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Bible contains the necessary knowledge for humans. Bible, being the word inspired by God, is the main book of Christians and is the one they should all read.
In fact, I think Christians should not read other books too much, since that would diminish the Bible's effect.
I would recommend for beginners to start from the genesis and read till the end of deuteronomy. Then move on to read the new testament.
So the order of reading would be:
1) Genesis
2) Exodus
3) Leviticus
4) Numbers
5) Deuteronomy
6) New testament writings about Jesus and after Jesus
Naturally, you could start with 6) New testament and after 6) you read 1,2,3,4,5.
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Democracy doesnt exist in a war, nor it could.
During the war people show their true nature, and their desire to kill anyone they dislike shows itself clearly.
During peace, its hidden so you wouldnt notice it.
Plus, Ukrainians have a history of corruption and removing reporters due to sensitive topics. What is strange is that they are not even hiding it.
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I usually seek instructions from God when I dont know what to do.
It doesnt always work, but it works often.
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@PREZ-HILTON
You were suspicious in my reads from early dp1. At this point, I am ready to lynch you or austin or to get a convincing claim.
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I am starting to think its a scum trick to save austin and make him look town. The other explanation could be to prevent us from getting claim from austin.
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He spelled "silenced". Okay, we get it now.
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VTL Austin
Austin's behavior now is even more suspicious.
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I have done some research on no lynch, and apparently it was a mistake not to lynch in DP1. But due to too many inactives, lynch wasnt possible.
I assume that now there are 7 town players.
7 - 3 I guess.
If we mislynch now, then
5-3
If that happens, we should no lynch to make it 4-3 next.
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@zedvictor4
People usually assume it wont go that far, but it always does.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
In countries where you " have to be " a Muslim, there is no doubt that you would have heaps of people that are ( Not religious ) or ( christian ) in full Muslim attire.Undercover if you will.
And that is what happens. Plenty of people are forced to say that they are muslim. How many of them would rather say they are christians, atheists... but they cant because the punishment for apostasy is unpleasant.
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@Athias
Slave or a Master, huh? I reject both. Now what?
It would be great if everyone followed that, but great majority dont.
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@whiteflame
@ILikePie5
@SirAnonymous
@AustinL0926
I would like to hear your opinions on this character claim.
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@AustinL0926
Why are we lynching Wylted?
I dont think there is enough active players to lynch anyone. The only point of it would be claim.
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VTL Wylted
I think we should get a character claim from him.
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@Athias
Argumentum ad antiquitatem.
Is a false claim. There never was a peaceful society. To claim that people can create one when they have no working plan for that and when history disagrees with existance of peace is wrong. To disregard history in anything would be a mistake.
We've all engaged verbal conflict as members of this site. Not one time, at least to my knowledge, has said conflict escalated to violence.
Hence, the difference between online site and society. We dont know what users do in real life.
You've observed them just engaging conflict just for the sake of engaging conflict?
Entire history is humans competing and being eager for conflict.
Not all.
Is an irrelevant claim, since society is not made from minority in society.
CONFLICT=/=VIOLENCE
Is a false statement. Verbal conflict is just an introduction for violent conflict, that being an introduction to war.
The ones who typically state "peace is impossible" are usually the one who sanction and/or perpetrate violence.
Is irrelevant, since it doesnt affect the correctness of the claim. I am all for peace, but I know its just a fairy tale. Even peaceful groups turn violent and abusive after some time. The entire point of humanity is competition for power. If you wont compete for power, you will be oppressed by those who will.
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@whiteflame
@SirAnonymous
I would prefer to go after austin, but its not possible at this point.
Since there is little time left, I will try and help whiteflame to get character claim from SirAnonymous who is my neutral read, since whiteflame is slightly town in my read.
VTL SirAnonymous
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I believe that the DP ends soon.
If anyone has anything relevant to say, now is the time to say it.
We didnt get far with genre and sex, with only 6 soft claims out of 11 players.
Lancelot is still completely inactive. I am not in favor of lynching him now. I would prefer if we can get a replacement as soon as possible.
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The debate that happened wasnt special in itself. The topic was if veiling is good or not. Muslim argued that it is.
You can see the full debate here:
However, what is special and worthy of observation is the muslim actually uploaded the debate to his channel too, but he blured the woman's face entirely.
He always blurs women in his videos:
This same muslim argued for death penalty for apostasy in this debate:
His vision of perfect society is all women being blured and people being killed if they ever leave islam.
Is this your vision of perfect society?
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@SirAnonymous
@crystalynx
Genre: adventure, fantasy
Sex: Male
crystalynx should be next.
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Here is what I observe so far
SirAnon - neutral
badger - neutral
Pie - Town
Lancelot - completely inactive. If scum, well played.
Whiteflame - close to neutral, slightly town
PREZ-HILTON - bit suspicious
Austin - bit suspicious
That2 - neutral
Earth - neutral
crystalynx - not much activity
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That is expected. Muslims are very sensitive about Quran. They consider the book itself to be sacred and that it should be treated with most respect.
