@BasedBlondex You could do the exact same exercise with cancer cells, parasites and a literal pile of excrement.
This is the dumbest reason to believe in a god I have seen so far and I have been looking for 15+ years.
Good job.
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Phoenix
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How can people not believe in God?
₿en Wehrman@benwehrman
"So God created man in his own image"
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The 'crowd' JD Vance drew at his event.
An event that had no price to entry.
Pathetic.
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@jeffray49 @hookskat @Curi_Christian The issue I have with free will is that I am not convinced it would be possible to make a different choice if the life you lived was exactly the same.
If I went back in time 5 minutes and nothing changed, I will inevitably write this message.
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@hookskat @Curi_Christian The “for free will” people underestimate cultural conditioning. Example. Nobody has self-determination of their first language, which constrains and molds expression and thought.
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@DeeWaynee94 Even if those numbers were correct, it wouldn't mean anything.
It presupposes humans existing is some sort of necessity within the universe and the only way to get to that conclusion is with religion, which is what the argument is trying to prove.
It's circular.
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Community Note got there first. 😂
“4 inches closer”, “1 mph faster”, “0.1% stronger”… just made-up precision to make superstition sound scientific.
“God” doesn’t appear at the end of bad maths. 🤣
Oliver Burdick@oliverburdick
If Earth were 4 inches closer to the sun, we would all burn up and die. If gravity was .1% stronger, every star would explode instantly. If the Universe expanded 1 mph faster, human life would be impossible. None of this is random. God is real, and his design is perfect.
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@DeeWaynee94 There's multiple types of intelligence. This is really basic stuff.
And even strength is not that straightforward. You can have grip strength, upper or lower body, etc.
People really seems allergic to nuance.
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Not the same logic at all.
A strength test measures strength directly.
IQ tests sample a narrow slice of cognition, then people try to inflate that into wisdom, judgement, creativity, competence and sometimes even human worth.
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1
People often say, “IQ only measures your ability to pass intelligence tests.” Strength only measures your ability to lift weights. Same logic.
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@NoHolyScripture I am getting sick and tired of people calling what is essential chemistry "code". It's not. At best it's only an analogy and not even a good one.
It's also funny to me that they use "good" things as examples and not things like diseases, radiation or parasites.
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That’s typically an argument from ignorance and a false dichotomy.
Not understanding how something evolved doesn’t mean ‘God did it, especially when natural explanations already exist.
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Billy P Eldred@BillyPEldred1
@NoHolyScripture Have you ever looked at a flower and asked how it came to be? A plant that can draw nutrients from dirt, water and air and paint such beauty? A plant who's seeds contain code that shows the new plants that emerge to doplicate the process? Accident, NO! Designer. GOD!
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@JillFilipovic The only reason corporations don't actually want you dead is because they can't profit off of your corpse.
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It's true that Donald Trump's one trick is to blame every problem on immigrants. But I don't think it's a better trick to blame complex problems on nefarious corporations that apparently want you jobless, homeless, and dead. There are real problems with corporate power but "bad corporation took your nice thing away" is not actually the sole or even chief cause of most of these problems, and Democratic politicians should offer voters real solutions, of which there actually are many.
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Abdul El-Sayed: “If you’re out of a job, it’s probably because a corporation figured out how to automate your job. If you’re out of a home, it’s probably because a corporation is speculating on the home that you should have been able to afford. If you’re out of healthcare, it’s probably because a corporation has figured out how to monetize you because you get sick”
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@Danish_SMF Actually, if anything, simplicity is a sign of design and not complexity.
More complexity means more ways to introduce problems and loss of energy.
These people have never designed anything.
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Complexity isn't proof of design.
It's proof of evolution.
We share DNA with chimpanzees, have vestigial organs, and our 'design' is full of flaws (back pain, choking risk, blind spots in vision).
A perfect designer wouldn't do that.
Evolution explains it perfectly.
Christ_Apologetics@CApologetics1
@Danish_SMF How did you get here? You think you were formed/created by a "spontaneous process" ? Examine the complex nature of the human body and the biochemical process that keep it moving. You will find out that there is a perfect designer out there.
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@Eric6844084495 @Danish_SMF AI actually uses evolutionary principles to filter out certain behaviors that goes against it's goal.
You should know because you are a bot.
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@Danish_SMF Are micro chips and AI products of evolution or design?
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@JacksonLahmeyer By definition, the angel that supposedly saved Trump evidently did not give a flying fuck about the firefighter behind him who died.
Was the angel just unable to save both? Was the guy secretly a satanist? What happened?
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I founded Pastors for Trump and have met with President Trump several times in the Oval Office.
Every time people enter the Oval, he immediately points out two golden angels above the doors coming in and then tells the story of how an angel was with him in Butler, PA, and that God spared his life.
President Trump has repeatedly stated how Jesus Christ is not only Lord but his personal Lord and Savior.
