Sisyphus of Suburbia

@nikicaga Think Malaysia, or Indonesia. There will be religious and secular leaning provinces. Idlib will probably be the most religious. Obviously it’s not going to be Afghanistan or Isis.

Syria bef... wait, AFTER, the Islamic Revolution

If you ever feel like no one cares about you remember some anon cares about “humans” in the abstract and therefore you are cared for. Is this emotionally satisfying? No. Will it make you feel better? Also no.

@47fucb4r8c69323 He was 0.1 shotted

They gave the atheist faith lmao

Gaddafi had torture dungeons and sex slaves. The weapons program he gave up was a joke. The coalition had several nations involved and the US was just one nation of many. Even Iran and Russia said Gaddafi should step down. The Arab league recognized the opposition. If Gaddafi continued to live without intervention he would have become another Assad and you would be whitewashing his crimes.

Gaddafi agreed to this and then he was sodomized to death and now you can buy slaves in Tripoli

@2Philosophical_ Late stage communism… just introduces market reforms because communism is unsustainable. 🇻🇳 Đổi Mới, 🇨🇳 Deng reforms, 🇷🇺 Perestroika.

“Late stage capitalism” is preferable to any stage of communism.

@muslimorthodoxy @InspiringPhilos Three little g gods each distinct with all the great making properties of God? Lol

Wow, I’m so happy that Christians like @InspiringPhilos & others are finally admitting there are 3 Gods. You guys are bringing people to the Lord, best Dawah online right now

@PAHoyeck Perhaps inhumanities.

Very strange that we have departments dedicated to the humanities. What do the other departments teach — extraterrestrialities?

@Archetypical20 @AkyolinEnglish @freemonotheist Where is the cutoff though? How does this apply for intersect change? Sunni to Shia? Deobandi to Salafi? Salafi to breveli?

@AkyolinEnglish @freemonotheist That's a misrepresentation of religious order. It isn't as much as enforcing morality as it is a conducive environment for full expression of the faith.

That just assumes the conclusion. You’re treating conversion as a purely private act with no public or legal dimension, which is precisely what the classical tradition denies. The issue isn’t “freedom to choose” in the abstract, but the legal status of publicly entering and then repudiating a religious order grounded in divine law.

@dannyphiltalk @The_Idol_Killer Well it would just naturally follow from total depravity and unconditional election as per TULIP - do you mean direct quotes from the typical confessions ?

@philomemetic I'm not saying you're wrong - and your reply seems to be compatible with my post - but do you have a source that understands Calvinists as generally denying that humans don't have free will for salvation? I'd like the source to say that somewhat explicitly if possible.

I have to say, one of the most annoying misrepresentations I encounter almost weekly is the claim that anti-Calvinist Christians make, that Calvinists don’t believe humans have free will. Most Calvinists are perfectly comfortable affirming that humans do have free will. Representing them otherwise is a mischaracterization. Even those who concede that Calvinists don’t explicitly deny free will often argue that Calvinists are nonetheless committed to denying it. But these arguments frequently beg the question against compatibilism or otherwise terrible. What’s more, many (though not all) Thomists hold a very similar position on free will, yet they don’t receive the same kind of criticism. Why is that?

I am an atomized westerner

@joshua_goodman_ He’s saying Is Alex speaking with your ex boyfriend ≠ Is your ex boyfriend speaking with Alex For philosophy of language reasons

Tbh. No idea what 47 is trying to get across here. However! Seeing a philosopher study German reminds me of how badly I want to learn German to read Heidegger authentically.

@LegalistsOfGor @47fucb4r8c69323 Thesis. Anti-thesis. Synthesis. Houellebecqianist

@philomemetic @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm an old zilllennial. Hollebecqist.

Ask a Millennial what they are, you'll likely get a word that ends in -an, like American, Jamaican, lesbian, etc. Ask a Gen Z what they are, you'll likely get a word that ends in -ist, like rationalist, optimist, accelerationist, racist, etc. Maybe my generation's cry for individuality was a cry against the human need for belonging and the foolish products thereby.

@Archetypical20 @SamQari Would you be referring to Daniel Haq and his debate with İP for your later observation?

@SamQari True. Having said that there are traditionalist brothers who overcompensate in the other direction by presenting the most illiberal positions possible as 'based'.

@SwipeWright What’s funny is there are indeed Christian flat earthers or those open to it as well(like Jay dyer).

Gotta say, I agree with WLC here. And I don't agree with him on much!

What if the purpose of my life is to promote human stagnancy and decline? What then Pinker? What then? I can’t make my own purpose?

So for Pinker you don’t really “make your own purpose” because conceivable a person could make their life purpose spreading human stagnancy or decline? Furthermore, Pinker’s view just oozes privilege. Some people have no one and their lives are plausibly hopeless but they have their belief in God to keep them going.

It’s difficult to take Pinker seriously about human purpose and meaning without consciousness in his materialist worldview. How did we get from the origin of life to human brains without feelings or purpose in simpler creatures? Why would life start, develop. behave and evolve without feelings? Isn’t the purpose of life to feel good in one way or another? It’s more logical that consciousness preceded life and sparked its origin. We/Pinker can’t explain consciousness through complex brain computation based on cartoon neurons anyway so why not consider it fundamental and prior to life? Penrose OR is the only scientific mechanism for conscious awareness yet proposed. sciencedirect.com/science/chapte… ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jc…