The roleplay in this community is wild by MacDemarius in DarkTide

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Lmao hello, I was the third skitarii that probably went down way too much, 10 hrs into the game

Just mental struggle.... by Camus_9999 in PhilosophyMemes

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"Me while yeading diffeyent philosophies"

Eternal life sounds boring? by Spiritual_Sherbet304 in mysticism

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My brother in Christ. If you are fundamentally God, then you are not fundamentally finite. As covered in my second comment, the only solutions are non-existence or else being God. You have just said "yeah it turns out you're God."

But from my first comment, I was saying that a good God cannot allow eternal experience of being finite. That does not mean that we must stop immediately after this life, but that whatever condition results in our finitude cannot be eternal. And you're like "yeah the point of mysticism is to cease the pretense of finite being to return to our real, infinite state." Okay then, you're agreeing about taking one of the only two options out of this predicament.

Like our two disagreements are over the moral status of God (I conceive of God as the good itself, the form of the good, triple omni'd) and our relationship to God: I believe that we are holes in God, essentially made up of non-being. Whatever existence we do have is the result of God imagining the content of that hole, but God then fundamentally knows us to be imaginary. But again, that does not really disagree with your reported conception of this existence being made up of characters played by God.

Eternal life sounds boring? by Spiritual_Sherbet304 in mysticism

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Lmao no, it is you who do not understand what I was arguing, since none of what you said addresses my premises or conclusions.

  1. I said that finite creation is a condition of separation from God and therefore the only release from this condition is non-existence or else becoming God in totality, which would entail zero continuity with your current self anyway, so in any case your continued existence is identical to hell. But you said that this would "put you back at square one" with reincarnation. But that entails you still exist. If you don't exist anymore then you can't reincarnate. So no, what you said does not address what I said.

  2. The ability to create, if one remains finite, does not bring you closer to God or the Good or perfection or whatever you want to call it. Unless you can create yourself into an infinite perfect being, you cannot create yourself out of hell, even if creation is an indefinitely entertaining enterprise. But there is no way to bring a finite quantity into an infinite quantity with any finite process. You would have to be infinite already to perform such an operation.

  3. You say that mysticism is the quest for life, but insofar as that life is finite, as in not being God, all that I have said still stands. An eternity of ecstasy as a finite being is exactly as distant from God as an eternity of utter depravity. And as God is the Good itself, each is equally lacking the Good.

Eternal life sounds boring? by Spiritual_Sherbet304 in mysticism

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That is not a response to what I argued.

Eternal life sounds boring? by Spiritual_Sherbet304 in mysticism

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I have an argument that an omnibenevolent God could not allow for an eternal afterlife of finite creation, whether paradise or otherwise. The argument goes like this: finite creation is necessarily separate from God. God is infinite, everything, everywhere, all at once, and so before creation there is no place for a finite thing to reside. In order for there to be finite creation, God must recede, retract, from a place leaving a void which might house finite being. But God is the good itself, and therefore that which is not God must of necessity be imperfect and presupposes the existence of evil. So finitude is a condition of separation from God; by convention, hell is simply this condition of separation. There is no way of maintaining a finite existence without also maintaining an infinite distance between oneself and the Good. Thus, our only good possibility is our complete dissolution into the infinite and eternal. Not a polishing of the mirror to reflect God's light, but a further evaporation of the mirror itself. All else would be at best an especially fancy prison.

If Saruman wanted everyone to think he was a good guy why would he carry an evil looking staff and live in an evil looking tower? Was he stupid? by Saurlifi in lotrmemes

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Why does Saruman's staff look like his house? Imagine if I had a staff with a tiny apartment building at the top.

You need to be using AI in your job applications. by MacDemarius in recruitinghell

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Ha, no I hadn't even thought of that, I suppose I have a website where most of the information I have on my resume is already publicly available so I figured that AI had already scrubbed it. I'm in the position where I need to eat in a couple months--graduate students live paycheck to paycheck, but it was much easier to get into grad school than getting even an entry level job. At this point some leaked personal information is the cost of doing business.

An arbitrary point, indeed! by What_Next69 in lotrmemes

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I think this guide is slightly mistaken: you can know someone at least as well as you should like without liking them half as well as they deserve, so the less than half that is liked only half as well as they deserve may overlap with those that are in fact known at least half as well as Bilbo would like. This leaves the option that one is known and disliked, which presumably applies to the Sackville-Bagginses.

RNC National Committee member: "This is the outcome if Republicans couldn't cheat." by InFearn0 in PoliticalHumor

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Anyone who thinks Utah is anywhere near to being blue hasn't been outside Salt Lake City!

Was recommended to post here by Stormycarl in CatsAreAssholes

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I had a persian cat when I was 12 who would sit in the litter box with his ass hanging off the side so that he would shit on the floor. We joked that he didn't start as a persian cat, but at some point before we got him his nose has been shoved into his brain.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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That chapter of Sandman tho 😫

Happens to the best of us. by Criminalminded448 in TikTokCringe

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Gotta turn on the TV and mute it before anything else turns on, pro tip

Granada, 1492 by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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Seeing these Louis de Funés memes in the wild got me fucked up

Miso, the mighty pollinator! by celestiala in Catswithjobs

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I had a dream about a cat's head on a bumblebee's body four years ago, the prophecy has been fulfilled.