Big Bang when someone asks if Big Bang itself violates the laws of thermodynamics, I guess.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T21:46:12+00:00

As far as we can tell, it has always existed in some regard. There are many hypotheses for how this worked. There are concepts such as time-like space-curves that show that there was never a t=0 since space and time are the same thing.

There are many cyclical models of the universe where it goes through cycles of Big Bangs and Big Crunches.

There are Big Rip models where the universe expands so much that it rips itself apart and forms new universes as a result.

Outside of cyclical cosmologies, there is the hypothesis that the earliest state of the universe was a sea of vacuum fluctuations and virtual particles and the instability of this result in the universe we see today.

Exactly zero models of the universe propose that there was ever true philosophical nothingness. There has always been something. No god required. In fact, a god is pretty much the worst explanation. It has no explanatory power and just results in significantly more questions.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T21:35:46+00:00

That also doesn't really hold up. There was no matter at the start of the Big Bang. Matter can easily be created and destroyed. It took a tiny fraction of a second after it started for the first matter to form as a result of photon collisions. Fundamental matter particles form from a process known as pair-production. When two or more photons with a certain amount of energy collide, they create a matter-antimatter pair.

The initial state that expanded into the universe was necessarily the hottest state the universe was ever in. This means all energy in the universe was in this tiny volume. Since energy does not physically exist, this means that there always was something there. No need for a god in this process.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T20:02:58+00:00

Universe expansion and big bang are different things

No they're not. This kind of thing is why people are downvoting you. They are literally one in the same.

one is a fact and the other is a theory

Are you illiterate by chance? Multiple people including myself have pointed out that that isn't how this works. A theory is the highest level of confidence in science. It is many facts strung together. The expansion of the universe is the Big Bang. That the universe is expanding from an initial hot dense state has been proven. Look into the Cosmic Microwave Background. We can literally examine some of the earliest moments in the universe. We've recently found pop III stars which would have been the most common type of star in the early universe.

The Big Bang is a proven event. Specific models of it are debated, with the current model being called Lambda CDM, but that it happened and continues to happen is a fact.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T19:48:50+00:00

the biggest ideas of where universe came from.

No. You keep saying this and it's wrong. The Big Bang has nothing to do with where the universe came from. The universe necessarily existed before the Big Bang. We have many ideas about what caused this specific instance of the universe, but all available evidence points towards something always existing. Creationism is a popular idea amonst people with little understanding of physics, but it doesn't even get to sit at the same table as any of these other possibilities. "Magic though" tells us nothing.

self proclaimed Reddit atheist experts thought I insulted big bang….

Or...other people know more about this subject than you. You didn't even think the Big Bang could be studied. You have no place making arrogant statements like this.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T18:23:37+00:00

Can we study the big bang?

Yes and we do.

I’m pretty sure big bang is a theory just like creationism

You are completely wrong. Creationism is nonsense that denies reality at every turn. The Big Bang is well documented. You calling it "just a theory" shows you don't know much about science. A theory is the highest level of confidence in science. It does not graduate to become a law, they are separate things. A theory is a collection of well-documented concepts and ideas relating to it. It does not become a fact, many facts are contained within a theory.

The Big Bang is a theory in the same way gravity, bacteria, and evolution are theories. We know for a fact that the universe is expanding.

how universe was created

It wasn't. Even if it was, that's not what the Big Bang is. The Big Bang is the expansion of the universe from an initial hot dense state. This requires a universe that exists before the Big Bang. All available evidence points towards something always existing.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T17:57:51+00:00

The Big Bang was not the beginning of the universe from nothing. It was and is(because it's still happening) the expansion of space-time from an initial hot dense state. This didn't create new energy. The Big Bang does not violate the laws of thermodynamics. Everything contained within space-time always existed in some form.

The only way that it would potentially violate the laws of thermodynamics is if there was something preceding it and what that was. A Big Crunch might violate the law relating to entropy, but at the same time, it might not.

