I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • I feel like this question is often pulled up in these conversations and it’s rather disingenuous.

    Or rather it is taken disingenuously.

    This question is not meant to say that if you didn’t have Jesus you would be a sadistic cannibal sociopath.

    This question comes from the idea that what is God is good, and therefore if you don’t have God, you can’t possibly know what is good in a true and eternal fundamental sense, far beyond simple right and wrong.

    Because if you think about it, if there is a God, then the universe and everything in it belongs to them, right?

    And whatever they decide is good for their universe is the absolute barometric truth of what is good, right?

    But far too often people are not able to encapsulate that thought and communicate it effectively when talking to people who are outside of their circles and areas of specialized knowledge, and therefore something gets lost in the translation even though the language stays the same.

    This is a common issue in any field that gets excessively specialized, and it is typically exacerbated by the people who are inside the field, but not so far advanced into the field that they are aware of those pitfalls and how to navigate them.

    So yeah, they’re not saying if it wasn’t for God they would rape and murder and kill and exploit. They’re saying that because of God they have a concept of something that is eternally true regardless of your individual impression of it, And if there was no God, there would be no thing like that in existence.



  • The first time I got onto the internet proper, I was over at a friend’s house for his birthday as a teenager and his dad had an account and he dialed in and the very first thing he showed me was a picture of a lit red candle sticking out of a woman’s butthole.

    Prior to that, I had signed on to a local BBS with my home computer, but there was not any pornography available on that BBS.

    It was glorious, though, being like 12 years old and figuring out how to make computers talk over telephone lines, though.