@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux you might not understand the problem. under materialism you don't get to decide cause and effect doesnt apply. that's the whole point
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Clowning around in clown world, revolting against revolting culture.
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux Uh, no. A human lives a finite life. You could make an equal case that an eternal universe is a logical necessity because a cause must have a former cause. Aristotle, and then Aquinas, dismissed this out of, essentially, inconvenience.
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Because Consciousness is an effect of brain matter, just as gravity is an effect of mass
Cooked Zoomer@cookedzoomer
@StefanMolyneux How is consciousness without a brain a contradiction?
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@AuronMacintyre that's trump's job. get it done for greatest ally abroad and pave the way for bolshevism at home
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There will be no mercy when the Dems return to power
They won’t debate principles, they won’t carefully follow procedure, they won’t respect norms or debate the wisdom of creating new government powers
Rule now or be ruled by people who hate you, those are the options
Morse Report@MorseReport
🚨Top Democrat political consultant and campaign strategist, James Carville, just stated on the Left-wing ‘Policon’ podcast that when the Democrats regain power, they plan to: -Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in the Senate. -Pack the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 Justices up to 13 Justices, adding another 4 Left-wing Justices to the court. -Reopen the U.S.-Mexico border and grant mass-amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the United States. -His advice to Democrat politicians: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
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@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux lol no. presupposing a starting point, physical cause for any effect, is the basis of materialism. it does not support infinite regress, which is a logical impossibility
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux Presupposing a starting point is a fallacy. An infinite/eternal universe would have, by nature, infinite regression of past causes and infinite progression of future causes.
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@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux first cause/infinite regress problem. see aristotle
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux "Materialism contradicts itself because there's no possible starting point" what does this mean?
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@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux by the simplest logic. it offers a framework that does not contradict itself. materialism contradicts itself because there's no possible starting point
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux How does it offer understanding of reality if it cannot make any testable predictions and "defies human comprehension"?
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@newstart_2024 cause he is himself a joke setup, an actor put there to promise walls and no wars. the punchline is us
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Whitney Cummings told this story on Flagrant and it’s honestly one of the best Trump anecdotes I’ve heard.
She roasted him hard at his Comedy Central roast — hair, dick jokes, shady business deals, even four pages on Melania (which was supposed to be off-limits). Trump was cracking up the entire time.
When she stepped off stage, he pulled her close, hand on her lower back, and said: “Fire. That was great television.”
Not “funny.” Not “mean.” Great television. He understood the moment perfectly — he played upset, leaned into the drama, and turned the whole thing into entertainment gold. They were both in on the game.
She added that he later asked for her number… and then never called.
It’s a tiny window into how Trump sees the world: attention is everything, and everything is content.
What’s the wildest behind-the-scenes celebrity roast or interaction story you’ve ever heard that completely flipped how you saw someone?
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@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux it's the only model for understanding the nature of reality. materialism can only explain internal mechanics of the reality
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux That's interesting but you can't make any testable predictions on hypotheses that are entirely beyond comprehension, so that's not a better model. Materialist explanations can be extraordinarily useful.
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@JenelopeJohnson @StefanMolyneux created realm whose true nature defies human comprehension. because of first cause paradox
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@GallowsHumorMag @StefanMolyneux What's a superior explanation and why?
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@AuronMacintyre Man, you really hate American dominance and strong foreign policy, dontcha?
And no, none of this is or has stopped focusing on the home front. Don't be a retard, though I know that's hard for you.
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@StefanMolyneux This is misleading. About 75% of scientists support mainly environmental explanations; a clear consensus. Another ~20% hold mixed or uncertain views. The remaining ~5%, where you belong, largely outside the mainstream, argue strong hereditarian positions on group IQ differences.
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@RazorFist online regime toady must be such a weird career
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My respect for J.D. Vance grows.
First To Hear It@firsttohearit
JD VANCE: "It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of, you know, what going on in the Catholic church and let the President of the United States stick to dictating American public policy."
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@DiamondFitVB @willedward94 @StefanMolyneux the universe can only exist without a creator if it's supernatural, not subject to the necessity of cause and effect that defines materialism. if you accept such a thing, you have essentially acknowledged God
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@willedward94 @StefanMolyneux Christians started the regression is Stef's point. He argues for no regression at all. If God can exist without a creator, then why can't the universe?
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The builder and the painter were both created by prior causes.
What is the prior cause for a god?
Christians say the darndest things@ChristiansSTDT
And you wonder why people laugh at you....
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From Young Men to Monsters.
“Radicalized: with Sean Hannity” exposes the forces driving a dangerous new generation.
Streaming Wednesday, April 15th on Fox Nation.
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The Art of the Deal...
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@HilldurG @StefanMolyneux true as long we're not talking about real work
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@StefanMolyneux Let you in let me let you in in a little secret. They aren’t overtaking them. They should be, but they aren’t in the workplace. They’re pathetic and weak. The women are better than the men.
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Girls feel superior because they are smarter as kids.
By the time men overtake them, the vanity is set in stone.
Thus, when men succeed more, woman cry "sexism."
John Rain@johnthenoticer
A recent study has confirmed Lynn’s developmental theory on intelligence differences between men and women: During childhood, girls have a slightly higher IQ than boys. This then reverses over the years, resulting in an advantage of about 2.5 IQ points in favor of men in adulthood.
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@99Mortred @JakeCan72 the founders were collectivists who believed their group was oppressed due to power structures, historical forces etc.
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You intentionally ignored the ideological underpinnings of the Woke Right so you can deflect by saying it's only "superficial".
Here's what it would look like if you were not doing that:
Just because the cop claims to be violating the law for the purposes of order, while the robber violates the law because he believes he's entitled to it, doesn't change the fact that they're both criminals.
Just like adopting the leftist worldview makes you a leftist.
Just because you have "conservative" goals, doesn't negate that you're a leftist. The tactics(what you call superficial) are a natural outgrowth of this worldview.
If you're a collectivist and an Idealist who believes that the world is divided into two classes of the oppressors and the oppressed, that you have been denied your true nature and what you deserve by some hidden power structure that secretly, and often unknowingly, brainwashes people into not realizing themselves for who they truly are, you are a leftist.
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They don’t argue with you. They rename reality.
Ten new words a week.
“Diversity” = ideological conformity.
“Inclusion” = exclusion of dissent.
“Equity” = engineered outcomes, not equal opportunity.
“Lived experience” = anecdote that outranks data.
“Problematic” = anything that challenges the orthodoxy.
“Decolonize” = remove Western knowledge from institutions.
“White rage” = disagreement while white.
“Birthing person” = woman.
@ConceptualJames built an entire encyclopedia just to translate this language.
He can’t keep up. Nobody can.
That’s not a failure of effort. That’s the design.
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@GallowsHumorMag It's cool man you didn't research me for 5 minutes and now you're in ego-saving mode after accusing me of being some kind of botted Zionist conspiracy
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Iran has no navy, no air force, no air defenses, their top 50 leaders are dead, and an Iranian faction gave Trump 10 oil tankers as a gift. But a lot of (highly-respected) right-wing posters are declaring defeat for America. This is starting to get delusional.
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