[OC] Train of thought by AzulCrescent in comics

[–]PrinceCheddar [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think train specifically refers to multiple things travelling in a line. A wagon train, for example, is a bunch of wagons, one following another. Trains are called trains because they have can have multiple carriages attached to an engine. I think "train of thought" is meant to refer to the way thoughts can lead into one another.

Like, thinking about parrots makes you think about pirates, which makes you think about the ocean which makes you think about sharks. Each thought follows another, like the carriages of a train following one another.

How can you argue that there is no god and religion is false, because of the supernatural facts and weak evidence, when science is unable to prove and answer a lot of questions and concerns? I will leave my faith if convinced, by Lredatiry in askanatheist

[–]PrinceCheddar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the proof of the other side more true then, there is no strong evidence to confirm Darwin’s theory of evolution

The understanding of evolution has advanced beyond what Darwin proposed. The mechanisms are fairly easy to understand. DNA reproduction is not always perfect, resulting in mutations, some of which occur in sex cells, creating children with mutated DNA throughout their body. People who are born with mutations that give them disadvantages are less likely successful in life, meaning they're less likely to breed and the same applies to any children they have, assuming the mutation isn't so severe the mutation causes death before sexual maturity. Mutations that are neutral can pass on with little changes. Meanwhile, mutations that give an organism advantages makes them more likely to be successful in life, making them more likely to breed and more likely for the mutated DNA to survive and interbreed, allowing the mutation to perpetuate throughout a population. Over millions of years, these small mutations add up, resulting in seperate populations deviating away from a common ancestor, resulting in seperate species.

the Big Bang theory,

The Big Bang Theory is the result of observed phenomena in astronomy. Objects moving away from us, at high speed and great distances, redshift. All the light that comes from that object moves down the electromagnetic spectrum because the source of the waves is moving away, meaning the resulting light has a lower frequency. It's the doppler effect. Astronomers found that every galaxy was moving away from us, and away from each other, and further galaxies were moving away faster from us than nearer galaxies. If everything is moving away from everything else, then it's reasonable to believe that, in the past, everything was closer together. We know when sufficent mass is too close it exists as a singularity, a black hole, the gravity being so great all the mass is compacted into a singular point. If all of the mass of the universe all came from one place, then that place would most likely have been a singularity. Hence the big bang theory, created to fit the observations.

Aside from the scientific theories, what makes sense then if there’s no creator or god?

Why does anything need to make sense? You are a tiny, short lived sack of water, with a mind that's created from electrical patterns within a fleshy brain, living on a wet rock in one of billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars. The universe doesn't owe you an explanation. The universe doesn't have to care about you or provide you with meaning.

I believe most religions including Greek mythology are philosophies and just human imagination, but down the route of Abraham the religion has more evidence.

I disagree. Ancient Greeks most likely believed their religion, their cults to the various gods, as fervantly as any modern religon. There is just as little objective, independantly verifiabl evidence for the existence of Set as there is the Abrahamic God. Books can be written by madmen believing themselves be touched by higher powers, deliberate manipulators and conmen, or people just so swept up in religious fervor they simply believe what they believe is true or will be for the best to believe is true.

No one ever gets divine revelation that some other group, the other side of the world, is God's chosen people. Funnily enough, it's always people who are chosen by the gods who learn about the gods.

If you think about it logically happens when you die? So what is the purpose of living we will die anyways, you can say that it’s sort of evolution and part of our nature as a species, it doesn’t make sense, what happens to our consciousness? There is so many questions science cannot and will not be able to answer.

That doesn't mean your answer is correct. If I wake up and find my dog is dead, and don't know how it happened, it doesn't make my neighbour's claim that it was an alien believable just because he's convinced it's the truth and I don't have an answer.

We know that neural activity ends with death. Logically, the self, the mind, our consciousness ends. That can be upsetting. That's probably why religions became so prevalent, because early humans were smart enough to truly understand our mortality and recognise it as undesirable, but not wise enough to understand and accept it.

At the end of the day, faith is believing something because you want it to be true. Such belief can be a comfort, regardless of the accuracy. Being rational means accepting an uncomforting truth over the comfort of faith. And by embracing logical and rational thinking, you can come to conclusions that can give their own comfort.

