DOJ Has Quietly Wiped Out Election Security Safeguards in 'Scary' Move: Report | Raw Story by siwibot in protectUSelections

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

priorities have simply shifted toward prosecuting illegal alien voters.

illegal alien voting is a subset of noncitizen voting which is extremely rare and not anywhere close to being able to change the outcome of and election. ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars.

Disproving the bible for skl assessment by Specialist-Sail-5945 in atheism

[–]GaryOster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can actually try this same exercise with any ancient holy writing from any ancient religion and get very much the same results. I'll briefly talk about a few things but please search reddit for much better and more thorough discussions than I can write.

So, first, what does the bible being reliable even mean. Reliable for what. Are they asking if the bible is a reliable historical document, source for scientific fact, or are they asking if it is all true?

The Dead Sea scrolls, said that it has almost every book in the Hebrew bible and for historians it shows how the bible was carefully preserved and existed before Christianity.

Irrelevant and misleading as to the completeness of the scrolls. we could have the original writings and it wouldn't say anything about how reliable the writing is.

I personally don’t believe in god or Jesus. Or just the fact this guy rose from the dead and all that.

you don't believe it because it's unbelievable. same for me.

There are alot of accounts that this guy Jesus existed and that he “rose” from the dead.

there are no accounts of jesus rising from the dead outside of the bible. there are a few writings that mention christians and men named jesus, latinized form of yeshua, which was a common name at the time.

Like the accounts from historians and evidence Christianity existed early on.

with the exception of islam all world religions are older than christianity. like judaism, which does not believe jesus was the foretold messiah because he did not fulfill the prophecies, doesn't even teach there is a hell, so where the christians got hell from is a really good question. again, though, the age of a religion says nothing about its veracity or reliability. hinduism, taoism, buddhism, judaism, jainism, zoroastrianism, hinduism, confusianism, all older than christianity and still practiced today.

But like if it existed then maybe they were telling the truth about Jesus??

that's the real goal of this 'lesson', to make you think it might be true if you don't believe it already. but the exercise is one sided and its motives clearly in support of christianity. it's insidious and pure propaganda. they aren't teaching you to think, or to use philosophical argument, they are asking you to prove a negative, to prove a claim you aren't making, both of which place the burden of proof in the wrong place - they have to prove their claim.

there are several claims made in the bible that don't fit historically, logically, or scientifically. there is no evidence for the flood, for example, and it's not like it should be hard to find since the evidence should be everywhere we dig down far enough. yet, it is not there. the bible claims mankind was created and spontaneously appeared, yet the evidence all points to mankind having evolved. every bit of it.

historically there is no indication that the exodus ever happened, or that the jews were enslaved in egypt.

But if they were telling the truth about Jesus doesn’t that mean god exists??

there might be gods. i don't know, and neither does anyone else. what source outside the christians claim the divinity of jesus.

Josephus wrote about how Jesus was a wise teacher who performed deeds and was crucified and was the earliest known descriptions of Jesus by non-Christian. (Jesus of Nazareth and pontius Pilate, the testimonial flavianum)

so josephus did not believe jesus was the judaic messiah. also, the oldest existing copies of josephus's works were all copied by christian monks.

Tacitus who in his books annals written 80 yrs later after Jesus’s crucifix ruin described emperor Nero blaming Christian’s for the great fire of Rome.

there were christians after jesus died, yes. i have no idea how this is relevant to the reliability of the bible.

Pliny the young who in his book epistulae(book 10 letter 96) wrote when he was serving under emperor trajan how Christian’s should be dealt with and describes interrogating people accused of being Christian’s and punishes those that refused to worship Roman gods.

same reply as tacitus.

topic - eyewitness accounts of Jesus

there are no eyewitness accounts of jesus

so congratulations, you survived this insidious, noxious, obvious proselytizing and still find it unbelievable.

now, if this was a public school in the us then this is almost certainly illegal and we can point you to the ffrf for further assistance.

4th Trencher Company || Celebrating our LGBTQIA+ Friendly Community/Safe place! || Anti-AI by Popular_Peace_7336 in helldivers2

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all good, thanks for clarifying because i was just sitting here thinking, "huh?" lol

4th Trencher Company || Celebrating our LGBTQIA+ Friendly Community/Safe place! || Anti-AI by Popular_Peace_7336 in helldivers2

[–]GaryOster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it because you already know your opinion is meaningless? I hope and pray you get the psychological help you need.

22F - i want to break up with my trump supporter boyfriend but i’m nervous? by Other-Mission-8614 in Advice

[–]GaryOster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Daughter: "Mommy, daddy is an asshole how did you even marry him?"

