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@Stephen
Religion in Ukraine is diverse, with a majority of the population adhering to Christianity.
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@GnosticChristianBishop
I think this proves that morals are subjective. The Inca's sacrificed children to their Gods. Child sacrifice in the Incan Empire was performed as part of the capacocha ritual. Children were chosen because they were thought to be the purest of society, therefore the best people to offer to the gods. Previous research suggests victims would be chosen many years in advance—hair samples from victims indicated they were "fattened up" in the years leading to their deaths.
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@n8nrgim
Remember that humans are divided into Worm Man and Intelligent Man. Fortunately, you are Intelligent Man. You can guess what side Trump voters fall.
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@oromagi
People like Putin and Steve Bannon, for that matter, understand it’s not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions. You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe.Once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of truth, the game’s won. And as Putin discovered leading up to the 2016 election, our own social media platforms are well designed to support such a mission, such a project.
I think this is very insightful.
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Alex Jones attended Anderson High School, where he played football and graduated in 1993. After graduating, Jones briefly attended Austin Community College before dropping out. As a teenager, he read None Dare Call It Conspiracy, a book by John Birch Society theorist Gary Allen, which alleged global bankers controlled American politics rather than elected officials. It had a profound influence on him, and Jones has described Allen's work as "the easiest-to-read primer on The New World Order".
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@RationalMadman
Remember that the Inca's sacrificed children to their Gods. Child sacrifice in the Incan Empire was performed as part of the capacocha ritual. Children were chosen because they were thought to be the purest of society, therefore the best people to offer to the gods. Previous research suggests victims would be chosen many years in advance—hair samples from victims indicated they were "fattened up" in the years leading to their deaths.
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@TheUnderdog
Macron wants UHC, gun control, supports speech codes, supports free college, is an open femenist, is agnostic, wants open borders and free healthcare for foreigners. He would be a lefty here in 'Murica.
True dat.
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@secularmerlin
An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. Sometimes certain neuron connections don't work properly.
God would have flunked out of MIT.
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@coal
Mike Caulfield is currently a research scientist leading the UW Center for an Informed Public's rapid response efforts. He has worked with various organizations on digital literacy initiatives to combat mis- and disinformation, including the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ American Democracy Project, the National Writing Project, and CIVIX Canada. He is an awardee of the Rita Allen/RTI Misinformation Solutions Prize and the author of an award-winning open textbook, “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers.”
As a member of the CIP team working as part of the Election Integrity Partnership, he identified, tracked and responded to mis- and disinformation about voting during the 2020 U.S. elections. He was a major contributor to the EIP’s October 2020 “What to Expect on Election Night and Days After” analysis, which laid out anticipated mis- and disinformation narratives about voting and how uncertainty, anxiety, and potential red-to-blue and blue-to-red shifts in voting results due to when mail-in ballots would be counted in various states would create opportunities for domestic and foreign political actors, conspiracy theorists, and other opportunists to delegitimize the election results.
He developed the SIFT method for fact-checking (Stop, Investigate, Find better coverage, and Trace claims) and related classroom instruction modules that have been used in hundreds of universities and high schools in the U.S. and Canada. He is currently co-PI on an NSF grant exploring the teaching of SIFT and other lateral reading techniques to adult populations.
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@secularmerlin
Psychological and neuroscience research both tell us that morality, our mental ability to tell right from wrong in our behaviors and the behaviors of others, is a product of evolution. Morality has been passed on through the course of evolution because it helps us to live in large social groups by enhancing our ability to get along and interact with others. “Building blocks” of morality, such as sensing fairness, experiencing empathy, and judging others’ harmful and helpful actions, can be observed in infancy, before a child’s social environment would be able to have a strong influence. Specific parts of the human brain are involved in moral reasoning – both the kind that happens very quickly and the kind that is thought out. Damage to certain parts of the brain can dramatically alter moral judgment and behavior. Although human morality has been passed down through evolution, it is also dependent on the culture in which we grow up. What humans consider to be moral behavior varies from culture to culture and also varies across time.
