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@ebuc
does the 'p' mean physical?
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@BrotherDThomas
You are fixated on the Bible, I am not even asserting that the Biblical god is the god I am talking about. That is the primary cause of our misunderstanding.
While you may think you are funny or intriguing with the way you pretend to be a Christian fundamentalist in order to mock them, I find it dull and irritating.
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@Stephen
If God created evil first, it means that God didn't know how to undo evil without ruining what we are.
It is very difficult to create beings with individuality and not creating the evil ones among them. The idea being that God ensured there'd be heroes to balance out the villains with a hindsight aspect.
The opposite would mean that God got so bored of us all caring and sharing that he/she/it intentionally made the evil ones be that way, in order for the 'show' to get more fun to watch.
I did believe this latter version for a long time but I am beginning to realise that God could have made reality far, far crueller if this was the overall aim, whereas God can't have made reality much nicer without making us all clones.
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@BrotherDThomas
It is a matter of semantics to deny that a female demon of the succubus variety, who can reproduce with humans, isn't a woman of sorts.
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@BrotherDThomas
The most ironic part, if you know enough about Jewish Pagan stories, is that it was also a complete lie that Eve was the first female to sin, rather Lilith was and she was deemed to be a non-human succubus (even though physiologically she could reproduce with humans and even produce fertile half-demon offspring making her a different breed that's in our species).
Also interestingly, due to Adam resisting Lilith, the test with Eve and the apple was his second test, not his first. The storyline doesn't add up once you know of the Pagan side of things.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
@ILikePie5
This shit doesn't happen in countries that do whwt you refer to, which have successfully employed the gun-free agenda where cops indeed take guns from citizens.
Of course, I am referring to social democracies that have done it and not some right-wing agenda or tyrannical pseudo-left agenda.
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@thett3
Glad to see you finally realising the hypocrisy and bullshit of right-wing agenda. It literally self refutes at times and indirectly does so in many other ways.
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@Stephen
I am talking about god of reality, not that fictional character but the actual god.
Even if we take the Christian God, who is said to have made good first so isn't the god I am referring to, we see the same dilemma. Evil came first, logically.
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@zedvictor4
I agree, usually atheists are as ignorant and wilfully refusing to think in-depth about the morality of God as Theists themselves are.
I am tolerant of this, what I want is to come to a place on the Internet where people like to chat about it and not be told to stfu and move on like I will everywhere else.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
Sad thing is that the looters themselves won't probably die from the coronavirus, instead they'll spread it to elderly relatives and neighbours who will take the brunt of this event.
We are seeing what happens when sociopathic society faces apathetic police and politicians. This will be a showdown of two brands of immorality; brutal and impulsive vs cold and calculated. We both know that the latter will win in the end but it's a question of how long it will take.
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@oromagi
Mafia will never be this site's specialty anyway, so don't feel bad even on a superficial level.
As for it mattering, of course it doesn't. Real life comes before online life and all of us respect that.
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@VonKlempter
He was racist and violent, this much is true. He did not intend on Fascism and actually is a significant reason that Western Europe is no longer Imperialist.
You cannot simply define Napoleon's role or persona by comparing it to Hitler. Napoleon was a villain but not the clear-cut simple kind of villain who is purely out for themselves. He genuinely had an agenda intended on making Europe more democratic, that much is for sure.
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@whiteflame
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I have spent many years contemplating this issue and at first, I realised the easy solution that atheists use which is to say that God is equally responsible for evil as good and therefore isn't a good guy/chick/thing.
The fundamental cause of good is that evil must be stopped. Think hard about this. In a situation where everyone is neutral, you can't be a good person because the others will repay you back anyway, negating how good you are. If everyone gives as good as they get and acts reasonable, noone and nothing needs to be good at all. What this then means is that the only genuinely active agents, morally, are the evil ones.
In a scenario where everyone is neutral and one evil person shows up, it then means that there is a victim or two and the others staying neutral hurts that person and causes that person to need to be evil in order to even things out again and have equal wealth and health to the others. Thus, the opportunity to be good to that victim and/or be evil to the evildoer only arises due to the initial active evil agent. You can only have good be viable due to the evil breaking away from the default of neutrality.
God must have first created us selfish and brutal, not the other way around, and what happened was that he/she/it discovered the true beauty lies in having good people to prevent the evil.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
I am not the one who voted Yes1.
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@zedvictor4
Will not name names.
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Guy who put the knee on the neck is in deep shit no matter what, the other three should just keep their heads down for around 3 years and alter their appearance and stuff.
You can say 'bystanders' but it is Covid-19 era and I guarantee you that the other cops were extremely afraid to not socially distance from the other cop and the criminal in order to avoid a potentially lethal disease. I am not excusing what happened as 'okay', instead I am trying to explain that the villain is the one who put the knee and people like him need to be exposed.