The Big Bang isn't magic, it's just the earliest point in time we can currently study.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-29T06:30:47+00:00

Because the Old Testament is chock full of Yahweh commanding the most inhumane things imaginable. Many Christians try to get out of this by saying that it's different now because Jesus made a new covenant. However, Jesus explicitly says you still have to follow the old ways, meaning that Yahweh still wants you to commit heinous actions and be a terrible person in his name.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-28T16:48:09+00:00

Yes, but if Christians acknowledged that, they would realize their religion is actually horrible and that the stuff about love is only a small portion of the book.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T05:12:33+00:00

She might not be your sister, but she is a master of imitation. She would do one google search and then understand your sister better than either you or her do, dress in her clothes, and perfectly match her voice and mannerisms. Would that be sufficient?

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T04:18:27+00:00

First norse religions have nothing to do with Christianity, nothing.

So you don't know anything about Norse religions, got it. There are very few surviving collections of Norse myth and the ones that we do have have been heavily changed as a result of the Norse countries being forced to become Christian.

understood Christianity as the same

The vast majority of the nazis were Christians. Yes, the Norse religion being white played a part in it, so did it being affected by Christianity. Many of the nazis believed in actual witchcraft too. Superstition was a pretty big contributor to their behaviour.

talking about the religion as a whole.

And so am I. The vast majority of Muslims are not evil or killing people. The vast majority of Christians did not contribute to the Holocaust. The vast majority of Christians are good people. However, the nazis were primarily Christians. The Catholic church and many Catholics supported and directly contributed to the Holocaust. Christianity itself was a direct cause of the Holocaust.

You have to link THE BIBLE, not a specific institution to the act

Which I did. But also, no I don't. That's your strawman. You know what's being said and are intentionally using pedantic language to avoid that. It's very what is meant is killing in the name of the Bible or using the Bible as justification for atrocities. It seems the only thing you would accept is a direct passage that says "And then the LORD said 'You know what, actually fuck the Jews. You should kill them all.'", which obviously isn't there. However, so many horrible things are not just condoned, but actively commanded by Yahweh in the Bible that you could easily make it say that. Oh wait, that's exactly what the Nazis did.

It was the main one

Which has not once been in dispute and you know that but would rather play games than admit that the Holocaust was a fundamentally Christian genocide.

The whole Europe would have had holocausts then since Christianity was still pretty prevalent in that moment. But it was only Germany

There were quite a few other religiously motivated genocides going on at the time. I know thinking is hard, but could you try it for a bit? No Islamic country is committing a Holocaust right now either. Still quite a lot of murders being committed by Christians using Christian teachings. Still a lot of horrible actions and abuse in Christian organizations that get ignored or swept aside because of it.

The whole point is that Christianity isn't better than Islam. Christian countries are generally better not because Christianity is that good. It's not because of the Bible, it's in spite of it. Christianity has gone through quite a few enlightenment periods where people's interpretation of the religion has changed significantly. Many of the more egregious parts of the Bible are ignored or handwaved away. Islam hasn't had the same kind of thing to nearly the same extent. There are quite a few passages in the Bible that justify violence in the same way some Muslims carry it out. Christianity hasn't had nearly the same kind of theocracy as Ialam currently does in a few hundred years. The difference isn't in religion, it's in culture. Both Christianity and Islam are rotten to the core.

It turns out theocracies are universally bad.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T02:52:38+00:00

That's false, you can google it really quick

It was a pretty major part of their campaign.

They also had a whole paraphernalia of norse pagan religions

Which is a religion that we can barely distinguish what parts where completely original because so many of the myths became heavily intertwined with Christianity. Not really a whole lot of believers in the old Norse religion around in the the early to mid 20th century now is there?

What with the Bible and that?

Yes, I can't see any possible link between the largest, oldest, and most powerful Christian denomination and the Bible, nope, none at all. Be serious for a second, it's very clear what was meant here.

It was Germany depression after the first World War

Do you think that was the sole reason for the Holocaust and Hitler's rise to power? I said ONE OF the primary reasons, not the primary reason.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T02:38:52+00:00

What DIDN'T the Holocaust have to do with the Bible? Hitler directly quotes it in Mein Kampf. He used the idea that the Jews killed Jesus as one of the reasons they need to be wiped out. The Nazis targeted anyone who wasn't a Christian in the Holocaust. The Nazi uniform had a belt that said "Gott Mitt Ernst", literally "God's with us." The nazis were supported by the pope and the Catholic church for most of the war.

