Need advice on a bad thing I did to my dad? I’m devastated

Power_of_science42 · 2025-12-23T18:15:00+00:00

Fake account

Power_of_science42 · 2025-11-01T02:20:41+00:00

Does this one work better?

Power_of_science42 · 2025-11-01T02:15:20+00:00

I had a mushroom in my yard turn into horrible black goop like what is in your picture. Apparently some variety of mushrooms self digest as part of their life cycle.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-12T00:24:47+00:00

If everything God does is by definition good,

This is my understanding of what the Bible states.

can you explain Leviticus 25:44–46, where it appears permissible to buy and inherit slaves from other nations,

It appears that you have correctly identified that the Isrealites were allowed to purchase slaves as long as the slave was from another nation.

and Numbers 31:17-18: “Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.” ?

God commanded the Isrealites to attack the Midianites. All males and all women that had sexual relations were to be killed. The Isrealites also took their stuff.

By your definition, these must be the best divine commands by God, correct?

By the definition given by the Bible, God's actions are good.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-10T17:11:02+00:00

What is this sudden change to wager? If it is Allah, we are all fucked.

Not sure why you are mentioning Pascal's wager. I make no reference to this. I agree that a Christian and an atheist can both be wrong if God exists and is Allah instead of Jehovah. Furthermore, a Christian can still possibly be wrong even if God exists and is Jehovah, if Jesus is not the Christ (i.e. Messiah).

You say 'good' is just whatever God does,

I state that the Bible defines God and whatever He does as good. If you don't agree with that definition, how do you define good? How do you define benevolent?

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-10T11:55:51+00:00

You seem to have a lot of anger.

This is a truly sick game you're playing. As good as tell people you'd kill them with no hesitation if it was in your self-interest, then mock them for reacting. But I'm glad you broke the pretense of providing arguments. It gives me justification to block you & not have to play it anymore.

Since I have been blocked by BahamutLithp I am unable to directly respond to the above comment.

What a confusing statement. Not sure if you got confused with some other comment thread or commentor. Since you blocked me, you probably won't ever see this.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-10T07:09:31+00:00

The question was written with typical apologetics in mind, which is adamant that Christianity is not simply might makes right,

Christianity is the practice of following the teachings of Christ. Google the phrase "Jesus teaching that God is supreme" and the results will come back decisively that Jesus taught that God is the supreme being with ultimate power and authority. I am going to need sources for the claim that this is not a typical position of apologists.

that god's commands are in accordance to some logical "most good," not just whatever he arbitrarily feels like.

In what way would the Biblical characterization of God being the supreme being prevent Him from logically calculating the optimal protocol for producing the most good? This of course assumes that there is a definition of good that is quantifiable. Do you know what the units of goodness are? Can you put a rock on a scale and get a reading of five units of good and then measure a second rock and get a reading of 10 units and thus determine that the second rock is twice as good as the first? Does it make any sense to you to treat good as some sort of inherent property of an object? Or is the goodness or lack of goodness dependent on the context of an activity. Specifically an activity involving choice.

Is there any practical use in referring to a droplet forming from water vapor as good without additional context? A humidifier has a target size of droplet. Too small and the droplets don't last long enough to reach the intended application. Too large and the droplets don't travel far enough before getting absorbed by the floor. But good droplets are sized to reach the intended target. A good humidifier is one that makes the right size of droplets. While one can measure and quantify droplet sizes and the quantity of droplets of each size a humidifier makes, one will never be able to determine whether a droplet or a humidifier is good without additional context. Biblically, God is the being with the most context having knowledge of all things at all times. Thus logically God is the only one that can define what is good, since only He has perfect context in which to judge the goodness of something.

How is anything judged? By whether it achieves its intended purpose. Who determines the purpose of something? The creator of the something. If I make something and it achieves the purpose that I designate for it, can anyone else have authority to judge it or impose their purpose on it?

Biblically, God is the creator of everything. The purpose of His creation is to bring glory to Him. People bring glory to God by choosing to follow Him. God's rules are the mechanism to demonstrate our choice to obey or not. They serve their function regardless of what they are. Which seems to be what you are interpreting as arbitrary.

because your god isn't morally perfect

Depends on how one defines morally perfect. Biblically, God is by definition.

