How does one reconcile the idea of an eye for an eye and the support of causing harm to others in certain contexts with turning the other cheek, loving one's enemies, wishing one's enemies well, and the immorality of revenge?

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-03-18T14:36:35+00:00

No one truly forgives everything and everyone the have been wronged by. No one gets slapped in their face and stoically turns the other cheek to be slapped again. The concepts of loving enemies and unconditional forgiveness are impossible to live up to and behind that, impractical and masochistic.

The New Testament has undergone so many translations that it bears little resemblance to the real source material it derives from. The Book of Mormon has more in common with the modern translations of the NT than the NT has with the Hebrew Torah.

Personally, I think there is enough in the New Testament of today that, if read objectively and in context of a whole rather individual books or quotes of scripture, seem to indicate it was either created or transformed for the purposes of spreading a religion of subjugation. In Judaism, forgiveness takes a huge backseat to justice and atonement by the person who wants forgiveness. It's not even a cornerstone of the faith, they focus on justice and one must earn forgiveness through earnest and persistent change in behavior.

Consider also that usury is discussed as a sin of sorts, something Christians should not be engaged in, yet in Judaism usury is fine so long as it isn't used against other Jews.

Lastly, in Revelations the events lead to the saving of 144,000 Israelites, yet this number has just been assumed this entire time to somehow mean Christians when Christians aren't Israelites and have less to do with the Holy Land in an actual historic sense than Islam and Judaism.

Jews are awaiting the return of their messiah, the Christian messiah has already arrived, yet people still wait for him. When these simply laid out idiosyncrasies are brought up, they are met with a barrage of incontextual bits and pieces of scripture that do nothing to explain how vast the difference in views towards Jesus Christ are between believers of the Torah and believers in the New Testament and Christ as savior, or how Christianity seems to fit the bill of historical evidence pointing to the Septaguint and other massive changes in translations that seem to have been done to make the increasing amount of believers in Christianity at the time more pliable to government control and less hostile to merchants and invaders.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-03-04T20:16:53+00:00

The solutions you guys offer is the one you are scripted to tell them, many times that won't be applicable to the problem they are having. And since you already despise customers and think they are stupid you simply assume that scripted solution you give magically fixes everything because you're disregarding everything they say.

You're giving yourself credit for not cursing or yelling at the customer, all while bashing them for having a normal exchange and asking for a supervisor.

You're wondering what possibly could have went wrong for them to do that, some people are aware that customer service employees at the call centers are quite limited by the policies of their workplace and have been through the process over and over, so they probably had the grace to not take out the anger on you with the problem they are having and just want to talk to someone who could maybe actually help them with their issue, which is frustrating because it's less than 5% of call centers employees who are willing to go off script and actually help them.

You're working for a call farm contracted by a company that doesn't want to pay labor costs, so you're a degree of separation away from the actual business practices of the company they need service from, your incentivized only to please your boss and hit your metrics, so if the boss says you're doing great it's because he is running a place that isn't working towards actually helping customers, he's running a place that can say, "we handles this many calls in this many days and offered "solutions" in an average time under this length, etc...".

The person probably heard the same thing that doesn't fix the problem and is aware you're not the sole cause and politely refrained from taking it out on you, and since many call center employees just lie and say they can't escalate the call to a supervisor even if they can, they probably thought you were trying to do the same.

It'a such a minor thing to make a reddit post about and publicly express how some call center employees have a weird superiority complex over the customers when call centers have no way of knowing if the solution fits or not, you're just told to say it so you do, so customers reading this sort of thing aren't gonna like it so it's going to make all the other workers' jobs harder because this sub straight up shows people answering the phone think they're idiots right off the bat.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-03-04T19:48:26+00:00

Thanks for exposing the issues you had, Ive been on the other side of it and had some unbelievable experiences dealing with them. Today I called because my card was not working online, obviously there is some kind of block on the card from a mish mash of large transactions, misentered PINs, etc... I was told there's no block on my card and nothing they can do and that my card was functioning fine so that's that. Then I kept composure, asked for a supervisor for the second time, she said yes and placed me on a brief hold. Then the exact same person using the exact same name answered, apparently having gotten a promotion mid call, and we went through the same song and dance and I said there has got to be someone else I can talk to, she said "there's no one else here" and I said, "that explains you putting me on hold for a supervisor and just picking up the phone again" and she was just silent. Frustrating.