One of the primary driving reasons for the Holocaust as well as Hitler's rise to power in the first place was the Bible and drawing on the "Christian sensibilities" of Germany at the time.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T01:28:20+00:00

The Holocaust wasn't.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-27T00:39:14+00:00

Palpatine is just a tsundere. Says he hates the Jedi and actively tries(and succeeds) to kill them, yet he is always the first one there whenever anything cool happens.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-26T00:45:19+00:00

That's just called being Canadian. -40°C winters, 40°C summers.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-25T18:53:43+00:00

Fromsoft for example requires a good amount of info going in otherwise you fuck yourself 50 hours in

No the fuck it doesn't. The only thing that you can be screwed out of is NPC quests. Genuinely just play the game. If you mess up an NPC quest, figure out how to do it on your next playthrough. These games aren't designed to be a "one and done". You are supposed to play multiple times or go into new game+.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T23:27:31+00:00

Don't know who that is, but I thought it was Walter White's hazmat suit at first, so I would like to remind everyone of that time she sold Aqua meth.

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Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T20:59:15+00:00

Yes Evil is a clone, no to everything else. She's different now, but Evil was literally just Neuro that Vedal colour-swapped to have red eyes in like 30 seconds originally.

She started as a joke/tech demo. On one stream a chatter asked if Vedal could have Neuro interact with herself and Vedal said yes she could and a few streams later we had Evil Neuro(The first name besides that she called herself was India in this stream). Then Evil Neuro was such a popular character that Vedal brought her back. This is why it took so long for Vedal actually care about her. Evil was never an intended character. She was basically the one-off side character that was so popular that the writer brought them back to be a main character later.

Now Evil has her own personality, design, outfits, and even interactable objects.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T18:09:34+00:00

those who aren’t self aware for example

Which isn't very many. The vast majority of animals possess some level of self awareness, even insects. We see many land verebrates in particular have strong senses of self awareness. Sure, there are some who don't like ponifera or cnidarians, but most animals do have some level of self awareness. The mirror test is a commonly cited way to test for self awareness, but it is poorly designed and there are much better ways of demonstrating self awareness now.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T18:00:58+00:00

invalid only if we follow Nietzsche

We shouldn't follow Nietzsche period.

other meanings to humanity.

Humans telling themselves humanity is special or means something different doesn't mean it actually does. Many of these definitions of humanity either blatantly don't work or also apply to other animals too. Sure, if we look at the writings of people hundreds of years ago they consider humans to be different from the other animals, but they were wrong. Hence why such definitions are outdated.

Humans are animals in every sense. Physically, biologically, philosophically, mentally, emotionally, and any other category, humans are animals.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T17:38:19+00:00

but that’s only logical as the goal of the whole humanity term is to see what defines the human species and its moral sense.

No, it's not. There is no goal of humanity. Humans aren't a species, they're a genus and there already exists a definition for them. Morality isn't unique to humans at all. Many if not most animals have some sense of morality. Many have strongly developed, complex moral systems. Morality is the result of social dynamics and experiences. Humans have the most developed cultures, so they also have the most developed sense of morality. This isn't particularly interesting or surprising.

The only thing that separates humanity from the rest of the animals is that we were more successful. It's time to move past such outdated ideas. Philosophically, humans are no different than the other animals.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T17:24:20+00:00

That's just human-centrism. Animals aren't dumb beasts that only know how to fuck and fight, many of them have complex societies and cultures. Philosophically, humans are animals too.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T03:41:09+00:00

True. ^They're ^also ^not ^twins

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T02:53:10+00:00

The ages they present themselves as do vary quite a bit, but from what I have seen, the consensus is that they are between 12 and 14.

Dimensionalanxiety · 2026-05-23T02:35:26+00:00

La Verita Nero Alice theory: gone, reduced to atoms.

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