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@Melcharaz
dissatisfaction draws more dissatisfaction. pain attracts more pain. when there is no peace, chaos, sin. seeks to grow and become manifest in doubt, fear, and malady
True. People struggle with pain and as a result they are producing more pain through their actions. Pain can blind the person's judgment.
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@FLRW
What is taking AI so long to take over?
The AI is being tested and used in military, so I assume the terminator scenario is getting more and more possible.
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@whiteflame
Anime genre (shonen, romance, action, comedy, etc.)Character alignment (hero, villain, anti-hero, etc.)Character sex
Well, I guess we could start with one of those. Its better than going completely arbitrarily.
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@Greyparrot
Sounds possible.
Today I mostly see females debating on social media like twitter, youtube and Quora. But debates there are usually short and more often are not really debates but an exchange of assumptions and insults and jokes.
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I have seen a few female debaters in live debates, but its really a small number compared to number of males there.
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Females are different from males. They have different interests and do different activities.
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@That2User
These? What anime?
From what I have seen so far, it is likely that I am not familiar with any anime in this game.
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@ILikePie5
What are y’all’s thoughts on my Miller claim
It seems like it helps the town a little, prevents waste of cop use.
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@Intelligence_06
it doesn’t make them “evil”
I consider the people in dark triad area to be evil.
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@Intelligence_06
However, I don’t see a reasonable correlation.
Science is based on statistics and observations, not on "reasonable correlations". In fact, "reasonable correlations" are mostly for the religious people. They are the ones trying to add "how" to everything.
Arbitrary explanations are what harmed psychology as a science since people believed in what sounds good, as opposed to what is actually true.
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@TWS1405_2
I suggest you go back and read what I wrote
Is a false claim. I already responded to your points and I feel no need to repeat myself.
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@Intelligence_06
Living should be a crime since sooner or later you are going to do some sort of harm to something.
Is a false statement. Life is important. Cars are not important. Banning cars would decrease harm, but wouldnt decrease the amount of life or wipe it out. Considering the amount of harm is vital for decision making. With all else remaining equal, lowering harm is what we should do. There is no excuse in making people suffer so that you can ride around in the fancy car.
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@ILikePie5
How much do y’all know about anime
Not that much. These are not the types of anime I usually watch.
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@TWS1405_2
We cannot function as a society let alone a country without motor conveyances.
Is a false statement. Humans functioned for thousands of years without cars.
The claim "We cannot go back to previous modes of transport" is false.
It is irrelevant, since cars are not the only mode of modern transport. But even when considering it relevant, to say that "you cannot walk or sit on a carriage or ride a horse" and to say that "you have to travel very far" are false claims.
Your society wants to travel far because your society feels like traveling far. We see that people in the past usually didnt travel very far, they did it sometimes. It functioned for thousands of years. To claim that it cannot function again is false. Cars are the result of people's greed and not something that you have to use, no matter how much you convince yourself that it is your only option.
"More people would die" is false. The claims "people dying by being run over by cars" and "animals dying by being run over by cars" are true. Death from being run over by a car is worse than the types of death that are prevented by cars, hence we cannot even consider them equal.
"Deaths prevented by cars" are rare, one could even say non-existent. To support this claim, I claim that "cars are not the only form of transport" and "ambulance is the one that should be taking people to the hospital".
You might say "ambulance=car", however most cars are not ambulances, which makes most cars unnecessary. Further, not all ambulances are cars.
Other forms of transport such as electric bikes are better for daily transport, while motorcycles are better for long distance travels, commodity transport and urgencies, especially motorcycles with carriage or sidecar.
Abandoning cars would cause an increase in wealth, since not only lives would be saved but e bikes and motorcycles are actually cheaper and more efficient than cars in energy use.
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Will that stop Trump from being nominee, or from winning?
And regardless, does Biden even have a chance of another term with 43% current approval rate which could drop even lower by the time of elections?
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@IlDiavolo
women usually beat their children to correct them
Since you agree with my claim of women usually beating children, there is nothing for me to respond to anymore, since my claim was that women usually beat their children.
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@oromagi
Evil is a religious judgement and never a scientific conclusion.
Is a false claim. As long as "evil" has a definition that can be confirmed through observation, such confirmation is a scientific conclusion.
If we define "evil" as "manipulation", then the observation of manipulation is an observation of evil.
If you think that evil has no definition(which would be your opinion), then you cannot possibly have a moral system nor confirm evil through observation.
Psychologists don't ever refer to subjects as evil.
Is called an assumption. You are trying to separate "scientists" from "evil" as if scientists cannot observe "evil" based on fixed definitions.
Further, to claim that psychologists dont call something evil when it is observably evil is in itself a nonsense since psychology has a whole list of "inappropriate and appropriate behaviors" and they update the list every day. It doesnt matter if they change the word "evil" to "inappropriate", both words are describing something that "we really dont want".
So our data set is limited to US citizens with an online profile of sufficient depth for a digital retailer to find worthy of recruitment, people with the time and incliniation to volunteer for an online survey- so we are already heavily skewing towards white, affluent, relatively inactive or underemployed people. Judging by social media, isn't psychopathy and narcissism already strongly over-represented in the anonymity of online populations?
