Felis_Catus_Domesticus

One who tried and failed…

If people put as much effort into understanding evil as they exert trying to blame god for all the evil that is done in this world, it would be much more productive. So much effort wasted trying to create a chain of causality:

Evil --> God

Evil --> (Bad) Humans --> God

Evil --> (Bad) Humans --> Religion --> God (who they then claim doesn’t really exist…)

Really, it’s all such mental intemperance and illogic. The opposite of rationality, really. So many missing pieces to these “models”. They can’t explain reality themselves under their own mental powers, while claiming what religious people believe is nothing but a figment of their imagination. What sort of figments are these incoherent, incomplete, and partial arguments of unbelievers, in the end?

No.

No.

There’s your proof.

Cherry picking + superimposing modern understandings divorced from actual historical cultural understandings at the time of the authors are the 2 flaws in logic and reasoning that these types will never acknowledge.

Wisdom, Chapter 11

Punishment of the Wicked

15 In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts, which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals, you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them, 16 so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins. 17 For your all-powerful hand, which created the world out of formless matter, did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or bold lions, 18 or newly-created unknown beasts full of rage, or such as breathe out fiery breath, or belch forth a thick pall of smoke, or flash terrible sparks from their eyes; 19 not only could the harm they did destroy people,[e] but the mere sight of them could kill by fright. 20 Even apart from these, people[f] could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of your power. But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight. God Is Powerful and Merciful

21 For it is always in your power to show great strength, and who can withstand the might of your arm? 22 Because the whole world before you is like a speck that tips the scales, and like a drop of morning dew that falls on the ground. 23 But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent. 24 For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have made, for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. 25 How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved? 26 You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living.

vague because it was broadly understood, culturally. Just like we know that at a stop light green means go and red means stop, and not the opposite. So obvious it is not even written down anywhere, yet a person from the Roman era would be utterly baffled by a stoplight on multiple levels. Just like everybody’s heard of yogurt…

people possess free will.

the universe has laws. and consequences.

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and HIV is highly correlated with AIDS…

just semantic shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic for the most part, although in recent years, better drugs have increased the “truthiness” of this way of talking about it. .

weasel words, spoken in the passive voice.

The actual biblical point is a nuanced one.

an argument against identity politics?

all of those things were beautiful. all long gone now.

No

anyone who starts sentence with “bro” can f-off

logical fallacy…

not touching it (until you replace it) is a good game plan.

that eliminates breakage and just leaves rats as the unpredictable variable.

check out “knob and tube” wiring if you really don’t want to sleep well at night.

that stuff’s a horror show by today’s standards.

simple solutions are the best solutions.

keep it far enough from the house so that you don’t have tree trimming issues when the tree gets big or when a storm hits…

to not create a sealed environment since the homes that did have good insulation and a good seal generally had more ‘mysterious’ deaths that were attributed to ‘stale air’ and even brought back the term ‘miasma’ for a while.