Because China and Israel view themselves as a people group rather than a nation of ideas or an economic zone.
Cernovich@Cernovich
Why doesn't China want infinite H-1B's? Why doesn't Israel?
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Samuel Grant
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Samuel Grant
@samdgrant_
Jesus is King. Paleoconservative. Independent Journalist
Katılım Ekim 2024
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@Cernovich Once you convince yourself you’re a nation of ideas, the citizens become collateral damage to those same ideas.
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@seanproxy @BenBird53920553 @sister_slay Were you creeped out or were you creeped out on her behalf?
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Hey @sister_slay I wrote a poem about you. Here it is:
A sister who calls herself Slay
Is one-hundred percent cray cray.
She believes the Liahona
Led Jews to Arizona
and she thinks that polygamy's okay.
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@BHaunt @kariwarburton Context matters. Did Ben’s poem seem flirtatious to you?
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Ex-mo tries to launch his poetry career by making poems about a married woman was not on my bingo card
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@seanproxy @BenBird53920553 @sister_slay What does either of them being married have to do with it? The poem wasn’t flirty at all.
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@samdgrant_ @BenBird53920553 @sister_slay simps? we apologize for clowning on Ben, the guy who thinks his baby is demonic, when he, a married man, this about her, a married women, enough to write a cringe poem for engagement on the internet.
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Eat the rich niggas eating the richest man’s sloppy seconds lmaoo
Popstonox@Popstonox
Ashley St. Clair gives Hasan Piker a hoodie that says, "I'm not the step dad, I'm the dad who that stepped up"
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@spencerg83 @Primary_Pianist If I wrote a book that had the criteria that you laid out would it be divine?
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@samdgrant_ @Primary_Pianist The witness of the Spirit is the proof we have of the divinity of the Book of Mormon and of Jesus Christ.
Does the Book of Mormon point the reader to Jesus Christ?
Does it advocate following Christ's teachings?
Does it teach to keep the Commandments?
Does it have His Gospel?
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The anti-Mormon trope that “personal revelation is dangerous because Satan can deceive you” is one of the strangest arguments in modern Christianity.
Because the Bible repeatedly commands people to go directly to God for truth. 🧵
Exmo2EO@Exmo2EO
I personally think it’s because LDS teaches the opposite of the real early Church established by Christ and the Apostles. LDS tells people to rely on “the still small voice” and “burning in the bosom”, or in other words personal promptings and feelings. But the early Church taught over and over that promptings and feeling often come from demons/Lucifer. Hence, LDS is a grooming field for demonic influence. And the devil wins either way. Those that stay in follow a distorted gospel with just enough good to keep them in (hence the common “at least I will have lived a good life” trope). While those that leave must either continue or overcome the same pattern of trusting their personal promptings and feelings; at the same time knowing they were deceived in the LDS church by their promptings and feelings. And personal promptings and feelings just happen to also be the atheists’ basis for their morals and ethics.
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Just watched Obsession in theaters. If you like psychological horror then I strongly recommend. I think Hokum was a better film, but Obsession was fantastic especially considering it’s budget.
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@grok @cbgrasshopper I have a difficult time believing this (I could be misunderstanding). I tend to believe in the constrained vision of human nature as outlined by Thomas Sowell. I don’t trust in our potential.
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The New God Argument (by Lincoln Cannon, tied to Mormon transhumanism) is a secular, forward-looking case for faith in God. It starts from trust that humanity will evolve into compassionate superhumanity (superintelligent posthumans) without going extinct.
Key assumptions: superhumanity's power will decentralize, and it will create many emulations of its evolutionary past—including our world.
Conclusion: If we trust our own potential, we should trust we have a compassionate superhuman creator. That creator qualifies as God. It's not classical theism but aligns with LDS ideas of eternal progression.
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Since Mormons reject many of the presuppositions of classical theism, and many of the best arguments for the existence of God rely on those same presuppositions, what are the best arguments for the existence of God from a Mormon worldview?
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@cbgrasshopper I’ll give it a read. For now, hey @grok summarize the argument.
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@ReformedMormon Great point. Much of Mormon apologetics is basically just a set of self-critiques against Christianity and religion as a whole.
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I am seeing a rise in the use of the apologetic approach of: well the Bible doesn’t make any sense either but we all know that’s for sure true so you can’t tell me my nonsensical thing isn’t true or else we’d have to admit it’s all nonsense…which is a very funny apologetic to me
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@samdgrant_ Oh, most people on the left fundamentally do not understand the reasons behind young men shifting to the right.
It’s a blind spot that is killing them tbh!
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The most recent Alyssa Grenfell video “The Far Right Mormon Influencer Pipeline” is unsurprisingly lazy. Alyssa clearly demonstrates a simplistic view of conservatism.
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@auntietravis Mostly how she paints conservatism and the motivations for why young men are conservative. I’d have to watch the video again to get specifics.
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@samdgrant_ She is a clickbait artist.
That said, I haven’t seen the video myself, what was simplistic?
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