I was surprised that any study on this was even done in the first place.
Most people in the USA have internet and use it often, so I wouldnt say that there is more US psychopaths in their online population than offline. People in real world hide their psychopathic traits more, but its still there.
Let's note there is no fact checking mechanism for the anonymous replies.
In studies like these, the only fact check would be if people were actually short or faking it. You cannot go around and follow people to check if they are manipulative, immoral...ect.
Is less than 400 online Americans really sufficient to start making generalizations about all short humans?
400 is a solid number to make a general conclusion when its the only data we have. I might just google to see if there are more studies on short people.
Even though I am slightly taller than average (and grateful to be so) I would still answer yes to "wishing I was taller" if only for basketball games.
Well, I dont know about you, but I was short as a kid and I grew up to be a mean person.
Now, the study obviously compared data to the data of people who didnt wish they were taller. Also, I believe that wishing to be taller wasnt the only variable.
Any woman who wears high heels wishes she was taller.
I believe the study is saying that men have greater problems with being short. Women are less affected.
Researchers seem to be diagnosing, not just short people, but the majority of all people
Are most people short and wish they were taller?
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@IlDiavolo
Where the heck did you get all this bullshit? Women beating their children all the time? 😆
Are you implying its not true?
but according to my experience women are usually far sensitive than men, especially when its comes to kids
I dont see what your experience or their sensitivity has to do with anything. Are you implying they are "more sensitive", so they wont beat their kids? If you are implying that, then you would be wrong since "being sensitive" is not present in women. Even if it was present, it does not prevent them from "beating their children". Women are not "sensitive". They use their children to brag around, and often shame their children and compare their children to other as if children were private property. Most of them beat their children when its not socially disapproved. We see this even in female animals.
I saw women crying because of a someone else's child.
So you are basing your opinion on irrelevant example of one woman seeking attention to make opinion about 4 billion women?
In that case, I will base my opinion on seeing countless women beat their children to support my opinion of women beating their children.
I know there might be women that are mean and insensitive, but it's a low percentage.
Is a false statement. A simple google search on statistics would have fixed your incorrect opinion. Even in Sweden, before it became illegal, beating children was approved by over 70% of women. Thats not exactly "a small percentage".
This supports my claim that women will likely use force on their children unles someone acts to prevent them.
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@IlDiavolo
Women are nore agreeable because of the low levels of testosterone according to Dr. Peterson.
Women change their behavior based on a situation.
Usually, their basic pattern of thought function is:
"Make a bunch of mistakes" then "cry and blame everyone else for those mistakes".
If a woman is stronger or in a better position, she will use force as she pleases. The examples of this are women beating their children all the time.
However, when in a situation where strength is insufficient, women have to use lies and distractions and even kindness in order to function properly. So they have to use words and be convincing, so to say.
If those dont work, then they have to be submissive.
Really simple set of options: Forcing, convincing or being submissive.
Due to women being physically weaker, they often have to resort to convincing or being submissive, since forcing someone is not an option if you are physically weaker and in bad position. They are good at convincing and being submissive, which is no surprise given so much practice and experience.
This does not change the fact that women are likely to use force when they are physically stronger or in better position, as proven by billions of examples worldwide.
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Owning a car should be a crime since sooner or later you are going to run someone over.
Also, the claim that you cannot function without a car is false, since humans have functioned without a car for thousands of years.
Its like me saying that I cannot function without my smartphone. Its an obvious lie, but this society is based on lies so I might as well join in.
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@badger
Anyone given any reason to be envious or resentful is in danger of becoming a shitty person.
Well, the shittiness comes easily.
Person gets bullied and dared by his parents and peers for a long time, so being a shitty person from that standpoint is easy, natural.
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Science says:
"People who are relatively short and those who wish to be taller tend to have more “Dark Triad” traits, according to new research published in Personality and Individual Differences."
"The Dark Triad refers to a set of three related personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. Psychopathy is characterized by a lack of empathy and remorse, impulsivity, and a disregard for social norms and rules. Narcissism is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, entitlement, and a need for admiration. Machiavellianism refers to a tendency to be manipulative, cynical, and lacking in morality."
"shorter people and those who wished to be taller tended to exhibit more psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism."
"Shorter people, especially those who wish they were taller, are more characterized by traits that are likely to make them show-off, be confrontational, and interested in power,” said Jonason, the author of “Shining Light on the Dark Side of Personality.."
"But why would shorter people tend to have more dark traits? The researchers said that “these relationships may be best understood from an evolutionary framework, suggesting that when people cannot be physically formidable, they may then be psychologically formidable instead."
"When individuals are physically smaller or weaker, they may use psychological tactics to compensate for this. For example, shorter men may demand respect, acquire resources, and impress romantic partners with their personality traits, while shorter women may use deception to appear more desirable or gain protection and resources. These psychological tactics may provide advantages in survival and mating, and may offset physical disadvantages."
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