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Knightfox

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  • Accidental rapture

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  • Of all the Christians to put shade on I wouldn't have thrown Paul in the lot. Paul seemed like a pretty down to earth person from everything I read, he was basically a riches to rags semi militant hobo hippie. Now Peter....

  • Accidental rapture

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  • Some of the most Christian acting people I have known were Jews, Muslims, and Atheists.

  • Accidental rapture

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  • ....Win?

    Jokes aside, if you don't believe in god and end up going to heaven because you were actually a good person that would be a win in my book, but I would imagine the atheist in this event would be eternally upset that they were wrong in their actual premise. Joke is more funny if you ended up in a non-Christian afterlife.

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • That's the thing, looking at the company they don't work "normal labor" jobs. Infosys is into info tech, consulting, and outsourcing services and looking at their acquisition history I get the impression they buy up smaller companies and consolidate their work into their product. Basically they make websites and tools that your company buys for $100k to analyze and optimize workflow, but the site doesn't work well and they never fix it. After 2 years enough time has passed that the higher ups don't feel embarrassed retiring the software and buying something else. Also, rather than just coding themselves they code with AI or buy other companies that already wrote the code and put it into their own product.

    At the end of the day they aren't "working," they are being available. They are the shitty guy who is answering a work call on a Saturday while they are supposed to be watching their kid's ball game. They are the person who has to step out of the movie theater because they are getting an urgent work call at 10 pm on Friday. They are the person who flies back from their vacation two days early because the boss wants to ask about sales numbers. This is how Executive suite types say they work 16 hour days 7 days a week, they count every hour of the day as work because they are available, not because they were being productive that entire time.

  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • This is going to come off as shilling for Valve, but it isn't my intention.

    I could entirely see Valve pricing the Steam Machine relatively affordably and this statement is ultimately a dig at how overpriced pre-built PCs and consoles can be.

    "The Steam Machine outperforms 70% of current user PCs...we neglected to say that the majority of user PCs are overpriced for what they deliver."

  • She strongly disagrees

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  • I don't know, I feel like that's a bit of a stretch. If god exists, creation is because of them, and early humans and faith are shaped by them, then the concept of a god who purports themselves as objectively good despite subjective proof otherwise doesn't seem unlikely. The idea that god might not be good in the way we think good should be is relatively modern and prior to the last 100-200 years god was good because everything prior said so. For fucks sake most people couldn't read and just trusted the guy in robes to tell them what to think.

    So yeah, just like me trimming a plant and putting it in rooting hormone 1000 times, I think an all powerful and knowable god could theoretically always inevitably result in Christianity if they wanted, the bar isn't that high when the majority of the species lifetime is dismally stupid.

    Also, your argument is inherently flawed if you think the contrast of a good god must be an evil one. Concepts of good and evil have fluctuated wildly over the centuries, both in location and sentiment. If god made everything and said they are good then at best good to us doesn't mean the same thing as good means to them and trying to frame the argument in that is meaningless.

    At the end of the day you get to decide if you believe in god or not, if you do believe in god you can still decide whether you like "god" and want to follow it; however, making the logical leap that god doesn't exist because they aren't good by your definition is fundamentally flawed.

  • She strongly disagrees

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  • If you've never seen it I recommend you watch the movie, "The Man from Earth." It's a short "indy-esque" movie and, without too many spoilers, focuses on a man who claims he is a prehistoric man who just never died. In his long life span he says he traveled to India and studied with the Buddah and while returning west began to spread the Buddah's teachings, in time people began to call him Jesus.

    Really interesting movie, lots of great thought experiment stuff, but it does make an interesting point that the literal teachings of Jesus are so different from the old testament teachings that one almost wonders how they could come from the same source.

  • She strongly disagrees

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  • Also I don’t think it’s even worth examining a flawed deity in the context of Christianity, because it’s clearly something they made up. “Whats that, lord? Go kill the people we don’t like and steal their land and take their virgins as war brides? Well if God says so 🤷”

    Well that's part of the problem, the people in the situation are flawed as well. A biblical reference that comes to mind is First Samuel 15:3 in which god instructs the Israelites to kill all of the Amalekites including men, women, infants, nursing children, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey. In the story Saul actually sins and disobeys god by not killing everything he is instructed to kill as fucked up as that is.

