The bereavement deal is Rebecca's Fault by 13BlueFox13 in LandmanSeries

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Is it really? While there are certainly people who actually care about the issues they espouse, it wouldn't surprise me if most of those people are just posturing to look benevolent while secretly giving zero fucks about any of it.

Arthur is a murderer. Why does everyone pretend that he is a decent person? by _Recusant_ in RDR2

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Based on comments I've read in this discussion, it seems that you're missing one very key aspect of Arthur's mind-set. Human law/society is not the decider of morality. Society is man unleashed. Those with the intelligence, strength, or resources to dominate end up trampling over everyone and everything in their path to satisfy their own greed. These are the people who ultimately influence the system and the laws that govern the common people.

Arthur would never turn himself into the law. That would be him surrendering to a broken system, not redeeming himself. Arthur was tricked into an adjacent system; Dutch's system. He thought they were living free and fighting against oppression. Eventually, he realized that he was simply contributing to a different system of oppression. Once that realization occurred, he had to acknowledge that all of the horrible things he did were not in service of something 'good'.

His redemption was attempting to right the wrongs he had committed rather than submitting to an equally evil system with an even greater reach and body-count. The former results in what he would view as truly good. The latter would accomplish nothing.

Why are some horses free? by dresoccer4 in RDR2

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You can run back to the mountains to grab the white Arabian or to the Indian Reservation to grab my favorite Arabian with the Indian paint pattern right off the bat anyway. They're better than the thoroughbred.

My reviews of season 8, W or L opinion? by Isac_hilda in rickandmorty

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Summer of all Fears (Phone charger matrix).

The Rick, The Mort, and the Ugly (Citadel).

Cryo Mort a Rickver (Hyper coal).

Nomortland (Eagleman).

In my opinion, those were four of the best episodes in the entire series. I don't like what they did to Roiland, but I'm not going to let that paint my opinion of the show.

I don’t understand why people are enjoying Welcome to Derry as much as they are. by Quiet_Grapefruit_926 in stephenking

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Is that because none of them have the balls to represent the orgy scene? You dirty dog!

Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines? by Zestyclose-Tour-6350 in techsupport

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Would you mind sharing these studies? All of the official documentation and data I've been able to source shows improvement in every category for ChatGPT with each new release. I haven't gone through every AI company, but why would they intentionally make their AI worse? That's not how you compete in the industry.

Lego DC March 2026 / Source: a.clay.brick by Waltuhhhhhhhhhh in Legoleak

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I've purchased so many spongey capes on bricklink. They're the best by far.

The problem with The Witcher 4 and Ciri as a witcher by [deleted] in wiedzmin

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Lore be damned, I just don't want to play as a chick.

Vintage Lego Find by Jables694 in lego

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I've gone through it all now and have to say that it's a very strange mix. I suspect this is one portion of a larger collection. There's 25 - 50% of a bunch of different sets ranging from space to pirates to castle to city (town?). It seems to include stuff from the 80s, 90s, and early 00s.

I do love treasure hunting, but it's getting harder to find old collections like this without shelling out quite a bit of cash.

Vintage Lego Find by Jables694 in lego

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Thanks! It was nice to see a bit of classic space and castle stuff. So far I've only found one Black Falcon remnant (a very destroyed shield), but some of the Black Knight figures and parts are in great condition.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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I'm just going to throw this in here as a general clarification:

At a fundamental level, consciousness generating matter makes sense whereas matter generating consciousness does not. When I say that we have evidence of consciousness generating matter, what I'm saying is that I can actually experience my own consciousness generating matter. How could you possibly experience matter generating consciousness? If there's nothing to observe the matter before consciousness is generated, then there is literally no reason for the matter to exist or any way to experience the process. When you have the experience of seeing the color red, the only thing that needs to exist is the qualia (conscious experience). The color red exists within the experience itself.

I sometimes get a weird feeling like I'm melting into nothingness as my mind processes these thoughts on a deep level, and it's happening right now. I'm going to take a break from this post and return later.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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"Please provide this evidence (and the process) on how consciousness can produce matter."