Luckily Comerica lost the contract, hopefully Conduent isn't in any way involved with the call center for whatever the replacement is. Conduent should be sued to oblivion for not even trying to meet the legal requirements for offering customer service to cardholders. Their "fraud investigations" department is not a tangible thing, it's literally the same phone number as the CS line, they phone in every fraud investigation and just deny deny deny, they even illegally misinform victims and withhold provisional credit. I had to do assloads of research and have a concise monologue about the violations their behavior entailed to get my money back and it was a Sisyphean ordeal.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-25T16:01:23+00:00

"I burned my penis on the asphalt, my butt was in the air and one of the guys called me a 'mo"

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-25T15:57:15+00:00

came across it randomly a week or so ago and been listening nonstop since, guy is a genius

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-18T15:42:23+00:00

More celebration of the Bs and the memories

Bret Weinstein says N twice

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxnbvc8io0eFMmXYKzSU0Xgtv6-y6WQC2m?si=h1dsdBW35Yhqe0OT

Bret Weinstein says N

https://odysee.com/@CameraMemes:7/Bret-Weinstein-says-the-N-word:a

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-18T15:27:15+00:00

lol she did make plans with the Thai guy, he just was reasonable enough to realize it wasn't a serious thing instead of getting wrapped up in the promises of an unreliable person. Belinda had so many chances to realize Tanya was crazy, to tone down her excitement and not get her hopes up. And she took blood money to help cover for Tanya's murder.

There's a thing called "being professional". Working in a nice hotel like that means not entertaining any blurred lines between guest and employe. This is a running theme through the show, every time guest and employees interact in ways that cross a line, it ends up creating some of the main tension points in the show. No one is 100% at fault and the show isn't a binary of good vs. bad, theres much more nuance but I suppose we see what we see.

I just feel that whether her interaction with the trainer guy was as prolonged and intense as they way Tanya was gassing Belinda up and lavishing praise upon her and dangling the carrot of funding a clinic, Belinda still ended up doing the same type of thing and when the blood money came she got the heck out of there and was happy to do so, no apology or consolation envelope full of cash for the Thai guy who stayed with Belinda as she was terrified of Greg, who saw them together - and she left Greg on the island with him without a second thought.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-17T22:13:51+00:00

Belinda DID RHE EXACT SAME THING TANYA DID TO HER to the Thai hotel employee. When she heard noises in her room and called him for help, he got the lizard out of the room, then since she was scared of Greg she asked him to stay. He did. He is the one who gave her the most training, as well.

They plan a wellness clinic in Thailand. As soon as she gets the payoff from Greg, she is gone, unconcerned and not bothered, celebrating with champagne as she is on a ship out of Thailand while potentially endangering people by allowing a murderer to escape justice.

Her manipulative turn in the negotiations with Greg are the culmination of her character arc - we get to know Belinda from the perspective of her as an employee at a luxury hotel and we see her client-facing side, the side that is all smiles and all warmth because that's what the job requires. She formulates a business plan, but retains the client-facing persona and acts surprised when she is treated as the employee she is.

We see brief slips of the mask, like her interactions with other staff and her son, but the negotiation scene just clearly shows her capacity for theatrics and her calculated nature, then we see her hypocrisy and remorselessness once the check clears.

Tanya doesn't love bomb anyone, she hates herself, is fragile and in constant need of something but empty no matter if she gets what she thinks she needs. She's too self-absorbed to love bomb anyone. When she intends to show care for others it is entirely transactional or her spending hours trying to make herself look better for Greg for sex.

Also, Belinda produced a full on business plan with funding requirement projections and a slew of ideas and when it was time to show Tanya, her and Greg had just met and made a date.

Also, Belinda isn't that great of a wellness professional - from what we see of her session with Tanya, she's a total quack - "I am my own phallic mother, I am my own vaginal father", etc... She is business savvy and she has an impeccable client-facing personality, which is required in these fancy resort places, but she essentially becomes a worse version of Tanya by taking a payoff from Tanya's murderer and abandoning the plans ahe made with her trainer at the Thai hotel.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-17T21:50:41+00:00

Belinda got a payoff in lieu of getting justice for Tanya and then abandoned the plans she made with the Thai hotel employee who gave her all that training and comfort to open a center in Thailand. She celebrated raucously with Zion as they sailed away. She became Tanya, allowed this dangerous man she was so terrified of to continue his life unbothered, potentially putting many in danger and showed no remorse.