These riots are going to help Coronavirus spread so rapidly in US vs before, I pity those in Minnesota doing the right thing and staying home being safe or being healthcare workers and shopkeepers among the riots, I am so sorry for them.
You do not defeat barbaric cops by being barbaric populace, this fuels exactly what they want in order to fight back. You must be smart and patient, play this legally and get the murderer put behind bars.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
I am not the one who voted Yes1.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Trust is not what psychopaths think, nor (obviously) what the most naive of us think. It is neither a stupid thing nor a great thing to aim for.
Trust is fundamentally a requirement in all non-solitary animals as they evolved to develop high stress or depression to help them be fast-thinking (stressed) or patient and weary (depressed) to extreme degrees in times of severe betrayal, terror, famine and such. Those that reacted with the correct bursts of hormones in those periods of time were the ones to spread their genes on, hence it being what has become the norm in our species.
As result of that, we are now in a situation in the modern age where trust is actually a rational thing to have, not just a thing that we happen to have. The reason that it's rational is because the community as a whole (not just the individual) will become very prone to stress and depression the less that it fosters trust. This is why we need to have safeguards in place so that the more willing of us to experience stress and depression (and trigger it in others) have significantly stronger incentive to not do so.
This sums up almost every single situation in life and is why the ethos of valuing net-well-being over freedom itself ends up with people better off and sums up why I identify as Progressive. This scenarios reminds me a lot of both gun rights and how right-wingers view taxation and the ability to use money as greedily as one wants vs the needs of the community.
We have option Yes1 as the 'arm all, let them all fight over it equally' ethos (which never happens, people with more to expose on others will always have the upper hand)
^ This is right-wing Libertarianism as well as somewhat Converatism
The option 'No' is actually both attractive to centrists and to anarchists of the socialist variety. The idea being that no one should violate privacy, not even those in power.
The option Yes2 is a healthy balance between the 2 in my opinion and is where we achieve a split of power that ensures those we trust to overlook and protect us have sufficient ability to investigate while the privacy and safety of users is maintained against malicious non-officials. This is closes to the left-wing Progressive ethos.
There would of course be a fourth option of each 'share of PMs' being voted on via referendum that would be truly democratic but unrealistic and would be the utopia for most types except for the malicious ones or severely 'privacy above all' types.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
Not everyone votes solely for selfish gain. I am sure others in the future on this site, if not already, have said things in PM they don't want all to read. If you want a situation of exposing each other, I will embrace it. Just be sure you are ready for it.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
You have nothing to expose because you are scarred by trust being broken in the past so you never trust anyone. What those who voted Yes2 are defending is that trust.
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@Christen
Lol. It is monitoring all your web traffic and that would be fine if the owner were reliably sided against surveillance etc.
It is openly owned by Moscow operatives who are doing shady business in Cyprus.
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@Vader
Purple variant https://i.imgur.com/7P11zc2.jpg
White variant (updated as requested) https://i.imgur.com/lEB8AeN.jpg
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@Christen
Just so you know, AdGuard is almost certainly spyware for Russians. Look at who owns it and how much it can monitor and put 2 and 2 together.
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@Vader
Other than the motion blur, what else would you change?
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@ResurgetExFavilla
Instead of arguing that mods can abuse Yes2, argue why the general user with a grudge won't abuse Yes1.
The latter is far more likely if we take reputation and past events into account.
The latter is far more likely if we take reputation and past events into account.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Then you will be blamed and at least flagged for what they typed, by the authorities.
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I still don't understand why you'd opt for Brave browser, but to each their own.
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@David
On a phone, switch to the Desktop site and go to the Debates page, moving towards the bottom right.
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@PressF4Respect
In a smartphone, on your browser's settings panel, there's usually a tickbox option to swotch it to the desktop site. This website used to only have that available, now you actually get to choose.
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@David
@Discipulus_Didicit
@PressF4Respect
@User_2006
மற்ற நபர் தட்டச்சு செய்ததை ஒட்டுவதன் மூலம் நீங்கள் மொழிபெயர்க்கிறீர்கள். எனவே, அவர்கள் அச்சுறுத்தல் அல்லது தீவிர பார்வையைத் தட்டச்சு செய்திருந்தால், நீங்கள் அதை Google மொழிபெயர்ப்பில் தட்டச்சு செய்திருப்பீர்கள்.
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@whiteflame
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@Vader
@Dr.Franklin
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@David
@PressF4Respect
மதிப்பீட்டாளர்கள் ஒவ்வொரு இடுகையும் மொழிபெயர்க்க விரும்பினால், எனது விருந்தினராக இருங்கள்.
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@Dr.Franklin
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@David
@Barney
Make it a policy in CoC to speak English.
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RM if it wasn't clear is a conspiracy theorist.His head too far up is own behind to comprehend this and other flaws he has.
And what flaws do you have, Mr. Perfection? This conspiracy theorist has correctly spotted alt abusers, stated that Virtuoso should have taken over as chief moderator from the start, found more glitches and made more suggestions for site inprovement than most others put together and been willing to admit when he was wrong too.
