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Mharman decided to spew slurs on a now-censored thread and crash out over being told to act mature and obedient to rules.

Mharman is among the single worst options for mod ever.

Is it just the suppressing-your-darker-impulses part.

No one in the world is actually good. We can pretend to be good by saving some game characters, but it is stupid.

Never found that to lead to any of the three.

You never even tried it.

I hate being completely good. It is annoying.

for her benefits means whatever leads her to sexual satisfaction, wealth and security

So praying to God then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRfEHAaOZQ

I cant play as good.

In a spaceship game FTL,

Game can be pretty hard, every bit of money one can get, can be the difference between winning and losing,

I'm more tempted to be evil

https://ftl.fandom.com/wiki/Rebel_ship_supplying_civilians

I wonder if people who enjoy horror movies, villain movies and shows, play villains more in video games.

Uncle Ted calls it over socialization. There are some natural human responses to this temptation such as religion  which even has fallen to over socialization to a certain point. You are conditioned to be subordinate to the needs of others, many of who could give a shit less about you. Maybe you are quiet in a theatre out of respect for others but you see others yell chicken jockey or scream "watch out' . You probably feel an urge to agree to help friends when you don't want to, friends who don't feel the same urge by the way. 

This over socialization is going to impede on your happiness and your ability to do what you want in life. Socialization is good but you probably should try to intentionally develop something to combat this. Maybe a strict ethical framework like "I only do stuff that benefits me" and then before you make a decision you tell yourself that phrase. 

This over socialization is so programmed into you that you even use it when controlling pixels on a screen. The good news is you can also practice breaking it with those same pixels 

What do you think, dear atheist? Have you ever thought about what it would happen if you accept that God exists? I tell you what would happen. Nothing. It's worthless. So, next time a religious guy tells you that there is a God, just reply "yes, I agree" and turn back to your duties. Be happy. 

My argument is that God has to deal with the sinful nature of humans. I believe He dislikes slavery, but may have tolerated it among the Hebrews for reasons I don't quite know. Maybe He wanted to appease the Hebrews? God knows how flawed we are.

What I do know is that God has made numerous covenants, with the final being the covenant of Christ. Although slavery is mentioned in the New Testament, the emphasis is on giving, which seems to be something we all have to do. Most importantly, God gave us free will, which I interpret as Him being for freedom and not slavery. While it is true God wants us to submit to Him, He is not willing to take from us the choice. A slave owner does not consider this. It is a human creation resulting from human sin, that exists across the world in significant ways to this day.

such are people who said of Harvey Weinstein: "He told me to take my clothes off, so I did." And the woke blame Weinstein. Seems to me, the girl was what woke is all about.

I feel like he's a Christian who's really squirelly about admitting he's a Christian for some reason.

He would tell us if he were Christian. He is not a Christian, and is therefore not willing to call himself one.

Celebrity advertising plus tv slot advertising. Some channels will just show Scientology stuff.

As for the horrors of the church of Scientology, Leah Remini hosted a good show about it a few years ago. I’m sure you can find episodes.

What?

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

This is why the entirety of the left routinely does shit like push to Pardon Roman Polanski (Child rapist). It's because they have really high standards to get into their club. If allowing child molestors and welfare queens in is high standards you need your head screwed on straight

He explains that the right have a lower standard for entry, while the left are quick to socially exile or excommunicate someone whose values fall short. 

In a way, knowing you will live up to a certain point frees you of the worry of smaller things. It's a feedback loop where less stress means you get to live longer.

Do you have free will or not? A God who wants slaves would have never allowed us to know evil and become sinners.

Does God condone slavery? “Condone”, if you consider the origin of the word and its Latin translation (it has the same meaning in Italian), strictly means to forgive or absolve.

God may forgive slavery among His people. However, he does not wish for there to be slaves. God allows sin, although he wants us to not sin. Allowing sin does not mean he accepts it. Yet, he may allow or forgive it. Hebrews were permitted to be servants if they were impoverished, and permitted to own Hebrew slaves to punish. The foreign slaves were treated with mercy, and could sometimes better themselves. Slavery was a common practice by the time Moses received the Torah. What was God to do? 

Mankind is very flawed because God chose for us to have free will, and to not be enslaved. In having free will, we have enslaved others. God wants us to be absolved of all of our sins. God himself is a very complex character. What is for certain is that he wants us to pick the right path, but that not everyone is destined for the right path. The others are on the path, or they are lukewarm. 

Slavery is an issue among men. When Adam and Eve were created, did God grant them a slave? He did not. They were supposed to do their own work. The idea of sexual slavery was foreign, as Adam was only given one woman, and she was to be his wife. What happened? Satan, who too had been given free will as an angel, tempted Eve who tempted Adam. God told them to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, alas, they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Our descent into hell begins here. 

What kind of God would He be if he did not give us a choice? We would be slaves.

I think attempting to say whether God condoned or didn't condone salvery is a very simplistic question on a very complex idea. 

It's well and good to say that God could have simply put into the Bible - "don't own slaves."  He didn't, therefore, he condones slavery. I think that is a very weak argument. 

The number one problem that people have with slavery is stealing people, kidnapping free people against their will and making them slaves.  God ABSOLUTELY condemns kidnapping people - whether they be Jew or Alien.   So I think it is right to say that God does not condone slavery in the way that slavery is conducted in our world today. 

1. The Hebrew word in Exo 21:16 is ish, I believe, which usually referred to an adult male Israelite in the Covenant Code. Almost certainly did not apply to aliens -- you can read this more clearly in Deut 24:7.
   
2. The number one problem I have with slavery is that I think owning another human being is wrong. Whether they were kidnapped, indentured, what have you.
   