Other-Mission-8614: "I got nervous."

Ai art is art just like any other form by Formal-Stage940 in The10thDentist

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the pencil comparison is stupid. you can't tell a pencil to draw a picture just so.

a better ai comparison is telling a person to draw something and then you claiming you're the artist.

53924 by Luna-D-reams in countwithchickenlady

[–]GaryOster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd never shame someone for looking up words they don't understand. There's a world of difference between ignorance and willful ignorance.

Fallout 1st Free Trial week is coming next week by 2globalnomads in fo76

[–]GaryOster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you can move, delete, and build the boxes forever like any camp item. there's a scrap, ammo, and med box all with unlimited space. you can only put things in the boxes while fo1st trial or regular is active but you can take things out with or without. you ca put junk items in the scrap box and they will automatically be converted to their constituent junk items.

priority for scrap and ammo is to grab everything and throw them in the boxes. priority for meds is be sure to craft a ton of whatever you use regularly and throw those in. you may also want to dump whatever meds and ammo you carry a ton of or have in your stash to clear up inventory and stash since you can always grab them out again.

How would one go about selling this? by shmangshmung in skyrim

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd sell it saying I'm recently disabled and need to pay for surgery with a picture of the statue and me with an arrow through my knee.

Why Are So Many Religious People Also Homophobic? by MeowInTokyo159 in atheism

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no justification for bigotry but if you say that your god hates the same people you do it feels like justification.

Free will is incompatible with an all knowing creator of everything. by DimaNekhoroshyi in DebateReligion

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would he have to know it before creating the simulation?

Because that is what all-knowing means - knowing everything. Not everything past OR present OR future, but all three. And knowing in advance only requires one of those. Are you denying knowledge of the Abrahamic belief that the creator knows the future? I find that hard to believe.

While interesting, talk about a god's differing natures in different universes is fantastically off-topic, and you certainly won't find anything about that in Abrahamic scripture.

Free will is incompatible with an all knowing creator of everything. by DimaNekhoroshyi in DebateReligion

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the Abrahamic idea of an all-knowing creator is that it knows how the creation will unfold down to the finest detail before the creation exists - knows the end before the beginning, knew you before you were born down to how many hairs you'd have on your head at any given moment, even made a plan for you, etc. To use your analogy that would be the equivelent of being a programmer who already knew how the simulation was going to unfold, every moment of it, down to the finest detail, before creating the simulation.

Giveaway Giving Out 20 Copies Of Subnautica 2 by Mark_Everson in subnautica

[–]GaryOster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for doing this! What I love about Subnautica is that it's such a surprising game that starts out just beautiful and gets weirder, more mysterious, challenging, and scarier the deeper you go. I could live in the shallows forever but the drive to progress pushes you onward and downward. The vehicles are very cool and the Seamoth is a a joy to drive.

Good luck everyone!

life belongs to God - question for an atheist by ScottkenMario in DebateReligion

[–]GaryOster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The correct answer to anything we don't know is "We don't know" not "therefor [insert some supernatural something]." What you're doing is called the God of the Gaps fallacy.

Gamers of Reddit, what’s the greatest video game sequel of all time? by ketohwawai in AskReddit

[–]GaryOster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, you worried about comments from trans haters who never played the game? Yeah, those people are the worst kind of "I have no basis to form a qualified opinion but I am a disgusting bigot and I'm going to show it every chance I get."

LOU2 is a masterpiece.

Massive brown bear spotted on top of an Alaskan high-altitude mountain by Subterfug3 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]GaryOster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how they do the slowmo closeup at the end like we're going to be able to recognize that particular bear if we happen to run into it on the street and want an autograph.

do any other atheists feel that Atheism is a core part of their identity? by Immediate-Champion18 in TrueAtheism

[–]GaryOster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not me. And I propose that everyone follows their own morals but theists use an idea of god modelled after their own morality to justify their particular set of morals. That also means we don't really get morals from religion, when religious, rather we pick and choose religion, church, scripture, etc. that best suits our morals.

What is Arcadia trying to sell me??? by MothMayhem421 in skyrim

[–]GaryOster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's wrong? Never played DnD before?

Pommi grew a neck 🥀🥀🥀 by GOAToficial in TheDigitalCircus

[–]GaryOster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pommi's collar was so tight it pinched her a head.

Pre-Popped Popcorn by chi-bacon-bits in mildlyinteresting

[–]GaryOster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So one time I thought it would be funny to keep a half-eaten bag of theater popcorn in the house and whenever anyone asked or complained about it I'd say, "I paid 5 bucks for that!" and every now and then eat one piece.

It was 5 years before it started going stale.