Wemby… and Castle… and Harper.
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Boston has 2 top 5 picks on their roster… and get this… neither of them came as a result of their own tanking! They got high draft choices from a genius trade
Spurs are an outlier because they got the top pick in the year with the best draft prospect in the history of sports
Jake@JakeO886
@_utilitysports Now do San Antonio and Boston. Also, how many of the Jazz top 5 picks are in their prime?
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@holl6948 @_utilitysports Yes, and do you think they’d be contending without those two top 5 picks? Top end talent is what wins in the NBA and it often takes a high draft pick to get that.
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@JakeO886 @_utilitysports Boston only has two former top 5 picks. Everyone else is a late first rounder all the way down to undrafted.
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Donald Trump, at almost 80, is going to die sooner than we think.
Bookmark this. When Trump passes, there will be an absolute ORGY of grotesque delight on the Left and even among moderates. They will celebrate in the streets and hold parties. It will be a macabre display, such as we've never seen yet.
It will make their celebration of Charlie Kirk's murder look like your great aunt Mildred's church tea party.
Mark my words.
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@VoteTrevorLee There are countless examples of successful companies saying things just like this, and explicitly stating that diversity is a strength.
It must be such a burden to be as stupid as you are.
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Diversity is not our strength.
"The less we have in common, the stronger we are!"
Said no successful team, company, or society ever.
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So much for following the data.
Dan McClellan@maklelan
Just as a brief heads-up, many Bible scholars refer to biblical books as "Two Corinthians" or "One John," so criticizing Trump for that doesn't score many points. We should stick to his rape & pedophilia & misogyny & racism & corruption & incompetence & malice & stupidity & etc.
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@stackerco Definitely some under-diagnosis, but I think congruence is also a factor. The religious find that in religious societies, yet Scandinavia shows high happiness and low mental health struggles too, where the non-religious find congruence in non-religious societies.
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Oh yeah. The "convicted felon" shtick. Despite the "trial" having violated about 12 different constitutional standards and will be formally overturned later this year by the NY Supreme Court.
Hating Trump is forever. Bless your heart.
Stella Parton@StellaParton
I will not watch a convicted felon stand before us for the SOTU address. How dare this country succumb to this madness!
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@ThoughtfulSaint Progression does require change though. And I gave examples of how moral standards have progressed beyond what God had previously “revealed”
God’s moral progression always follows that of the people he reveals it to. There’s a reason for that.
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He needs to go further and realize his atheism has lead him to where the notion of "Good" is just culturally conditioned. If he were born in Rome he would have no problem with rape and slavery and he has no good reason to say why Roman morality is worse than his modern western moral compass.
Keep going @stackerco keep deconstructing. Eventually you will deconstruct atheism.
stacker@stackerco
I’ve doubted and peeled back inherited beliefs and assumptions like: Institutional authority Scriptural literalism Prophetic certainty Doctrinal metaphysics And what remains? Consciousness Experience The fact that I am aware Being good and doing good
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@ThoughtfulSaint If there are forces for Good and for Evil, and it is also the nature of humans to choose the evil, doesn’t that imply that God is less capable of influencing people?
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“Live out your most authentic self” - Jesus probably.
David Hayward | Artist@nakedpastor
All the queer people I know I consider to be very brave individuals. They are an inspiration to me to be and live out my most authentic self with courage.
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@ThoughtfulSaint Why not just use gender and sex as they are defined by scientific and linguistic consensus?
Sex is binary. Gender is not.
Does accurate framing make it too difficult for you to justify your hate?
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There are men
There are women
There are men with deformations
There are women with deformations
There are only 2 genders.
Sam@SamMcConkie
@ThoughtfulSaint Jacob, my sister in law was born with an extra chromosome. That’s not a fairy tale; that’s biology.
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Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director “Melania”)
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@a_diamond3 Yeah, fining a time coming off consecutive wins for “not prioritizing winning” is wild, end especially when teams like the wizards and kings are throwing half the season
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@JakeO886 I can’t figure it out either. NBA is basically saying, just don’t even try to put a team on the floor.
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Need someone to explain to me like I’m 5 how playing guy 3/4 of a game (and winning 2/3) is prioritizing draft position over winning, but sitting them out entirely or shutting them down for the season isn’t.
Tim MacMahon@BannedMacMahon
The NBA fined the Jazz ($500,000) and the Pacers ($100,000) due to “management of their rosters for recent games.”
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