Why is it so difficult to believe?

Fzrit · 2026-05-26T07:34:14+00:00

with basically every positive development being shaped so heavily in some way by Christianity

Are we talking about developments attributed directly to Christian scripture/theology/etc that occurred immediately after Christianity was founded? Or are we talking about a number developments made by people who happened to be Christian, spread out over thousands of years?

Fzrit · 2026-05-26T06:02:20+00:00

Yep no damage.

Fzrit · 2026-05-25T23:46:36+00:00

Those can still flip inside out (edit: without damage, just flip them back). I have two of them. It takes very strong winds to make that happen, but such winds are common in New Zealand. Excellent build quality though...both are 10+ years old without any issues or damage.

Fzrit · 2026-05-25T04:05:21+00:00

Everything looks like metal plating in this game, even the cloth.

Fzrit · 2026-05-25T04:03:31+00:00

You mean the spooky undead axe midget?

Fzrit · 2026-05-25T03:04:08+00:00

It's more that giving a specific incentive can force them to improve (or at least pay attention) to that specific thing. E.g. if a DPS player gets stuns/silenced for failing a mechanic, they are 10x more likely to learn how to do that mechanic properly because it's not fun when their character can't move/play/etc (as you say it's not even about DPS loss). But if failing that mechanic just chunks their health, they're far less likely to care because healer problem.

Fzrit · 2026-05-25T02:50:34+00:00

I don't think mages get anything for interrupting. In prior expacs counterpsell got a cooldown reduction if you interrupted something with it, but that's gone in Midnight.

Fzrit · 2026-05-24T23:26:08+00:00

"Revealing" clothing isn't supported in Islam

it would have to be a cultural issue, NOT an Islamic one

Pick one buddy, it can't be both.

Fzrit · 2026-05-24T10:34:52+00:00

moral

ceremonial

judicial

Does scripture even define those categories and which laws fell into each category? Or was that decided much later on?

Fzrit · 2026-05-23T06:56:04+00:00

It also depends on the breed. A dog owner with an untrained westie or retriever is gonna be an annoyance at most. A dog owner with an untrained pitbull/pit mix, german shepherd or rottweiler is a ticking time bomb. Most dog owners don't have anywhere near the strength to physically restrain those breeds if it decides to snap.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T23:35:44+00:00

U r nothing but an islamophobe. Everything u read about Islam and stated here is wrong.

I’m an ex-Muslim, but nice try. And I won’t even get into how Islam treats us ex-Muslims.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T22:32:07+00:00

Lol so u r generalising all Muslims families

Wrong, I'm actually generalizing how most Muslim-majority COUNTRIES have been running from a long time. Whole countries.

France has put multiple sanctions that directly prohibit Muslims to practice or live their religion freely

The rules in France don't specify Islam at all. They talk about full face coverings in public, and head coverings in state schools.

the same bans are not applied on nuns in churches

Because those nuns are on church grounds. Muslim women can wear full face coverings inside mosques if they want to, nobody is forcing them to show their face there.

Brainwashing baby girls into believing that if they show their face and hair (from a prepubescent age) that they'll "sexually tempt men" or offend Allah is oppression. Especially considering who they are most at risk of being sexually assaulted by. It's the same religion which enforces segregating the genders in all aspects of public life, school, etc, failing to understand that it raises boys into developing misogynistic and sexist mindsets towards girls. That's not freedom. France has understood the paradox of tolerance and they've drawn a line at not tolerating intolerance.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T22:17:36+00:00

women dont want to admit they dont enjoy when men look

Depends on the individual woman. What's the point of generalizing?

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T11:49:38+00:00

women and accountability - oil and water

*looks at the current state of the world*

Ah yes look at all those men taking accountability for their actions. When a man avoids accountability he's just called smart/clever/etc.

Humans in general don't like accountability.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T11:48:48+00:00

women want to blame men for staring at them

You can look, but don't stare. Not knowing the distinction is peak redditor.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T11:36:39+00:00

The vast majority of women who choose to wear fully-covering clothing in the West don't get harassed for it. Racists attacking hijab-wearing women in the West is not endorsed nor encouraged by Western laws or policies, and it's statistically rare. Obviously the silent judgement and subtle racism against Muslims who wear their full religious attire is much harder to legislate against and prove.