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@rosends
My Great Grandparents on my Mother's side were Jewish and lived in Germany.
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@Barney
Well, I am younger than Trump, but only by a few months.
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@Greyparrot
Contrary to popular belief, illegal invaders often have documentation saying who they are.
You are talking about Melania's Einstein visa, right?
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@TheUnderdog
It's from: 20 amazing facts about the human body
3 ATOM COUNT
It is hard to grasp just how small the atoms that make up your body are until you take a look at the sheer number of them. An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
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@n8nrgmi
Does anybody know why God used 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms to make 1 human?
This could be a big problem for quality control.
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@Barney
I'm American....But mention the name Barney and I think of only one person...Barney Fife.
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@TheMorningsStar
I think what secularmerlin is saying is that Anecdotal Evidence does not stand up to Direct Evidence.
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@secularmerlin
Don't forget that Jim Parsons is my brother.
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@Lemming
Are you a Utilitarian now?
I think he is a Pescatarian.
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Joel Osteen is an American televangelist, author, and well-known pastor who was a net worth of $100 million.
3.2 million children under the age of 5 die each year in sub-Saharan Africa - that's about half of the world's deaths in this age group. Worldwide, nearly every second death in children under the age of five is due to malnutrition.
God is Amoral.
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@oromagi
Like I have said before, the USA is separating into Worm Man and Intelligent Man.
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@thett3
People being born in the “wrong” bodies and actually being a member of the opposite sex is not a fact.
Actually it is. The human body consists of some 37.2 trillion cells. Doy you think that all these cells work perfectly?
The experience of being gender nonconforming means that a person’s gender at birth (assigned gender) does not match the way they feel about themselves (their affirmed gender).
Gender is expressed through one’s personality, appearance and behavior — typically as either masculine or feminine. Gender nonconformity can appear as young as two or three years of age, when children become aware of the notion of gender and they may assert, “No, I’m a boy,” or “No, I’m a girl.”
Exploring different modes and expressions of gender is a normal part of development during childhood. Young kids often playact favorite characters of a different gender, or enjoy playing dress-up. Most eventually assume the identity of their assigned gender. For some children, gender remains fluid. These kids often identify as non-binary or gender-nonconforming.
Gender is expressed through one’s personality, appearance and behavior — typically as either masculine or feminine. Gender nonconformity can appear as young as two or three years of age, when children become aware of the notion of gender and they may assert, “No, I’m a boy,” or “No, I’m a girl.”
Exploring different modes and expressions of gender is a normal part of development during childhood. Young kids often playact favorite characters of a different gender, or enjoy playing dress-up. Most eventually assume the identity of their assigned gender. For some children, gender remains fluid. These kids often identify as non-binary or gender-nonconforming.
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Experience and testimony is evidence. Putin is a Christian. The Russian president's Orthodox faith is central to his worldview but he has used it to justify invasion and violence in God's name.
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@zedvictor4
Yes, Anglo-Saxon pagans celebrated this time of rebirth by invoking Ēostre or Ostara, the goddess of spring, the dawn, and fertility. Particularly in ancient times, fertility was of singular importance to ensure the survival of a species or group of people (after all, if you didn't get it on, there would be no future generations). To celebrate nature’s “rebirth,” the ancients would hold festivals in April to honor the Goddess, which most likely included lavish sex rituals, and even full-on orgies.
Ancient tribal people were no strangers to sex rituals: worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, fertility, and madness, would hold orgies in order to celebrate and evoke the ecstatic state of the son of Zeus. Ultimately, in the ancient traditions, sex didn’t have the same shameful taboos like it does today.
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Putin's eye's are close together. I think he has Nonsyndromic holoprosencephaly.
- In the less severe forms, the brain is partially divided and the eyes are usually set close together (hypotelorism). The life expectancy of these affected individuals varies depending on the severity of symptoms.
He may know he is dying, so he will start WWIII.
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@Athias
I think the argument is:
P1. God is omniscient and omnipotent.
P2. Bad things like child rape, and malicious murders occur.
