The Consistent Man

@Polymarket Time for a carnivore diet?

NEW: Infectious disease doctor advises avoiding fresh produce — even if washed — as the explosive diarrhea outbreak spreads rapidly throughout the U.S.

I’m getting more and more into chess videos. This is incredible.

If the problem is election fraud, the right and the left must both be in on it.

@SnoopTodd78 @LargeInStature_ Just the Sacrament part. Not the meeting part.

@LargeInStature_ The only necessary ordinance is sacrament. Just saying.

They should make sacrament 30 minutes too

God is not a name. It’s a designation, a title, a status. There can be many members of the same one God, just as the followers of Christ become the body of Christ. In John 17, Christ prayed that His disciples may be one, just as He was one with the Father. That’s not Physically one, but rather one in spirit and in purpose. That is the exact reason why the Son and the Father are two separate beings, but one God

@_consistent_man If you read the Bible, Genesis 1 talks only about 1 God and not gods. In NT, Jesus said that he and the father are one. These two statesmen contradict what Mormons believe, you either believe the Book of Mormon or the Bible, it can’t be both.

Second one today. The answer is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Unsurprisingly, the true gospel is the most optimistic. And if you truly believe in a loving God, it’s also the most realistic.

@darwintojesus I hated that movie. Possession by an evil spirit. No bueno.

Since it came out people have been raving about the new movie Obsession and after finally watching it, I can see what the hype is about. For those of you unfamiliar with this film the plot is pretty simple. The main character, Bear, is a man obsessed with a woman, Nikki, in his small friend group, and after failing to tell her his real feelings he makes a wish using a "One Wish Willow" that she will love him more than anyone else in the world. The wish comes true, but soon becomes a nightmare as Nikki becomes increasingly unhinged and... obsessed. If you look at the discourse surrounding this movie, you'll see there's a lot of talk about who the real villain is. Is it Nikki? Maybe, she does act totally deranged and even kills people... but most viewers don't think so. After careful reflection, most viewers (and I'm one of them) think the real villain is Bear. He made the wish, and only at the end of the movie does he even attempt to remove it. He knows the real Nikki is suffering tremendously and he doesn't care. He only cares when her bizarre behavior inconveniences him. I could talk about this quite a bit, but what I really want to talk about, and what I haven't seen discussed at all so far regarding this movie... is the importance of free will. Even though it isn't being said, free will is the reason why people think Nikki is not the villain. When Bear makes his wish he strips away Nikki's real autonomy, he removes her free will. Even Bear acknowledges throughout the film that the things Nikki does, the real Nikki wouldn't do. She's just as much a victim of her actions as the other characters are. But this idea is not only true in the film, it's true in our world as well. If someone doesn't have control over their actions and the real ability to do otherwise, how can they be responsible for anything they've done? They simply can't. Without real autonomy and free will, humans are in exactly the same boat as Nikki, we're the victims of our actions. Anything bad we do is not our real choice, any more than Nikki's actions are her real choice. This is where I think atheism faces a serious philosophical challenge. On nearly every atheistic worldview I'm familiar with, genuine free will becomes very difficult to defend. That’s because our thoughts, beliefs, and actions are ultimately the product of forces we don't control. Whether they're determined by an unbroken chain of cause and effect, by the chemistry of our brains, or even by indeterministic events at the quantum level, the result is the same: our choices are not ultimately determined by us. They're determined by factors that happen to us. If that's true, then we're in the same position as Nikki. Her actions weren't really her own because they were being dictated by something outside of her control (the wish). Likewise, if every human action is ultimately the inevitable result of prior physical causes, then no one is the true author of what they do. We become passengers rather than drivers, victims of the forces acting upon us rather than morally responsible agents. The audience instinctively rejects Nikki as the villain because we recognize that someone who has lost genuine control over their actions is not morally responsible for them. But if that principle is true, then it doesn't apply only to Nikki. It applies to everyone if free will is an illusion. In the end, denying genuine free will doesn't just change how we think about choice. It changes how we think about blame, praise, justice, guilt, and moral responsibility itself. Any worldview that rejects free will turns every human into a Nikki, into a victim.