  • She strongly disagrees

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  • When discussing god with atheists it often comes down to a point similar to this, "God can't be real because if god existed they wouldn't allow XYZ." In reality we have no reason to assume as much.

    If there is a god that entity could be flawed and faulty while still being omniscient and omnipotent. We assume that a being with human sentiments and unlimited knowledge would have to be a good being, but that's not necessarily so. It's entirely possible that if god exists it views us similarly to how we view ants and simply just doesn't share the concerns or beliefs we feel are naturally just and fair.

    At the end of the day god could be a giant toddler on the playground and while they are unfair and unjust you have the choice of either believing and following (assuming the Christian god) to go to heaven or not believing and following and burning in eternal torment.

    This is all just a thought experiment, but the argument that god can't exist because god isn't good is inherently a flawed argument (not that you are explicitly making that argument, I'm just extrapolating off of what you posted, ie god might not be a good guy).

  • Mike Johnson: 'My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor"

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  • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

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  • Honestly didn't know that Gelsinger was a bible thumper, after his time at Intel I figured he'd just retire and disappear.

  • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

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  • a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

    Hahahahaha.....wait, was that not a joke?

  • An experiment

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  • Is this just camping with extra steps?

  • There should be a name for this

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  • I was thinking that this was a relatively bullshit example, but the movie "The One" featuring Jet Li makes this an awesome example. On it's face the impacts of one person likely aren't even enough for one person to notice, but if you had someone with the knowledge and means to take advantage of this they could be incredibly powerful.

  • Guess I'm sleeping on the couch again

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  • BTC loses a chunk of value it’s just Tuesday BTC.

  • Every graph about the US

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  • All it needs is a start point to make it fairly accurate. If you're not from the US the politics of the 1700's and 1800's are actually kind interesting unlike the slop we got after something like 1975. Hell, as a point of intrigue, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was at least "interesting." At the time the parties maintained much of their core belief (Democrat = big Fed, Republican = small Fed), but the implementation was split by North vs South. This led to some interesting situations where anti big Fed Republicans in the north votes for big Fed regulations while pro big Fed Democrats in the south voted against big Fed regulations. US politics used to be interesting, hell even as recently as 2012 we had situations where Republicans were trying to find avenues for conservative value illegal immigrants as a means to bolster their ranks, but all that fell through because the existing rank and file couldn't stomach illegal brown people taking jobs they didn't want.

    Now US politics seems to be Fascist vs not Fascist while there are no true alternatives.

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    Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, dedicates to Trump

    www.reuters.com /world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-be-announced-year-overshadowed-by-trump-2025-10-10/

  • Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

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  • Trump's Nobel Prize desperation now a 'running joke' among diplomats

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  • I was wondering about that as well so I looked into the dates. Apparently Obama got the award in October 9, 2009, and some of the first controversial drone strikes under his administration were in March and April of 2009. Dude came out the gate drone striking and the Nobel Committee just ignored it.

  • White House memo says 750,000 furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay

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  • I used to want to work for the federal government and once upon a time it was a very good job. Decent, but not the best, pay along with good health benefits, large amounts (in US terms) of leave, extra holidays, and a pension program. Now I don't see why anyone would want to work for the federal government. A common sentiment amongst government workers are that you are there for at least one of four things:

    1.) Early retirement/pension - In the older days you could potentially fully retire as early as 50.

    2.) Healthcare - You got to keep it into early retirement and it was typically better than any private or business insurance or medicare.

    3.) Stability - Once in you would probably never be laid off or fired.

    4.) Ulterior motives - A lot of government workers do what they do because they get something else out of it. Someone working at the EPA might get a sense of fulfillment and earnestly believe they are making a difference. Likewise someone working in ICE might be getting their failed-military-abuse-of-power rocks off on the bit of power they have over others.

    Well the stability is gone, the pension only matters if you have the stability to get to 30 years, and the healthcare is getting worse over time.