YappyMonotheist

Like I said, if it goes against your understanding you’ll never truly believe it, not for long at least. It’s not choosing to believe with no “good reason”, it’s choosing to believe despite there being no relation at all between matters of fact (ascertained by the senses) and that. Check out Hume’s fork, it’s kinda like that. God is not in this world, God is necessarily outside of it and of a different nature (we’re data for God the programmer, we’re his free-willed Sims and the universe is a sandbox) so you can’t find Him here, through our senses, and added to that are the classical fork interdictions (e.g., moral statements cannot derive from matters of fact, one can simply not care).

And if you have some somewhat prosocial if not completely developed set of moral standards, well that’s great, I’m happy! Men are made good after all, hence the propaganda needed to turn one against each other.

Good stuff! They say the gut is like a second brain or something like that. Pity I treat it like shit, and I have IBS too. 😭

A struggle cuddle with my cat seems to calm me down. I noticed myself doing it when stressed (it doesn’t happen often) and read about it and it seems to check out. 👍

Oh and a long lukewarm/hot shower always makes me feel better, and it’s very good at dealing with bloating.

IME, that one, Just Dance, TiK ToK, Umbrella, and some ABBA (Voulez-Vous, Mamma Mia, Gimme Gimme!, for example) are staples at British weddings. I’m partial to Gimme Gimme, lol, but it’s still not something I would dance to.

Potentially triggering, beware: belief is something reserved for everything outside of the material and observable, like the afterlife, God and values. Often people want material “evidence” as a prerequisite for belief but it just doesn’t work that way, there’s no necessary material connection between that and belief. Ofc, belief that cannot conform to one’s reason and understanding will never stand for long, but it has nothing to do with the world perceived by the senses, that’s what all scientific fields and tools are for!

When I say many people here/in the West don’t understand the nature of belief, that’s what I mean. They don’t stand for anything, they just accept the world through their senses and in the absence of values (again, belief), they can only default to consumerism and hedonism (because the senses say they feel good and that’s all one can “know” in the absence of belief).

Well listen we’re not gonna agree here but I appreciate your politeness and I wish you a good day. ✌️

Jesus wasn’t perfect, he was a righteous man though, a very clever and selfless one (and not everyone is blessed with his intelligence or enough clarity to be selfless). We must follow his lead the same way he followed/was inspired by previous prophets.

Ofc if you believe in Jesus, “the anthropomorphic deity part of a tripartite pantheon” instead of Jesus the wandering rabbi, things start getting messy. Sorry if I’m triggering, I don’t mean to be but I know anyone who believes in anything in earnest might be.

You don’t have to virtue signal but you could have virtue… Idk if it’s better or worse that you’ve reached the point you simply don’t care and can be honest about it, at least with us online strangers. But I’ll stop now, have a good one.

Western, ultra-materialistic, morally-vacuous take. Nothing new but that’s how all money-worshippers operate and why any group of people that share that core idea can never become a society. You can’t build with “fuck you I got mine” people.

What a nonsensically morally relativistic take. Sure, I could spin you feeding the homeless as “communist” and therefore immoral but that doesn’t make it true. Just because people lie or say nonsense doesn’t mean it’s “equally valid”.

You’re supposed to feel at the very least uncomfortable with it if your involvement/impact is minimal. And you should carry that guilt for as long as you’re there since the least you can do is feel bad about it. And ofc, once you don’t, you’ve lost your moral north and you become one more of them… Maybe try to steal a little or even sabotage things discreetly?

Many people will literally die for their beliefs, for the sake of righteousness. But I agree, sometimes people will be immorally self-centered (very often in some cultures, especially the morally relativistic ones).

That’s Paulian/Roman nonsense. Jesus preached duty and righteousness and you will taste Hell as one should if you don’t do as Jesus did, within your personal limitations ofc. You’re supposed to believe and behave like Jesus (he doesn’t even use himself as an example because he understands only God is truly good, he says we have to be “perfect like the Father”, a monotheist maxim), not “in Jesus” like he’s Zeus or something.

Argentina had a very popular meme song in the early 2000s called “Negros de mierda” (“Fucking n-words”). They’re fundamentally European. 🙃

You can be as naked as you want but covered? Nuh uh! Although that well-known populist racist-bait is probably now doubly pushed with the advent of ubiquitous facial recognition. 🙃

Probably more due to their geographical advantages compared to their European peers and other non-ideological factors… but I’m not a WW2 history buff, TBF.

Anglo Saxons are loud and have main character syndrome, then? 😅 I have a feeling Aussies don’t, and most Americans I’ve met have actually been sort of ashamed of saying they’re from the States and overall sweet, lol, so the world might be healing.

He IS also stupid and immature, he’s no Kissinger, I agree, but still.

If he was a good father and person overall, I would assume he had valid reasons. If I were less emotionally stable and more impulsive, I might have a little angry rant before reaching that realization.

Only someone really disturbed/immature/confused would do something like that. If it happened to you, I’m sorry, I empathise. Not having a decent father is almost a meme at this point with how common it is in some circles, but this goes way further.