I like this conspiracy theorist, he seems like someone who doesn't need to insult others to feel good about himself.
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This is an English speaking website. Moderators can't easily spot abuse or trolling in another language and itsit excludes most of the userbase from participating in the conversation, so please don't do that.
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Answer the following questions:
- Stimulants, depressants or hallucinogens?
- Compassion, justice or loyalty?
- Between strategic cunning, IQ, creative thinking and fast thinking, which displays intelligence in its finest form?
Do this and I will give you an image that represents you.
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@PressF4Respect
Anyways, some suggestions I have to improve the site overall would be to make it so that you can save rough drafts of your debate arguments in your debates and come back to it later, and also save rough drafts of your forum posts. Like if i'm debating someone, and I type half of my argument, but then it's like my bedtime or something, I want to be able to save that argument as a rough draft and come back to it later the next day to finish typing the other half of my argument. Sites like Reddit already let you do this, so I don't see why this site can't do that too. Right now, you have to either finish your entire argument, or delete your entire argument and re-type everything later when you have more time. You could also copy your current half of your argument and paste into something like notepad and save it so you could come back to it and copy and re-paste everything, but then it loses the formatting and stuff.This is actually a really good idea (honestly not sure why no one's thought of it before)
It is already possible, less so with forum posts but they do save to temporary cookies to a degree.
With debates, click 'preview argument' but don't publish it. It's now saved and will reappear the next time you go to write your argument for that debate.
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I hope this helps Trump to lose the next election, I really loathe him with a passion.
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I think that the one who put his knee and stuff should be charged but the other 3 it's shaky ground, legally.
We are in a coronavirus era where they are scared to be within 2 metres of their fellow cop, let alone the guy on the ground who easily could have had it. It wasn't so easy to do the right thing, risk catching it, fighting their colleague off of the man's body and to have the presence of mind in that situation to come up with the exact plan of when and how to do that vs just letting their colleague do the arrest.
We have to also understand that they are loyal to one another and it's actually strange to assume that the others would just throw the cop to the 'wolves' and say he murdered straight up, when what happened in their eyes is manslaughter and they are loyal to each other and him. I am not saying that they did the right thing, they didn't and their cowardice has lost them their jobs and permanetly cost them their careers and reptuation but when we discuss the legal procedures and severity of what went down, the one who actually had his knee on the neck is the one who should be convicted.
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@Dr.Franklin
If you mean the Brave Browser ad on the Debates page, that shows even if you have adblock because it's a site-enforced thing (but you can manually get it not to show).
It's in the bottom-right, not bottom-left, of a computer browser page and on smartphones it shows at the bottom or something.
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@Dr.Franklin
He is definitely a misunderstood individual.
He was in a precarious position between the Illuminati helping him (and his dream of ruling) versus the way he wanted Europe to become more democratic and less prone to Imperialism. Unfortunately for him, because he was too 'ends justify the means', he ended up using Imperialist tactics of invading and maintaining rule and when finally he began to turn good, Illuminati ensured he lost the Battle of Waterloo.
Trust me on this, he was going to win the Battle of Waterloo had a certain Illuminati family not gotten involved. Do the research and you'll know, I won't name names.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
True genius can't be emulated, though indeed many will try. In fact, this is the defining trait of a genius style and methodology of doing something.
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I was opposed to Ragnar at the beginning. When he was recruited, he had displayed very little supporting him to be a good person or realiable moderator. Nonetheless, since then it has been apparent that he has put a lot of effort into the moderating of the website and while I still think that bias is a factor in his decisions. It seems that his bias is actually wise now, based strongly on keeping toxic people away from being toxic while letting nicer users have second chances).
Of course, I do not doubt that Virtuoso being Chief Moderator has helped Ragnar to make wise decisions, I do notice something that you can't fake; no user complains about the moderators anymore except for extremely toxic ones. The most I see in the religion forums in a rage is 'omg I have to take time off the website because I was rightfully temp-banned'.
I feel like this website has moderators who do not factor in your popularity into their decisions, but instead factor in your potential for improving your behaviour and willingness to take on board what they say. That is exactly what moderation and even the police IRL are supposed to do and I am very happy this is being done.
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@User_2006
DDO used to be more glorious than the present-day DArt.
Everyone who thinks this is either toxic, long gone or delusional. DDO was a corrupt place where popularity was what moderation depended upon. Bsh1 even began to turn DARt into that but thankfully was ousted just in time.
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@PressF4Respect
Or maybe something like, "Debates which require votes."That would help direct voters to the debates which need them the most
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@triangle.128k
Since it's obvious that 'no' isn't winning the PM sharing, would you mind changing to Yes2, in order to prevent Yes1 (the much more lenient one) winning?
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@Stephen
What he links to suggests that Satan is God. I will concede that for many that inherently follows on mean that Jesus is Lucifer.
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