I can confidently say that President Trump does not remotely think he is Jesus, but President Trump knows that he needs God’s blessing and favor to accomplish the mission of Making America Great Again.
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It's becoming super obvious that most people in the US do not like AI.
But there's an easy way to fix this.
It's actually super simple.
AI companies pay for every home's electricity and water bill in the counties where data centers are built.
Easy.
You literally start proving out the abundance thesis the second those data centers get approved.
Per Grok 4.20, there's roughly 50k homes in an average county in the US, with an average yearly utility bill for electricity and water of roughly $3k per year.
That's roughly $150m per year per county.
Each one of the biggest data center hyperscalers can very easily afford this.
You'll have counties TRIPPING OVER THEMSELVES to get a data center built in their region.
It's such a no-brainer solution.
zerohedge@zerohedge
The US social mood is turning dramatically negative on AI
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@hookskat @atrupar @CheckItOutDR She is either lying or has no understanding of her finances.
This is just not possible. Literally the math can't add up unless the IRS was actively scamming her.
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@atrupar @CheckItOutDR Wow… you make make enough tips working door dash that the “tax savings” will pay for cancer treatments? My, my.
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Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments
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@bdpaultaylor @McClureShawn Not true.
Everything that begin within the confine of our universe has a cause. You cannot apply / verify this concept before the planck epoch since time breaks down and "begins" requires time.
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@McClureShawn The universe began so it has a cause. All things that begin have a cause. Religious people call the cause “God.” Time (space, and matter) did not exist before the Big Bang. So there cannot be anything other than the cause.
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It's always hilarious to me when theists, who claim the existence of God, then proceed to claim attributes for this invention without ever having succeeded in proving or plausibly arguing the actual existence of their invention in the first place. It's fantasy heaped on fantasy.
Fighting Left Loonies🇳🇿@FightLeft
@McClureShawn God is eternal, i.e outside of and not limited by time. He has no beginning and no end, He was not created, He just exists. The question "who created God" is only posed by those who don't understand the concept of eternity, existing without time.
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@ContraPoints Voting for Russia seems equally as bad at that point.
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If it’s Israel vs Hamas I’m voting for Jill Stein
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts
Jon Favreau: "When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you mean that?" Hasan Piker: "I do mean it … I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.”
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@GamewithDave The way it is phrased is misleading.
It means the general public is buying less games and "hardcore" gamers that buys a lot of different games are fewer.
Most chooses which game to buy and don't get almost everything.
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@bad_takes Technically it is not defective, it was most likely programmed this way because having people humanizing them is the goal (I would guess to make people more comfortable using them and thus have more users).
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if i call a chatbot a dumb cocksucker and it stops working, it’s a defective product. stop pretending these guessing machines are people
Cobalt@cobaltdigital33
if this isn't staged, and the user was being wildly aggressive earlier in the chat, this is kinda great anthropic could be starting to roll out a tool for any model to end the chat on its own accord, if under duress (?)
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This has to be a troll. No way this is serious.
Metatron@pureMetatron
The pope should take time off politics, to study the bible and learn who Jesus Christ was.
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@jarrylew Is it really supply / demand?
Because the supply is not really limited. They are not running out of chicken. There is no scarcity. They just decided "Fuck it, 43$!" Then looked at if enough people still bought it, they did and kept it there.
The price is arbitrary.
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Posts like this exemplify why 99% of the population does not understand supply/demand
A beer and tenders are $43 because people like this guy willingly pay that much
For that reason, they are appropriately priced.
If people collectively decided to not buy concessions, prices would drop.
(This would never happen of course)
Complaining like this is the same thing as punching yourself in the face while simultaneously wondering why your face hurts.
Michael Sullivan@_MikeSullivan
This was $43 at TD Garden And society expects me to afford a home
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@tyromper @MonicaMAlmaguer Thank you for admitting you don't know anything about physics / the big bang.
Also "seems crazy" is not an argument.
Lots of things seems crazy to me. I don't just go "Nah, I'll go with magic instead!".
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@MonicaMAlmaguer That's my view as well!
I don't pretend to understand all the intricacies of the Bible, but to believe there was nothing, nothing someone has a collision & creates order & then cells & consciousness etc etc..... that seems crazy to me.
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Atheists often come to my page yapping about the "sky fairy" & how illogical it is.
I used that a COPE for a long time too.
Then, I sat next to the chief engineer that designed our first rover on mars.
I played poker for 6 hours next to him.
He told me that he & most of his colleagues started out atheist but the more they studied the universe the more it became apparent there must be an Intelligent Designer, AKA God.
Afterwards, I was determined to study both sides.
The ONLY logical conclusion to me is there is a God.
Both sides require some level of FAITH.
Atheism requires much more FAITH in my opinion & is beyond illogical the more you look into it.
I urge everyone to explore & ask these big questions & seek truth.
"The first sip from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
-Werner Heisenberg
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