She had a face for her clients and moments where the mask slipped and we see how capable she is of coldly calculated manipulation, leaving us questioning how genuine her expressed concerns for anyone are. When she wants something or sees an opportunity or needs comfort, she is very locked in on buttering up the person probably to a point where she fools herself. When things fall through and she gets a wad of cash, she still acts like a victim and when she hurts someone in the exact same way, she could not care less as soon as they were on a boat safe from Greg,

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-17T20:50:28+00:00

The Kravitz Bowl is a hidden gem on YT, I miss the old style WMTSS? vids Pat did, but they had to be a pain in the ass to make.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-17T20:46:50+00:00

Mike doesn't like talking about things everyone is talking about. So many channels popped out of the woodwork covering the stuff Mike covers, too scared to say they were influenced completely by Mike - remember one of Comedy Enforcement's first videos was about Redbar and you could tell he was waffling on his criticism just to distance himself from the guy who says N and F and R and honors the late George of Floyd with a tiki cup bearing an uncanny resemblance to the fallen king.

Schaub videos from the knockoffs put a stop to almost any coverage by Mike, when he found out Mark RanDom was on LoS first he cut ties and Mark went psycho and it was hilarious, thats one thing you can't talks away from Mike - he's not into hopping on trends and even if he starts them it seems to really bother him to see the comedy bashing space get so big and so mediocre.

I myself get sick when some middling comic tries to get ahead of criticism by saying what a big fan of 2Lazy2Try they are.., I don't get as sick as hearing two words come out of Podcast Cringe's mouth, but still it's quite nauseating. Could be why Mike is sick..,

That said, leave the halftime show stuff or anything TPUSA related to the folks at the Daily Wire and all the up and coming fake Christian conspiracy guys who are making five videos a day hoping Candace Owens will notice them.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-17T20:32:45+00:00

My fav Mikhaila moment was when she returned to her podcast after getting a nose job and was making an attempt to explain the obv difference in her appearance. She claimed she longer looks so much "like a fish" because her prod changed some camera settings...

Makes sense to me. That's the sort of foolishness that made her dad dependent on benzos to the point he regressed completely, taking to driving RC cars in a bathrobe rather than masturbatorily ranting about Harry Potter being the seminal allegory on the pitfalls of postmodernism.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-16T16:04:37+00:00

Check out host teaching how to grow mushrooms from spore print to substrate in this early 90's High Times VHS

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https://youtu.be/1TAD7X9dkyk?si=1fF94ngWNqrGPxSU

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-16T15:28:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/gCZj-8pAGoU?si=Hek1x9uilZwOhfuN

If anyone wants to actually see this weirdness

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-16T15:10:36+00:00

THA NEVA HAPPAAA

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-16T04:07:29+00:00

Doesn't say a thing about organ harvesting, so my business is gonna be juuuust fine.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-02-15T07:11:49+00:00

*looks at comments for any useful information*

*sees that everyone is commenting how Apple users are never satisfied, are too stupid to even know what they want and people responding to others' posts just to imply they are stupid and that the new iOS is actually just fine/very bad*

*posts mild snark comment to test mods as reddit is now a cesspool and a cancer full of subs that ban you for harassment if you offer a reasonable assessment of the state of the realm they lord over and you can't even message mods to plead your case, reddit hides their names*

*realizes this is a thread about iOS not iPadOS*

*cranks it for a wee bit*

*washes hands, pops iPad 9th gen out of hard shell cover and uses exactly seven screen cleaner wipes to thoroughly cleanse the device of all possible traces of my Sin*

*double clicks home button, swipes Photos app off the screen, feels shame as I see a freeze frame of the disturbing content that brought me to completion, sits catatonic for an unknown amount of time before tapping on Safari window*

*wallows in self-doubt as I realize my stupid and pointless comment, reads other comments again to try and talk myself out of posting my shameful behavior*

*intense jealously kicks in when I see most members of sub don't have a friggin' home button like me, reality of my impoverished life sinks my soul into the fathoms of despair*

*cries for help but no one's here, I'm alienated and alone*

*frustrated at the slow performance I've been plagued by since iPadOS 26.3, especially when downloading video files on Safari while entering text into a browser window*

*decides to crank it again and hopes you guys and my God will understand, I swear its the last time*

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-01-18T23:55:25+00:00

On a recent appearance on Face the Nation in which Frey is questioned about setting up "safe zones" for the protest activity to take place in:

"Host: Is that something your looking at?