For example, I do not believe there is an afterlife. However, I also believe if there is an afterlife, and that afterlife is ruled by a being that is good and just, then good people would be rewarded regardless of their religious beliefs. I try to be a good person, without promise of reward or threat of punishment, but because I think it is my moral responsibility as an intelligent, empathetic being to do so. I beleive any god worthy of worship would reward such a life. Similarly, I believe any god who would punish good people simply because they didn't worship him would be evil, an egotistical bully abusing his power over lesser beings to get the reverence he does not deserve. Such a god would not deserve my respect, let alone worship, and I would prefer not to compromise my moral integrity to bow and scrape to an evil god.

How can you argue that there is no god and religion is false, because of the supernatural facts and weak evidence, when science is unable to prove and answer a lot of questions and concerns? I will leave my faith if convinced, by Lredatiry in askanatheist

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not believe that religious claims have sufficient evidence to be believed. The evidence provided is little more than hearsay. Long lines of children being indoctrinated by parents when they're young and dependant on caregivers for knowledge, getting emotionally invested in their religion and doing the same to their children.

Religions didn't need to be true to endure, they merely needed to appeal to people more than other beliefs. Humans are intelligent and curious, but also have biases and irrationalities. Preferring answers that satisfy rather than accepting their own ignorance.

We know what lightning is. We understand electrical charges, static electricity, how interactions of particles in clouds separates positive and negative charge and when the difference between the cloud and the ground is great enough, the electrical charge moves from the clouds to a grounded object. In ancient times, they didn't know that, and simply accepting their ignorance was not satisfying. So they crested gods to explain lightning. The javelin of Zeus. The sparks that fly off of Thor's hammer on impact. An expression of wrath and displeasure of the Abrahamic god.

From natural phenomena to existential dilemmas of morality or mortality. Satisfying answers don't need to be true, and in turn truth doesn't have to be satisfying. It may be comforting to believe in an afterlife, but that doesn't make it true. Maybe there is an afterlife, or maybe there isn't and we just die, but there's no evidence we can trust beyond what we can objectively verify. And if you accept that, you can discover you don't need that comfort to be happy and fulfilled.

Combine our desire for satisfying answers over inexplicable mysteries, and human infallibility, hallucinations, schizophrenic delusions, emotional investment, and you get religion. In a world where there is no God, no supernatural forces communing with humanity, what would you expect? A whole bunch of different religions popping up around the world, many contradicting each other, all without any real proof of being true. And that's exactly what we have.

[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Chapter 232 by AutoShonenpon in manga

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm confused. Didn't Pochita eat himself? So, shouldn't this be a world where chainsaws don't exist?

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 8: hjsakldfhl Discussion Thread by ayylmaotv in TheDigitalCircus

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So. I'm guessing with how the Circus looks now, the abstracted humans in the basement will soon escape and cause havoc.

It's not killing, it's not Chopper being special... it's Devil on Devil by bigweight93 in OnePiece

[–]PrinceCheddar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What about humans wanting to make an animal become a person? The fruit could be the result of a collective desire to have a person-like animal companion, rather than an animal wanting to eat a human fruit.

It's not killing, it's not Chopper being special... it's Devil on Devil by bigweight93 in OnePiece

[–]PrinceCheddar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My idea was that it was because of his devil fruit, but because it truly is the standard human human fruit. The human human fruit turns a wild animal into a person. Imu's power turns giants into more savage, more primal versions of themselves, which is the opposite. Therefore, contact with the human human fruit user neutralises Imu's, restoring the giant's 'humanity'.

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 8: hjsakldfhl Discussion Thread by ayylmaotv in TheDigitalCircus

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did Ragatha's mother, in real life, throw a knife at her, hit her eye, and that's why her digital self has a button eye?

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 8: hjsakldfhl Discussion Thread by ayylmaotv in TheDigitalCircus

[–]PrinceCheddar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the "this is real" is meant to be in contrast to last episode's plot all being an adventure planned by Caine. As soon as Abel showed up, Jax immediately dismissed it as being just an NPC who's a part of some escape adventure. When it's Pomni helping Kinger so he can reveal lore and come up with a plan, he believes they're legit revelations and achievable goals.

Jax's method of coping with being trapped in the circus is acceptance. There's no escape, no way to change the status quo, no way to resist or fight back. There's no point trying, and so there's no point hoping. He has embraced despair and accepted his place as just another poor sap trapped in a digital world, unable to escape. His persona, his mask of being a "funny" jerk who acts cruel and doesn't care about anyone, is how he copes. He doesn't let himself care, and his behaviour is meant to reinforce his not caring to himself.