@collinsworth55 And that’s not a bad thing either

@_consistent_man Agreed. Needs to find a new outlet and passion

Shut down all conspiracy theories that he was already hurt before the fight. Can’t do a roundhouse kick with the hurt knee as your planted foot. Too much balance and twist with an ACL injury to do that

Conor was one of the greats, but it seems obvious at this point that his time has passed. His energy and passion could still be a game changer elsewhere. Rarely does coming back after an injury-induced semi-retirement have a positive result.

It’s possible to separate the feelings. You can simultaneously feel empathy for his loved ones and also happy he no longer has an influence within our government. I hate to see anyone die, especially so suddenly. Though similarly to Dick Cheney, Lindsay was a war hawk and I think his personal influence caused many many deaths. The sadness from personal death and the betterment of the nation can both be simultaneously true. There are many in the government you could have similar feelings towards.

Please stop acting happy over Lindsey Graham and pray for his wife and kids.

@JGdeIx17 @poordart Hilarious

@poordart Whatchu mean?? 🤪

Mitch McConnell's silence on Lindsey Graham's passing is deafening

@FriedScones Thank you! I am a blessed girl dad, through and through

@_consistent_man He will. Every child brings their own joy, even when we don’t recognize it in the moment. Congrats on your next baby. Hurrah for eternal families.

My wife is due with our second child next month. Our babies have long lives ahead of them. So much that we don’t and can’t control in their future. But what I can control or influence, I want to help them to have a wonderful and happy life. I can only pray God steps in where I cannot be.

@Scath_na_Gealai @indyfreethink Mine is based on a prophet of God. Yours is based on nothing but your own brain and creeds written by the philosophies of men. By all accounts, my claims are superior in every way

@_consistent_man @indyfreethink Im sorry, but your interpretation is wrong.

@ThorBjornsson_ Does your wife think you’re gay now, because you can’t lift more than anyone else ever has?

511kg. I failed. Roast me in the comments, I deserve it!

@Scath_na_Gealai No one is scared of your horrible and corrupted interpretations of scripture. I honestly just feel bad for you that you view God is such poor light. x.com/_consistent_ma…

The true nature of God scares fake cults. The lies cults tell will never prevail in the Eyes of God. Every knee shall bow, and every tounge will profess he is King of Kings, but not everyone shall be let into the kingdom of heaven.

Perfect example of you having no real understanding of the scriptures. God’s people will always be a peculiar people and most people will not find the gospel in this life. When He says not everyone who says Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, it’s because they must make covenants with Him, repent, be baptized by priesthood authority, and serve and suffer with Him. In other words, just having faith and professing Jesus as your savior and accepting the man-made fictional trinity will not do it. That why we baptize for the dead. After the resurrection and with greater light and knowledge, everyone will have the opportunity to be adopted into the house of Israel. The only thing that will keep them from God is their own pride and agency.

Let me ask you in this LDS fantasy of your's when Jesus says "Matthew 7:13-14 New King James Version The Narrow Way 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 [a]Because narrow is the gate and [b]difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." "Luke 13: 22-33 The Narrow Way 22 And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ 26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ 27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. 29 They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.” 31 [i]On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, “Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.” 32 And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be [j]perfected.’ 33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem." "Matthew 7:21 New King James Version I Never Knew You 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."? Who is right Jesus saying not everyone will be saved, or fake lds prophets who hold no authority whatsoever?

Enter Baptism for the dead: “But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? … If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised…. Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?” In this life or the next, regardless of place or time of birth, everyone will have the opportunity to accept the gospel and be adopted into the house of Israel.

@_consistent_man All of God's children go to heaven. Those who are not adopted into God's family are of their father the devil.

Now do the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

@IanWrisley Doctrinally, that every person will have equal opportunity for salvation, in this life or the next, regardless of the time or place they were born. God is no respecter of persons. The only thing that can keep anyone away from returning to God will be their own agency.

@_consistent_man what do you want to pretend your comment meant?

@IanWrisley You read the comment. And then admitting that you have no knowledge of what you’re talking about, you proceeded extrapolate an incorrect and blatantly ignorant conclusion. The initial extrapolation made you look dumb and your subsequent comment confirmed that you are dumb.

@_consistent_man I don’t need to understand lds. I read your comment. Your solution to the problem of hell is not to affirm that hell is not biblical and is inconsistent with any sort of loving god. Your solution [as presented above] is lds dogma don’t blame me for reading your comment