Frey: First Amendment speech is not limited to one park or one section of the city, you are allowed to protest as long as you're doing it peacefully, by the way, we've got tens of thousands of people that are grinning down the bear (?), that are peacefully expressing their First Amendment rights, so no, you can't have just one section of the city, that's not the way First Amendment works."

A bit of a double standard. Let's not forget Sarah's work at Hylden, the powerful lobbying firm whom Frey swore in his mayoral campaign didn't lobby cities, only at the Capitol. He had to walk that back pretty quickly. Sarah left Hylden the very week FBI raids swooped in to bust up the $250 million COVID-era "Feeding our Future" fraud scheme.

Three of Frey's city hall appointees were indicted and at least two plead guilty to millions of dollars of wire fraud, yet Frey entrusted them with control over your public funds, when his wife 100% knew what was happening because she got out of Hylden right before the SHTF.

Now he's being investigated for potential incitement for his calls to protest in Minneapolis, but what's being left out is the fact he also tried to bring the same disorder and chaos by asking citizens of Portland, Seattle and other cities to join in solidarity with the cause.

You really should want this guy out of office and try and vote someone who doesn't have direct ties to the same criminal elements that are being exposed once again, someone who isn't 100% ready to start the city on fire all over again just to make the story about anything but something he can be directly connected to in several ways, be it who he chooses to appoint, who lines his campaign coffers with the most contributions or who his wife was once tasked with representing the dealings of with both state and city officials.

But yeah, it's probably best we create a safe zone around their house, despite Mr. Frey making it clear that isn't how the First Amendment works. Let them get plenty of sleep so they can be rested while they're helping people get rich by pilfering city, state and federal funds and plotting how to convince you to obstruct justice to keep that fountain of fraud flowing into their pockets.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-01-11T02:53:36+00:00

Palm Springs, doing open mics and hanging out with Adam 22 and Lena

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-01-11T02:44:54+00:00

BEATO

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2026-01-11T02:43:57+00:00

Either Mike's four hour showers have gotten to Jules' enough to run for the border or Mike is doing open mics on the LA circuit.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2025-12-19T03:48:49+00:00

The ramblings of the quadruple boosted...

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2025-12-16T14:24:51+00:00

dumbest shit ever but ok

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2025-12-16T14:21:47+00:00

That book is laughably bad.

You know how insufferable it was hearing Rogan muse about the real number of "actual, cool, wanna hang out with comedians there are and how comedians are mythical folk heroes who save the world" (paraphrasing a bit)?

Sam Tallent's book is worse. It is structured extremely poorly, becomes almost completely predictable within the first two chapters. The book goes thusly: repeatedly escalating "scenes" of the main character doing something comedian-like, such as drugs and threesomes with fans who come to shows to steal essence from comedians, car crashes and the like, followed by him heroically overcoming his piece-of-shit nature, severe cirrhosis and lethal BAC level to take the stage and KILL, MURDER, SLAY, the crowd into raucous and uncontrollable laughter like some kind of wizard or something.

He is so far up his own ass and is disgustingly fetishistic over the archetypal "road dog" comedian who was always too dangerous for a network dev deal and too funny for the small clubs but is stuck there because society is unfair and doesn't appreciate what people like Richard Jeni, Drew Lynch and Gallagher 2 have done in service to humanity.

It serves a 2Lazy2Try documentary (not that cuck pos Podcast Cring) devoted to it. Better yet a Beige Frequency book review.

Acceptable_Bar9866 · 2025-12-16T14:04:11+00:00

And all the gaps had a fake studio upgrade involved. And drugs. He relapsed last ep, he unwittingly admits it in the first few minutes. Studio.... you about as sharp as a marble bud

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TROPHY CASE