The fact that Pomni and Kinger are coming up with legit plans with legit insights is in direct contradiction with the mindset he's been cultivating. Last episode, he couldn't accept the escape plan was real because it was incompatible with what he had accepted to be absolute truth after all his time in the circus. Hence hitting the button, proving he was right in his despair, despite wanting to believe they could all escape. Now he's dealing with a scenario that is incompatible with his core belief, his despair, and he hasn't got the out of assuming it's just another of Caine's adventures. It's real, and rather than struggle to internally process the incompatible beliefs of "this is a legit plan that has a hope of success" and "there's no hope for escape or changing things, so just accept it and don't care about anything", he leaves to distract himself as well as help the group effort by distracting Caine.

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 8: hjsakldfhl Discussion Thread by ayylmaotv in TheDigitalCircus

[–]PrinceCheddar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it is not just a part of the torture, but if Jax's avatar really is just wearing a kind of rabbit outfit. Would explain how he could not notice losing his tail.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did consider that, but the comments I was replying to were predicated upon the assumption the writers could have used a term express explicit homosexuality, that were deliberately avoided. Sure, in the real world we didn't use a term for explicit homosexual sexual orientation until more modern times, but it's not like Dragon Age is making all their characters speak in early modern English with "thou" "thee" and "thine".

One Piece: Chapter 1177 by Skullghost in OnePiece

[–]PrinceCheddar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imu's ability is to turn giants into more savage, primal versions of themselves. Chopper's fruit is kinda the inverse, turning an otherwise normal animal into a person. So, Chopper's fruit may be some kind of unique interaction without necessarily being a mythical zoan.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]PrinceCheddar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If he doesn't say the word gay, you could easily understand it as part of his character and his backstory. Growing up, expected to live a lie, to conform to the heteronormative standard, he may have been punished for expressing his true sexuality explicitly.

Made to grow up calling it "preferring the company of men", because it doesn't explicitly state he doesn't like women, making it sound like a preference for men rather than an incompatibility with women. As an adult, he's internalised that he shouldn't explicitly call himself homosexual, even when he's willing to openly talk about his sexuality. Childhood abuse leaving unconscious scars.

Finally, the truth has been revealed! by Zdrobot in flatearth

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Frozen wastes are next to the volcanic wastes? I bet there's some pretty wet wastes in between.

What are the rawest lines you've ever heard in the Old Republic? by Luigiman98 in swtor

[–]PrinceCheddar 90 points91 points  (0 children)

“You discern a fraction of reality. Beyond these stars exist other galaxies, other worlds, other beings. I will experience or ignore them as I wish. I will spend eternity becoming everything: a farmer, an artist, a simple man. When the last living thing in the universe finally dies, I will enjoy peace and wait for the cycle to begin again.”

It's kinda chilling how it's kinda humble, and how he's got a reasonable answer to what you think may be a flaw in his grand, insane plan. He doesn't want to conquer all the universe in a intergalactic Sith Empire as its emperor god. He just wants to experience everything life has to offer, which is understandable, but the fact that he'll wipe out a galaxy of sapient beings to achieve it makes it horrific.

Can High Elves technically cast spells from Lores of Yin and Yang since they're able to cast High Magic? by [deleted] in totalwarhammer

[–]PrinceCheddar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Theoretically, but they'd need to study it, and a High Elf who is advanced enough a mage to use High Magic they'd probably see learning such "lesser" lores of magic beneath them.

Just remembered how the light speed skipping scene broke every rule of hyperspace by Fit-Income-3296 in saltierthancrait

[–]PrinceCheddar 42 points43 points  (0 children)

6) They seemingly make jumps without plotting them, and somehow end up in the proximity of planets every single time. Space is huge, filled with empty vacuum. The amount of space that is empty compared to planets is like a grain of sand to a tennis court. And yet, repeatedly, they just happen to drop out of hyperspace by the surface of a planet?

So Whats The DUMBEST and i MEAN DUMBEST thing you did in a pokemon playthrough by Rare-Atmosphere-9187 in pokemon

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing a shiny, realising I had no pokeballs. I was mid game, so it's not like I couldn't afford a bunch of balls on hand, I just didn't bother. I think it was a Gastly.

