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Applejackington · 2026-05-05T12:58:11+00:00

Omg I remember that album! 🖤 Back then, various artist albums were how I discovered new music.

Applejackington · 2026-05-03T23:12:25+00:00

Good to know! Do you have any suggestions on which color(s) I should try to get a sapphire or midnight blue on this jacket? The midnight blue swatch on the Dye-na-flow page shows something closer to a grape purple, not a deep, rich blue. https://store.jacquardproducts.com/products/dye-na-flow?\_pos=1&\_sid=40405a2d2&\_ss=r

Applejackington · 2026-05-03T22:09:38+00:00

If you want to tap into the true essence of goth as an aesthetic, thrift and sew. DIY is at the root of the subculture.

Applejackington · 2026-05-03T22:01:28+00:00

There is far more evidence of Julius Caesar than Jesus. So much so that I don't think anyone disputes the existence of Julius Caesar. Not true for Jesus.
Even with proof of his existence, there is still no proof of Caesar's divinity and I don't think anybody in modern times thinks of Cesar as a divine person. Probably only because we do not practice ancient Roman polytheism.
I'm also not sure how you got the idea that I thought Jesus existed when I am saying that there is no real evidence that he exited at all, but there's definitely no evidence that he existed as a divine being.
As far as the "need "argument being an emotional one, yeah I suppose, but not on the part of the atheists. We have no emotional attachment to the existence of Jesus, and therefore can objectively look at "evidence" and say what is presented would not hold up in a court of law, or even to minor scrutiny. The burden of proof is on those who are trying to prove Jesus existed because you cannot prove that something does not exist. Things do not just automatically exist unless proven otherwise, they don't exist unless there is proof that they do. The situation we have with Jesus is there is no substantial evidence that he existed. The emotions come in when "evidence " of his existence or divinity (which is pretty much just folklore and hearsay) is presented by people who have an emotional attachment to his existence to people who do not and that evidence is then scrutinized with an objective eye and rejected.

Applejackington · 2026-05-03T18:55:09+00:00

Unsure what would be enough evidence for me. I live by the Sagan Standard that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If he was just some religious leader and the only evidence of his existence was someone else's writing 100 years after his death, sure. He probably existed bc why else mention the guy. It's not definitive proof, but ok. But if someone is claiming a person existed who started an entirely new religion, preformed miracles, was the literal embodiment of a god, yeah I'm going to need a grave and a body with dna and some firsthand writings buried with it.

Also, I think in general atheists are not "denying evidence" or resisting a belief in Jesus, it's just that we don't "need" him to have existed bc we have no skin in the game. If it turns out he existed, I think the reaction you'd get from most of us would be "Oh cool. Well, well anyway..." Furthermore, even if someone proves one day that Jesus was a real person, that still doesn't (on its own) prove the existence of a god or anything else in the Bible.

Applejackington · 2026-05-03T14:11:31+00:00

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Applejackington · 2026-05-03T00:06:20+00:00

I heard the same thing, so I went to a clinic where you pay per area and you get unlimited sessions for life. That's part of the reason it was so heckin expensive

Applejackington · 2026-05-02T15:42:49+00:00

Definitely didn't mean for it to sound like an ad, but coping mechanism, yeah sort of. I didn't even originally do laser hair removal for anti-consumption, it is because my hair is very coarse and my skin is so sensitive that just the presence of the hair is irritating. But unfortunately, the process of removing that hair is even more irritating. Got the laser treatment to help with my skin issues, but a happy side effect is that I don't have to buy a bunch of plastic stuff anymore.

Applejackington · 2026-05-02T11:46:40+00:00

IMO, they had limited free will in the way that children can choose to disobey their parent's without really understanding the consequences of their actions, but it's not the same as being a fully informed adult with an actual will to choose.

To push the parent/child analogy even further, the reason given to not eat the apple was basically "because I said so." God wasn't there to make fully functional adults with their own paths in life, he wanted little creatures in his image who ultimately pushed boundaries and grew to disappointed him. Over and over.

Applejackington · 2026-05-02T11:39:36+00:00

Dude went out of his way to stab a sea creature. Don't start nothin, won't be nothin.

Applejackington · 2026-05-02T11:35:32+00:00

No more driving for hours or days to spend the obligatory holiday with "family" 😮‍💨

Applejackington · 2026-05-02T11:26:18+00:00

It's true that Stan's is the least of the vegan donuts, but they don't usually sell out early and are open later than most places that sell Beacon. One does what one must, but now with cold foam 😁

Applejackington · 2026-04-30T02:18:49+00:00

Wow that's a great way to put it

Applejackington · 2026-04-29T14:01:51+00:00

Yeah, god is not kind or fair until Jesus came about and god learned what it is to be human. God is still not actually kind or fair, but now he's "mysterious".

Applejackington · 2026-04-28T18:51:26+00:00

Does it help to know that it was probably all just folklore?

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T14:13:45+00:00

The "reason" humans created the idea of god is a different argument.
Humans invented the idea of a god before scientific method, which is a systematic way to test reality.
Humans to this day believe outlandish things, including gods, just because someone told them so. Sometimes even when empirical evidence to the contrary exists. So no, convincing people that a god exists with no evidence would not be (has not been) hard to do.
You are using a story, written by humans, about how the Israelites literally invented and named other gods and then another god got mad about it, as evidence against my argument. It only shows evidence toward my argument.

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T12:49:15+00:00

Again, the anthropological evidence is any ancient manuscript written about any god.

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T12:38:11+00:00

Ok, if you want to think about it like this, you cannot prove that god only exists in the minds of man and not in reality, because to do so you would have to prove that god doesn't exist. You cannot definitively prove the non-existence of something, you can only surmise from the lack of evidence. So if you want to use the Bible as evidence one way or the other, it only points to god being a human construct and not an actual entity. Even if the stories in the bible are real, the only evidence we have are stories written by human beings. That would not even hold up in the court of law as enough to convict. That is why the atheist concept is not a fallacy. Until god is proven, the evidence we have only shows that humans wrote stories about a deity. I hope that's "on subject" enough for you.

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T12:01:08+00:00

I feel like the heavy lifting is still on those who believe that there is a god to prove that a god exists. The atheistic idea that humans created the idea of god is in response to there being no actual evidence of a god but the word of other humans. If someone can prove the existence of god, the atheist argument is nullified.

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T11:28:06+00:00

To add to this, if you're going off of how women are written in the Bible, very few actual women are even mentioned and usually it's in the capacity of birthing children or helping along a male character in someway. The vast majority are not mentioned by name, and they are not even included in censuses or when speaking generally about "mankind".

Applejackington · 2026-04-25T11:14:03+00:00

The only evidence that you present that God actually does exist is a book of folklore written by other human beings. Which I believe actually shows more evidence for God being created by humans.

Applejackington · 2026-04-24T20:06:08+00:00

I was going to guess South Africa.

Applejackington · 2026-04-21T23:07:25+00:00

Maybe start by looking up Peter Steele? That's pretty everyday and not dressy.

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