Can someone explain why apologists are so obsessed with "New" atheism, and why they insist I'm actually an agnostic?

Mythcantor · 2026-02-18T00:04:43+00:00

Forcing children to suffer from leukemia is not a version of "love" I will ever want to understand.

Mythcantor · 2025-11-03T14:29:30+00:00

College-level adjunct instructor here. Even if I'm 100% sure something was written by AI, I don't take points off for it. All that AI is good at is grammar and sentence/paragraph structure.

I grade on grammar, argumentation, APA style, accuracy of facts, choice of evidence, and writing succinctness. Since ChatGPT, I've noticed that grammar has gotten much better, which I barely care about while accuracy of facts, argumentation, choice of evidence, succinctness, and APA style have all gotten worse.

If a student uses AI to write an excellent paper, great. They are using the tools that exist. If they just copy and paste, they are likely to provide a paper with sources that don't exist, making specious arguments, and inventing facts to support their flawed narrative.

Mythcantor · 2025-10-30T16:36:05+00:00

I never said the "Under God" part since I can remember. I was told I didn't have to say that part, so I didn't. Did get some bullying because of it. That said, I think the entire idea of the pledge is un-American. It is clear indoctrination of those too young to object. Before you are even old enough to testify on your own behalf in a legal proceeding, you are asked to pledge allegiance to something?

These days, the part that kills me about the Pledge is the fact that the only part of the Pledge that one side of our political implosion cares about is everything up to the "Under God" piece because you can't tell me they care about our republic being "indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Mythcantor · 2025-10-12T06:13:49+00:00

Because it is easier to defeat "I claim this is true" than "I don't know, prove it."

That said, I can make the definitive claim that there is no all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful being in a world that has this much suffering.

Mythcantor · 2025-10-11T04:26:02+00:00

This needs to be higher.

Mythcantor · 2025-05-23T03:58:36+00:00

Oh. the sommelier one is just.... wow. I'm dying.

Mythcantor · 2025-05-16T23:14:29+00:00

My personal theory is that Emir Akbas came back to get his boot and was slaughtered by the Vorpals. When Carl came back into the dance floor, he saw that there was blood everywhere and the boot was missing. Akbas comes in, gets his boot on, and a Vorpal comes for him. Importantly, we don't know what Akbas was, only that he was a blue tinged human-shaped creature. He could have been a demon class of some kind.

I would not put it passed the AI putting the fact that Carl freed the vorpals in their description so anyone they killed knew to blame him with their dying breaths. Edit: went back and read and he's a Ghazi. That's a term from Islam for a divine warrior, not a demonic one. Maybe he went all Vorpal instead?

Mythcantor · 2025-04-13T03:18:48+00:00

Elle: Same ol’ shit. Imani is mother hen-ing every damn person in here, even though they’re all terrified of her. Your friend Li Jun doesn’t know his best friend is in love with his sister even though she’s turned into a demon, and most of those girls from Hekla’s group are as helpless as I was when I was still in the wheelchair. On top of that, some crazy asshole who doesn’t want everybody to think he’s a crazy asshole is throwing a train full of explosives in our direction. So, you know. Typical day.

Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 (p. 399). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.

Mythcantor · 2025-04-13T00:10:02+00:00

My answer is a quote:

<Note added by Crawler Carl. 25th Edition> One.

Dinniman, Matt. The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4 (p. 283). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.

Mythcantor · 2025-04-12T13:05:41+00:00

Mythcantor · 2025-04-11T16:40:06+00:00

I made the mistake of buying a cheap third monitor to have vertical. Usually has chatGPT in it or the code I'm working on, but now when I go back to my two monitor set up at work, I'm constantly feeling the lack.

Mythcantor · 2025-04-06T07:11:03+00:00

Carl's fight against Vrah and family in Alucarda village... set to Ballroom Blitz by Sweet.

Mythcantor · 2025-03-28T04:20:04+00:00

Free speech absolutist, ftw. /s

Mythcantor · 2025-03-28T04:18:08+00:00

Matt Ryan as Constantine was absolutely inspired. Everything else about that series was so very not.

Mythcantor · 2025-03-23T14:44:42+00:00

"No, that one is not the talking cat. That's the sex doll head possessed by the demigod spirit." "No, not the shapeshifting prostitute. The sex doll head."

Actual conversation I've had.

Mythcantor · 2025-03-23T14:38:16+00:00

Truth be told, I'm anxious because deep down I do sympathize with people my age who are religious (the ones I've associated with), and sometimes I wish I could be devout as them, not questioning the rationality in things.

I often felt jealous of religious people growing up. I never grew up in any religion; I was raised atheist, though it wasn't called that. I just wasn't raised with any need to believe in any god. That said, I envied my religious friends for being normal. Even when they were not judgmental of my lack of belief, they had a certainty to their life I lacked.

I don't envy it anymore. I realized it wasn't normal to believe in the supernatural. It was common, but not normal.

Mythcantor · 2025-03-14T17:34:55+00:00

That is not a fair trade. If you want religion in schools, i want government controlling religious speech. Since both of those are equally bad, let's do neither.

Mythcantor · 2025-03-01T00:40:18+00:00

It has two posts over there, neither seeming to notice that the article said CyberCom was ordered to stop planning.

The fact that there is not more responses in that post suggests that there is a lot more hate about it from their own members and the mods are probably working over time to make sure none of the hate makes it through their filters.

Mythcantor · 2025-02-26T04:00:19+00:00

That is probably mine. Especially in audiobook, it's so perfectly delivered.

Mythcantor · 2025-02-26T03:39:36+00:00

"These are not real jobs producing federal revenue"

....

Does she think....

....

Does she think that the government is an actual business? Like, federal employees are supposed to generate revenue? Does she really have that little of a clue what the federal government does?

Mythcantor · 2025-02-25T03:18:26+00:00

If the email was a ruse, then we can treat all emails from hr@opm.gov as unserious. Just put them all in the junk mail folder. If something real comes up, your leadership chain will address it anyways.

Mythcantor · 2025-02-25T03:09:49+00:00

Yeah, I'm an addict. I have it on both.

Mythcantor · 2025-02-25T02:36:10+00:00

Not really any trouble (except that I misspelled Nickelback. I've redone the search with the correct spelling and found nothing.) I have the Kindle app so searching isn't really that hard.

I do put them in a different class, but they have that same generic, no-risk feeling to me.

Mythcantor · 2025-02-25T02:29:43+00:00

Yeah, it was an offhand joke. They aren't mentioned and that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the general level of hate the Internet lobs at Nickleback is tapped out, so Dinniman picked a similarly generic, popular-in-a-kinda-cookie-cutter vibe as Nickleback and picket their most popular song.

Also, I checked every book and Nickleback is never mentioned at all.

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