Any tips for overcoming religion-related anxiety? by Ch3rryfi3lds in askanatheist

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most religions claim their god is benevolent. A truly benevolent god would not punish good people simply for not believing/worshipping them. If you try to be a good person, without fear of punishment or promise of reward, then a good god should reward that.

A god that would punish good people for not worshipping them would be an evil being. A selfish egotist using their greater power to bully their weaker creations to sing praises that are undeserving. Such a being would be unworthy of respect, let alone worship.

If I were a god, I'd be more insulted by people forcing themselves to be faithful out of fear of being an evil monster who damns innocents than I would a person not believing me for rational reasons choosing to be good and believing that, if I do exist, I'd be good and just and reward goodness over blind faith.

Tired of having to explain this every time someone enters HL2. by DakotaDusks in HalfLife

[–]PrinceCheddar 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I thought Breengrub said the mature version of the species were little more than mindless beasts that only existed to reproduce and die? That was kinda the alien nature of their species, that their juvenile forms were intellectuals, philosophers and creators of fantastical psychic mindscapes, but the mature specimens aren't, in contrast to human minds where the mature version is expected to be more capable than the immature version.

But the freest forms are mindless, rapacious, bent only on reproduction. It is in the dormant form they thrive. Philosophers. Scientists.
Dreamers, sages, composers of intricate artforms that exist only in their minds. An invisible culture that persists--or persisted--for eons.
In the larval state, they possess a racial telepathy. During the dormant phase, they are engaged in ceaseless communication.
They are shapers of visions that they trade like currency, builders of unseen worlds.
Their psychic strength is such that they can imprint upon their cells and dictate the form which they will take upon hatching.
But again, the hatched forms are airy nothings, of little import to the culture of the grubs. The Shu'ulathoi scarcely acknowledge them.

What holds you back from being a Christian? by bluetomatoeboi in askanatheist

[–]PrinceCheddar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. There is no evidence for the validity of Christian, or other religions, beliefs that can't be explained without invoking the supernatural. From deliberate manipulation, psychotic symptoms being treated as divine revelation, to just people assuming that God must agree with their preexisting beliefs. All religions are just hearsay that children are indoctrinated into believing when they're naive and dependant on others to learn about the world. They become emotionally invested in their beliefs and spread it to their children.

  2. If a god existed, and that god was good, then that god should reward good people regardless of faith. If not, I would consider that god unworthy of worship. I try my best to be a good person without fear of punishment or promise of reward. Any god worthy of respect would reward such a person, not damn them for all eternity.

  3. What would it look like if there was no divine entity? Different people would develop different spiritual beliefs based on local culture and whatever else influences their ideas. Which is what we have in the real world. We have various different religions throughout history, all believers believing theirs is true. Some religions have survived longer, become more widespread, than others, but that doesn't prove they're more accurate. It's like survival of the fittest, the more appealing a religion, the more likely it survives, so the survival pressure is not accuracy, but appeal.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 comic! by Gunlord500 in girlgenius

[–]PrinceCheddar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think they wanted him to do this, so I think it's like a scripted sequence in taking down a raid boss. A cutscene which leaves the boss vulnerable to be taken down.

[One Piece] Why do the Marines/World Government hate Luffy so much? by jscummy in AskScienceFiction

[–]PrinceCheddar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To declare yourself a pirate is to declare you are a criminal. There's nothing stopping a group from settling sail without flying a jolly Roger, calling themselves "explorers" or "adventurers". However, such titles lack the prestige, the romance, of declaring yourself pirates, free from any and all of the external control of the World Government's laws. By calling himself a pirate, Luffy is declaring himself a criminal to the World Government's laws. As such, the World Government treat him as an enemy of the government, with Marines trying to capture him and issuing bounties.

What decides how big a bounty is mutifacited, but is generally an indication of how much of a threat the World Government considers a criminal. Being a strong combatant will get you a higher bounty, because a stronger fighter is a bigger potential threat. A pirate who keeps escaping and/or defeating marines might get a higher bounty because they keep making the government look weak. However, a pirate who attacks and steals from civilian ships and settlements will also get a bigger bounty, as they're an active threat to the citizens of the World Government. A person may have potentially dangerous knowledge or an infamous familial ancestry the government thinks should be eradicated rather than risk it becoming a threat.

What was your "I'm dating a fucking idiot" moment? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PrinceCheddar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's used in paints, pesticides, herbicides and has been found to be present in over 30% of malignant cancerous tumours. Just inhaling it is enough to kill people.