P3. God is either responsible for the occurrence of child rape and malicious murders (i.e. being the cause of all events), or indirectly responsible through inaction.
C. Therefore God Doesn't Exist.
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@ILikePie5
This says everything that needs to be said about you
Dosvedanya
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Individuals age at such differing rates that some grow older three times faster than other people of the same age, a new study has found. US scientists who conducted the study on a group of 38-year-olds found that their biological ages ranged from 28 to 61. Don't you think that this is poor quality control?
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@Athias
God knowingly made the brains, bodies and life events of each individual that commits the crimes against humanity that Double_R describes.
By that very same metric, God has also made the brains, bodies, and life events of each individual who have never committed a crime, who contribute large amounts of time and labor to their communities, and live content lives. Again, you would have to establish how inaction or non-interference establishes amoralit
This is all due to God's lack of knowledge of Quality Control. This is why God got voted off of MasterGod.
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@n8nrgmi
The Green Party
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@RationalMadman
I'm still suprised that he is not using CoolApe's profile pic.
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See: Christianity Isn’t Immoral—It’s Amoral
August 3, 2012
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I don’t really see the problem. Just think this instead.
An idea that’s often trotted out when atheists ask for concrete evidence of God’s existence is that if he gave us concrete proof, we wouldn’t be able to make an independent decision. Such an explanation is preposterous. Imagine an earthly analog: a lawyer who has evidence that will conclusively vindicate his client, but won’t show it to the jury because that would unfairly sway their verdict. Giving people a reason to believe something does not diminish the strength or validity of that belief. If anything, it enhances it. We could fake it and say that we believe whatever is asked of us to believe, but God’s omniscient, remember? Faking it obviously won’t work on him.
So let’s return to the “only faith matters” idea. If murder, genocide, and slavery can be wiped clean by genuine penitence and regret for what you’ve done, reopening the door to heaven — and they can, clearly — the law is no longer relevant. In fact, Jesus himself broke the law when he refused to punish an adulteress (or her strangely absent partner-in-crime) in the gospel of John, chapter 8. The law is unequivocal: adulterers must be stoned. God said so. But Jesus violated that mandate. Furthermore, the phrase “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” implies that only the sinless can punish the sinful, and no human being can be sinless. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Couple that with Jesus’ charge in Matt 5:38, “Do not resist one who is evil,” and you have a framework for removing human law altogether. We’re no longer allowed to tell other people what’s right and wrong, and if they do wrong, we’re not allowed to stop them. We as humans have been effectively forbidden from exacting justice on our fellow human beings in any form.
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Well, incumbent Vladimir Putin won reelection for his second consecutive (fourth overall) term in office with 77% of the vote.
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@zedvictor4
True dat
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@ebuc
Maybe Trump was eating pizza for 7-1/2 hours.
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@sadolite
Maybe Dr.Franklin will sell you his Klan robes and hood for your profile pic.
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@Greyparrot
I think you mean Tim Fool. “A coward and a phony,” “a joke,” “staggeringly arrogant,” “totally full of shit,” “not smart” and “a bumbling doofus” are a representative sample of how those who worked with Pool at digital media companies described him. Most did so on the condition of anonymity, in some instances citing possible reprisals by Pool and harassment from his fans.
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Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up." When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!"
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it is forbidden to lay with a beast in Leviticus
That didn't stop Melania, did it?
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Morality has a biological basis: we use certain parts of our brains in making decisions about right and wrong, some intuitive in nature ("grossness", "massive harm", "me involved in causing massive harm") and some rational calculation (" other people are deserving of being treated with the respect I would like myself", "more people would be hurt by this than helped"). So it exists. The fact you cannot concoct an argument demonstrating by logical proof that your outcome on what is moral is always going to be identical to another person does not change this. People still make moral decisions, feel guilt, apologize, try to make amends, etc. regardless of an Ideal World of perfect answers to moral dilemmas.
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@RationalMadman
I'm suprised that Greyparrot hasn't stolen CoolApe's profile picture.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I'm just sayimg that God doesn't know anything about quality control and was why he got voted off MasterGod when he showed them the Earth.
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