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  • That’s what he said, true. You should pay more attention to what he did. I’m talking about Jesus the character here, because I don’t really believe that such a person actually existed. But if he could multiply bread and fishes, then he could multiply swords and arrows. If he could heal the sick, and kill trees with a thought, then he could sicken the healthy. If he could turn water into wine, well, people are 80% water and alcohol is lethal in large doses. If he could take demons out of a person’s body, force them into pigs and then make those pigs commit mass suicide, he could have chosen Roman soldiers instead of the pigs. But he didn’t.

    Yes, he flipped out once, when he saw that people were using a place he considered sacred to turn a quick buck by scamming the faithful. That’s understandable. The fact is (as far as I can use the word “fact” for a fictional character) that he could have used his divine powers to make it rain blood on his enemies, both figuratively and literally, like some of the prophets before him had done (e.g. ten plagues of Egypt, siege of Jericho), but didn’t. He chose to let himself be killed instead just to set an example. That’s hardcore pacifism.







  • It’s telling that these people allegedly believe a person to literally be an all-wise God but they still think that they know better than him.

    And what’s with “that doesn’t work anymore” as an excuse? Why doesn’t that line of reasoning apply to genital mutilation, female subservience to husbands, homophobia and all those other pre-Jesus positions that they still continue to justify based on their alleged faith?

    The hypocrisy is transparent. They might as well come out and say that they’ll just believe whatever is convenient and expect other people to treat those beliefs as sacred. I might actually respect them a little if they did.



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    11 months ago

    Well, mental disorders are spectrums. It’s not either you’re completely sane or you’re the mayor of cuckoo town. It goes in shades.

    If you identify with five or so items on that list of 21, that’s fine. You’re still in the “nornal” zone. If you identify with 16, like I do, that’s ADHD. And I do have an official diagnosis from an actual psychiatrist, thank you very much.


  • There’s a difference between time not passing and not existing. To a photon, space (in the direction of its movement) doesn’t exist, as its origin and destination points are the same. But time does not pass - the axis of time is there, but the photon never budges in either direction, like a rock buried in the middle of the desert doesn’t move in any spatial direction on a human timescale. The photon’s beginning and end aren’t simultaneous, quite the opposite. Since it can’t move in time, they might as well be infinitely far apart.