3. Seems to assume most slaves were sourced via kidnapping. That isn't true. Slaves could be bought from surrounding nations, captured via conquest, or even pressed into involuntary debt slavery (see 2 Kings 4, where the creditors are coming to take the woman's children as slaves). Girls could be sold into sexual slavery by their fathers. There were many tragic ways people could become slaves without being stolen off an Israelite street. And of course Israel had no way to regulate how slaves were sourced in the nations they purchased from.
   

Another part of the complexity is that in the time that Leviticus was written, EVERY nation on the face of the earth supported slavery. And in every nation apart from Israel, this slavery could arise from kidnapping. So there was already a clear distinction between Israel and other nations.

 Also, back in those days, and interestingly, even in the world in some places today, people would sell themselves to others for a time, known as an indenture. Even the Jews could do this for 7 years. This is a type of slavery. The idea is based on the notion that "we own ourselves". And an important part of those ownership rights of our body, was the right to sell it to someone else.  Today - people don't own their own bodies. (not that the abortion movement cares) The State owns our bodies - and it has done so - since it legislated the idea that no property rights can exist in a human body.  Removing the ownership of property in body, removed the ability to privately sell your body to someone else - but it also effectively proved the point that we are slaves to the State. It owns our body and it tells us what rights we have. 

In those times - people from other cultures could sell their bodies to another person - even to a Jew. In a sense it was a form of welfare. Or perhaps a bank mortgage. 

The Israelites, however could not go looking for people in other cultures to buy slaves. And the reason for that is because the predominant manner in which people became slaves was by kidnapping. 

The other time when Israel needed to consider slavery was in times of war.  What were they to do with the foreigners they captured? If they released them - then they would form part of a group to try and get rid of them. Or they would go back and join the families they came from and start fighting again. The Jews were disliked then probably in the same way they are now. didn't have welfare in those times, so people had to make money somehow to get food.  So they had to do something with them. I suppose they could kill them. But they were captured in war - and unless God said to destroy them - then they couldn't. 

Overall, I think the matter is far too a complex matter to come up with a simplistic answer. 

Did God condone slavery?

God hates slavery. This is why we have free will.

By syntax, over time, and let's not even include the possible distinctions of translation [by ignorance, or by malicious or intended accurate purpose] from Hebrew, the primary O.T. language, the word "slavery" has transitioned from even being descriptive of people charged and convicted of crimes for which a fine is sufficient penalty, and, at one time [such as O.T. era, and in that instance, I don't think slave holders could be classed as "owners," since eventual release is implied] when one could not afford the fine, were placed in indentured servitude, aka [by standards, then] slavery, but only for a designated period. We do not use the term "slavery" for that purpose, today, yet your argument does not include that shift of definition when discussing God's attitude toward the word, as construed, then.

Would you argue God changed his mind? I wouldn't, and multiple biblical, and other holy writ of other religions, sources maintain he is of the same mind forever.

The real question is: do you condone slavery?

Do you drink coffee? Slavery persists on coffee farms. 

I don't need to drink coffee; I have enough energy. In the last 12 hours I have been to the gym for two hours and later ran for 45 minutes. I still cannot sleep. The curse persists, like slavery. 

You probably need coffee, don't you? 

Is there a distinction between "condone" and "acknowledge?"

I believe the answer is Yes.

Condone is tacit approval.

Acknowledge is tacit recognition of existence, but not approval.

The one is not the other, and "tacit" is the demonstraton of that fact. It is recognition that God had expectations of us when we have, to date, failed to observe properly. It is evident that we do not love God as we should, and do not love ourselves as we should.

The  balance of the OT, post-Genesis [which, from Eden, had a simplified insrtruction to have dominion of the Earth for purposes of righteousness [not greed] and understand the distinction of good and evil. The balance of the OT is based upon the Law of Moses which had more strict requirements because the Israelites proved to be less respectful of those initial requirements out of Eden, which should have sufficed. They were, on their own, sufficient to treat one another with respect to to treat God as our Father by following his laws. Out of Eden was a dogma very similar to the two commands offered by Christ when asked to identify "the greatest law." Christ, instead, gave two "greatest" laws which are eternally inseparable: Love God; love our fellow man. Adhering to these, alone, would satisfy, and make of us better people than the Law of Moses ever could, which is why Christ said he came to fulfill the law, not to destroy it. To fulfill law is to step up from what was law to a better law, much like Jimmy Madison proposed in the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States: to be "a more perfect union."

God has been trying to tell us forever, since Eden, that we are free when we follow his advice, and enslave ourselves, nut by him, as we accuse, when we do not.

Nope, most slaves today are illegally enslaved

Thats not even true. Minority are slaves of majority in democracies now. Children are slaves of parents and their government.

Societies today approve of slavery too.

Many haven't realized this but slavery is a part of the gospel message.

I'm not talking about Hebrew Israelite camps that teach they'll enslave so called white folks in heaven.

But true Christians are actually slaves of God which I can get this will push away atheists to far away galaxies beyond measure.

Hence being an atheist, you want your liberty as being your own god .

And slavery is almost universally condemned in the modern world; in the ancient world it was so normative that God himself condoned it.

The condemnation does not mean much when there are millions of slaves in the world, some of whom are enslaved in Western countries, or making products those in Western countries use. Do you think you have never used a product not made by the hands of a slave? What about all the children forced to pick coffee beans? And the fruits you eat? What about the clothes you wear and technology you use? 

Where does it say God condones slavery? God has less to do with slavery than you and I do. He is not using products made by slaves. Take it up with Satan if you dislike slavery.