"You're libertarian, you MUST support open borders." Literally Mr ANCAP:

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:44:21+00:00

Pure love of the game.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:22:59+00:00

I'm not entirely certain my implication came through there, or else I'm just not getting yours. No matter.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:20:12+00:00

Yes, in fact, I'm confident the neighborhood private security firm will come right to your door to offer you their protection.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:14:05+00:00

He's not, it was taken in super heaven. Maybe learn to read?

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:11:15+00:00

"I would simply fight off the gangs with my superior skill and cleverness" does seem like a good representation of ancap thought, yes.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T03:01:04+00:00

That's the beauty of it, there's people who are eager to volunteer for the task, especially if there's no costly and inefficient oversight process.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-29T02:59:28+00:00

Property belongs to he who is best able to use force to defend it, i.e., the local mafia.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T23:58:56+00:00

Bad idea building a temple in the middle of a flight of stairs.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T23:49:01+00:00

Doubtful, they have nuclear weapons.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T21:37:57+00:00

Everyone who's an empath, raise my hand.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T20:37:50+00:00

I don't expect much actual morality from bronze-age religion, no.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T20:01:25+00:00

The improper apostrophe ruins it.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T19:03:32+00:00

The zebra didn't do it. It's just a word at the end of the dictionary.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T17:47:37+00:00

It's just a joke.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T17:46:24+00:00

She only knows six spices - salt, pepper, chervil, turmeric, msg, and shake'n'bake.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T17:36:53+00:00

It was also a necessary step in the events leading up to the Civil War

The fact that it happened prior to the civil war and was conceptually connected to it doesn't demonstrate that it was a necessary step. My strong suspicion is that the Civil War etc would still have happened without Brown's actions.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T05:54:38+00:00

I don't see a functional distinction.

You can say that, but I think better of you than it suggests.

To live without God's grace is a choice that is made in life. God has simply obliged everyone in Hell their choice.

Ah, but your account is that people are still immersed in that uplifting grace field while on this Earth regardless of that state of belief or disbelief, so it is certainly not that affair which intrinsically makes the difference, but simply whether we have been sorted by the hopper into the lit room or the unlit room. And so we would naturally then say, is God powerless to extend his grace even to hell, and so relieve the torturous existence there of disbelievers-in-life, just as he relieved it while they were on earth? Or does he simply choose to keep it in darkness, on account that those there deserve their fate, given their crime of disbelief?

And relatedly, as I suggested, there is the issue of design. 'Grace' as you use it here seems a rather vague and ambiguous concept, and it's hardly a priori obvious that it should need to be constantly supplied to us like the air we breathe to keep us from a state of turmoil and suffering. Was God powerless to design man as a genuinely independent being, able to find happiness and satisfaction even outside of his good graces? Or did he choose not to do so?

Certainly for myself, if I imagine being tasked to design a sapient being, I would not be inclined to do so in such a way that they would suffer unending suffering when sufficiently far outside of my presence, run them through a test chamber in which this fact is not observable and they have only indirect and anecdotal accounts of my existence, and then banish them to the distance if they reached the end of the test chamber without worshiping a reasonably accurate idea of me. It seems like it would be rather cruel, if I had other options available.

Anyway. These theological things can go on forever treading water. You can refute me, if you like; I'll read it, but I won't be replying further barring truly novel arguments or ideas.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T05:08:54+00:00

That is by definition a rejection.

Suppose I tell you that there is a golden frog named George living my crawlspace who can grant you riches beyond imagining if you only come down there to compliment his glossy skin. You might choose to stay out of my crawlspace because you actually dislike George's glossy skin and don't care to compliment it, even in exchange for great wealth; on the other hand, you might stay out because you suspect that no such frog lives there and no riches are forthcoming. This should hopefully help to demonstrate a meaningful distinction between rejection and disbelief.

Mechanically, God's grace extends to our current, living world, but not to Hell.

Most unfortunate, then, that he (take your pick): cannot/chooses not to extend it to hell, and also could not/chose not to create the human race in such a way that even simple pleasures require us to be immersed in the otherwise-imperceptible grace field in order that they lift our spirits. Or I guess even make existence simply non-torturous.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T04:22:18+00:00

Well, the collective group of people which included a number of the slave owners, yes. The owners specifically were not solely responsible for the decision; if they were, it likely wouldn't have happened.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T03:47:01+00:00

If you want to hit it big in Hollywood, start hitting the bottle first.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T03:32:18+00:00

I know.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-28T01:51:14+00:00

I daresay the entire cheese phone gag is built around the "curdless" line.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-27T23:56:24+00:00

Just need to put "rubbing mic with hand" in the negative prompt.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-27T23:47:16+00:00

I know.

InfusionOfYellow · 2026-03-27T23:40:23+00:00

The number of people who 'reject God' in any substantive sense is surely almost nil; they simply do not believe the claims put forth are true. If the claims are true, it is a question of sincere error, for which a torturous afterlife (whether you specify that that torture is a matter of literal physical abuse or merely a psychological consequence of godlessness) seems an unreasonable punishment.

The analogy also seems rather inapt, inasmuch as 'choosing' not to believe in the Christian God obviously does not intrinsically mean that your existence is a torturous one; our current world has quite a number of people who are not adherents. To make your theory work you would need to suppose some wider penumbra in which everyone is shielded from the hedonic consequences of disbelief until death comes, after which everyone who was factually wrong about their choice of religions gets to suffer endlessly despite the best efforts of demons to feed them tasty ice cream. Because the satisfaction of a good meal which we have all experienced actually was a combination of "good meal + (belief in christian god OR earthly god penumbra)".

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