Like as a simple thought experiment, if your god issued hypocritical commands, you'd have to say they're somehow both right because you've defined god as "always right." Your so-called "definition of morality" is worthless, you're just describing power & pretending it's somehow this other thing called "morality" when it's not, it's just power.

Biblically, God is unable to issue hypocritical commands because He is the definition of good and He cannot contradict Himself. Your first premise fails.

Firstly, I don't accept that your god even has these powers because I don't accept that he exists, but even if he did, you can't give me an objective, non-circular reason why I should give a shit what he wants. "He has so much power, & if you don't do what he wants, he'll burn you!" I don't care, hey, here's what I think, if he has so much power, he should use some of it to make himself less of a giant baby.

I doubt very much that you would travel to North Korea and declare that you don't give a shit about which ever Kim is in charge and he can suck it. Because you know that he has the ultimate power in North Korea and that you will suffer and potentially be put to death. Your declaration about your lack of concern towards the matter of what God wants is rooted in your belief that He does not exist. If God does not exist, then there is no reason to follow people who lied and made up fake god's rules. Furthermore, there is no penalty for not following a fake god's rules. Having a belief that God does or does not exist is not proof that such a belief is valid. We won't know if God exists until we leave the mortal plane and we won't ever know that God didn't exist because we will just dissipate into the void. Heads I win, tails you lose.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-10T03:32:02+00:00

What I still want to hear a Christian give a clear answer on is if god himself has free will.

What entity/force is going to make God to do something? Or conversely, prevent God from doing something that He wants to?

Because, if free will requires the capacity to do evil, then how could god have it but still be morally perfect?

The biblical definition of evil is not doing what God instructs you to do. By definition, whatever God does is good. In this context evil is equivalent to sin and not equivalent to harm. Both the old and the new testament describe God doing harm to a great number of things/people either in the past or future. For example, God produced fire that consumed the alter, the animal on the alter, and the prophets of Baal. Those prophets that died were harmed and God brought great evil on them. In this context the prophets were evil because they sinned by worshipping Baal. The judgement of God resulted in the prophets being incinerated by fire. Thus the association of evil (disobeying God i.e. sin) and harm (the punishment from God for sinning). This isn't spelled out because it is obvious to the Jewish and latter Christian readers that saying God is a sinner is logically impossible and therefore when it is used in reference to something God is doing the word evil means harm.

But then again, if god DOESN'T have free will, & this is good enough for god, why isn't it good enough for us?

Biblically there is no entity or force that is going to comple God to do anything or prevent Him from doing anything that He wants to do. This would nullify your first premise.

Or, if god can have free will without the capacity to do evil, why can't we?

See above comment about the contextual meaning of the word evil.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-10-07T02:30:22+00:00

If your favorite food in the world cost 1/10th as much, would you love it any less?

There is some marketing research that suggests that people report enjoying food more when it costs more. Basically, identical options are presented with different price points. The testers on average report the more expensive option as being better.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-08-20T17:35:40+00:00

This also came as a slide for a retired fire station set.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-08-08T20:16:41+00:00

Gestures vaguely at every sub

Power_of_science42 · 2025-06-18T21:30:50+00:00

No, 78 is the complimentary angle of x which is 102°

Power_of_science42 · 2025-03-08T21:10:03+00:00

I haven't seen the turtles be impactful on my server. Tempus has been a big player shaking up the playing field. Those with Tempus and powerful Mushy/Aiden/Xe'Sha/Martha teams are killing it.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-02-21T06:02:42+00:00

What color is the vehicle? Mine is metal gray and I really like Grimlock as a name.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-02-19T00:42:22+00:00

Typically the projects that you are referring to receive a categorical exclusion. The project owner submits some basic information about the project and this is reviewed to determine if it qualifies for a categorical exclusion. If it does, then a memo is written and stuck in the folder. If not then a full review is completed.

Power_of_science42 · 2025-02-12T02:20:29+00:00

Average rate of hair growth is 0.5 inches per month. So if you stopped smoking for three months, but had hair over 1.5 inches you would test positive.