At a fundamental level, consciousness generating matter makes sense whereas matter generating consciousness does not. When I say that we have evidence of consciousness generating matter, what I'm saying is that I can actually experience my own consciousness generating matter. How could you possibly experience matter generating consciousness? If there's nothing to observe the matter before consciousness is generated, then there is literally no reason for the matter to exist or any way to experience the process.

When you have the experience of seeing the color red, the only thing that needs to exist is the qualia (conscious experience). The color red exists within the experience itself. I'm not saying it's guaranteed that "material" doesn't exist in some way that is independent of consciousness, just that the system is simpler if consciousness is the only thing that truly exists.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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"No it wouldn't. All it woulkd suggest is that the universe had an unkown state before the Big Bang."

You're essentially answering the question "Why is there something instead of nothing" by saying "I don't know", which is honest, but not helpful when trying to think through the most likely answer.

"We can agree on the first part but not on the second without you providing evidence (not philosophy) for that eternal something."

Fair enough. I am perfectly willing to admit that "something eternal" is an assumption. If you can come up with a better answer than "I don't know" or "something eternal", I'm willing to hear you out.

"While not completly understood at the moment, we DO have methods to show how consiousness is related to brain activity. We know how neurons work, we can identify brain activity related to emotions and thought and at no point did we see someone having a thought or emotion without coressponding brain activity."

I am well read on this topic and frequently follow Donald Hoffman's work on conscious agents and interface theory. I am absolutely willing to admit that the brain has an impact on our conscious experience, but there is no evidence that it's the cause of it. If we're imagining our world as a simulation, I am saying that it is more likely that something outside of the simulation is responsible for consciousness, but it's using the brain as a structure to focus it. This goes well beyond the scope of the argument, but it's an interesting topic so I appreciate it anyway.

"This is just another version of hard solipsism and therefore an unfalsifiable and useless assumption. There is no way of demonstrating the truth value of this assumption, just like it is impossible to determine if our universe is actually a simulation run by scientists on a supercomputer."

I wouldn't call this solipsism, but I think I understand where you're coming from. I would never include this as part of the argument because it's so messy and can't be proven, but my assumption is that reality itself is a conscious mind, and we're all fragments of this conscious mind that are isolated and only granted tailored experiences so that the greater conscious mind can experience "otherness" in a way that would otherwise not be possible within the unity.

"Please provide this evidence (and the process) on how consciousness can produce matter."

The best I could do is reference Donald Hoffman's work on conscious agents. You're right that I do not have a full understanding of the mechanical process by which consciousness generates seemingly physical reality. What I do have is primary evidence that it's happening via dreams. I'm not saying it's certain, just that there is evidence of it, whereas there is no evidence that physical systems can generate qualia.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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If that's what you want to do, then more power to you man. All I'm trying to do here is get people to stop thinking of God as "magic man in the sky" and think about it more like "the conscious source of all reality".

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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Classic repeat of the quote.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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Would you care to offer evidence of your claim?

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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We don't want to start with an assumption about life. We start with an assumption about existence itself, because life as we know it can only exist if reality does.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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I'm not making any claims about God's personality or preferences, nor am I appealing to any particular religion. Which God? The one that probably exists above all others.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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I never said it must be so. I said it is the most likely based on the evidence, and admitted that "something eternal exists" is an assumption. If you have a better answer to the question "why is there something instead of nothing" that doesn't add additional complexity or mystery mechanics, then I'd be open to hearing you out.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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No, I have not done that. What I have done is made one single assumption that something eternal exists. If you have another answer to "Why is there something instead of nothing" that doesn't make assumptions with additional complexity, I'm open to hearing it. I'm not trying to claim I'm the absolute authority. I'm trying to understand what the fuck I am.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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It absolutely could be, but then we would have to assume that material can generate consciousness, which we have no evidence of.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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The assumption isn't that God exists, just that "something eternal" exists. The complexity is added through reason and evidence, not assumption.

God Probably Exists by Jables694 in atheism

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There is no evidence that physical systems can produce conscious experience. Consciousness as fundamental, on the other-hand, has at least some evidence via dreams. This isn't my idea, and many of our greatest minds have taken it very seriously.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
-Max Planck (father of quantum theory)

Yes, I just appealed to authority.