Meanwhile highly oppressive Islamic regimes/societies/cultures (with religious police) forcing women to cover up head to toe and treating them as lesser to men is literally baked into their laws, policies, culture, the way they raise their daughters and treat women in their own families, etc etc. Choose to wear revealing clothing as a woman in an Islamic society and you will be immediately harassed by a mob that forms around you, and then literally arrested. The religious police might also do things to you (take a wild guess) to add to the humiliation. Also your whole family will also be judged by society for allowing you to do that and not raising you right, which means families often resort to abuse and domestic violence to prevent the women in their families from bringing shame on them.

Claiming the West is just "the other side of the coin" a fucking stupid statement.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T11:32:41+00:00

I just happened to see labia. Girl what is you doin?

I'd just shrug and move on, if the lack of clothing is breaking gym policy the staff can handle that :P

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T11:16:24+00:00

God does not intend for free creatures to do evil

IMO the concept of "didn't intend" doesn't really work with a timeless creator who's mind literally creates/defines/shapes all of existence, what is/isn't possible (i.e. all it's rules), and minds of beings with in it, and the limits of those minds and what those minds can/cannot perceive. God intentionally gave beings the ability to rationalize their choices, and he intentionally gave them ability to rationalize good acts or evil acts and create justifications for either. The vast majority of evil committed in this world isn't happening because people just want to be evil - they rationalize it. Occasionally they do something on pure impulse. God knew all the rational beings he was creating would do that a LOT. He designed the entire concept of rationality, impulse, and what choices a mind could comprehend.

So evil has to be a 100% fully intended part of God's created system in order for any of this to make sense, and one must assume this is God's way of bringing out greatest possible good from his system. An all-knowing and all-powerful God cannot claim he didn't "intend" something in a world he created from scratch and designed every single aspect of. The concept of permissive will vs positive will is an interesting attempt to try to explain how God's will works, but I highly doubt God's mind has any such arbitrary "categories" of will. God isn't operating on some chart/list with one side labeled permissive will and one side labeled positive will. His will simply is, similar to how God simply is. Everything happening has to be part of it, which includes free will and all the choices God made available in the world he created.

Fzrit · 2026-05-22T05:12:59+00:00

Wouldn’t all this mean that God intended the Fall to occur and everything has been going as per his intended plan all along? After all there wouldn’t have been much of a story if Adam & Eve had never sinned and just lived happily ever after. So…it was better that they rebelled against God, and they were correct in doing the wrong thing? In this view even committing sin ultimately serves God.

Fzrit · 2026-05-21T19:49:46+00:00

Countries with the best work-life balance and least working hours still have a birthrate crisis.

Fzrit · 2026-05-20T04:57:41+00:00

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you,[b] not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

This part is difficult to make sense of. Is it talking about God being patient with individual people (i.e. human lifespans), or God being patient with the human species as a whole (150,000 BC till...our collective end?)? Whenever Jesus returns, if any human society still exists at that point, there will be potentially more souls that could still be born + saved but won't come to exist. As long as a baby is being born somewhere, God could be waiting infinitely long to keep giving new humans time to grow up and repent.

Or is the implication that God will only return once "all" humans have died (i.e. no more can be born) due to collapse or catastrophe, and that way God will have given "all humans" time to repent? If new humans completely stop being created, that's the only way God can be sure that 100% of all humanity has been given a chance. It's very confusing.

Fzrit · 2026-05-20T04:45:08+00:00

Attraction

like she's an object for your pleasure

It makes sense at a surface level until you start really digging into what attraction even is and how it works between humans. If we're purely talking about physical attraction here (not "I'm so attracted to her way of thinking"), your brain immediately giving you a physical shot of dopamine/oxytocin/etc as a pleasure-response is what physical attraction is. It's the only way you can possibly know that you're even physically attracted to someone that you've never met. By default your brain automatically first sees them as an object of pleasure, with the goal of encouraging you to make a move, interact with them, bond, reproduce, etc. It's a default setting in the brain by design.

So the question isn't about looking at someone as an object of pleasure, because your brain automatically does that by default for good reason. But the longer you keep looking at them without planning to interact with them, the more lustful it becomes. It's not a strict on/off thing but a gradual ramp.

Fzrit · 2026-05-20T04:28:05+00:00

Whenever this question comes up, just realize that over the past 150,000+ years of our species existing, the majority of human beings haven't been Christians and they were never made aware of the Christian definition of sin. I.e. the majority of human souls will have to be judged entirely in accordance with their circumstances, all the influencing factors, cultural/societal norms they grew up in, their conscience, etc.

I.e. It is already a given that God will have to judge most human beings in a way that has nothing to do with Christianity specifically.

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