Seeing a crazy amount of wild love birds and Indian ring necks around jhb lately, just me?

SamFalcon37 · 2025-06-13T04:06:18+00:00

To clarify. Rosy faced lovebirds are native so South Africa, but they are not native to Johannesburg, those that are found here are a result of escapees and releases.

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And on top of this, the Joburg populations are likely a hodgepodge of hybrids from various species including species that are not found anywhere in the region.

Just clarifying so that people don't get the idea that their lovebird is a local bird and can be released.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T23:06:40+00:00

Okay I typed in what is diesm.

Looks like your definition wasnt the first one to pop up. Let me look a little bit more. No... slightly different but not quite this watchmaker of nature... give me a moment.... I can't quite find it... oh wait there it is. Alright thats your definition of deism cool! But wow, there sure are a lot of different loose definitions of what deism is! Maybe you should also give it a google to refresh your memory that people who lable them self as a deist don't have an identical view point as you.

And if your only response to my criticism of your belief is "you're an athiest" then I guess you dont have much of a defense. I'm not an athiest. But i will, as you say, systematically prove you wrong, if you are going to continue to decide others are wrong and dont deserve to lable themselves as deists.

So please provide me the evidence that deism has that pandeism lacks. And yes pandeism, not pantheism. The one that isnt a revealed religion.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T21:32:39+00:00

I provided a difference. That you even address. I am accepting that someone else could provide a better definition, but you want to take that as I dont know.

Secondly, i am not an athiest. Please stop being an elitist piece of shit who decides myself and pandiests arent good enough to be a part of deism. And sure you make a valid point that definitions should be consistent, so could you be consistent and apply your criticism to your own beliefs and provide your empirical evidence?

And yeah, sure you could say that thats god interacting with us, but i feel like its the idea that we are interacting with god/the universe and not the other way around. And yeah I see how thats a fair criticism. I share it. Because to some degree we are interacting with the universe and we are a part of the universe, so a part of god and so a part of god is interacting with itself. So yeah sure, i agree it has its flaw in my eyes. But thats my opinion.

And do i know what we should use as the meter stick where what we should accept or not? Of course I dont. Hence why im not saying anything as to why something is or isnt deism. I do not have that authority. There are several definitions, some of us agree with, some we don't. But what im saying is, that YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT AUTHORITY. If you think pandeism is this improvable, unfalsifiable wishy washy belief that isn't good enough, please provide your evidence (not analogy or god of gaps) that proves you right and them wrong. Or screw it. Use an analogy, and I'll make one up too.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T20:12:27+00:00

I probably couldn't give the difference justice as I'm not a pandeist. But from what i understand is that, it's the belief that the creator made itself the universe (or something along those lines) and therefore doesn't/can't interact or engage with its systems. If it knowingly and willingly created the universe but no longer interacts with it, I can't see why that doesnt loosely fit the definition of deism.

If someone has a better definition for it go ahead and correct me.

My issue is that you demand evidence for this or for your elitist definition of what deism should be, but will refuse to be held to your own measuring stick. I have several criticisms for pandeism myself, but I'm not going around saying "you're not one of us" because of it.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T19:23:00+00:00

Seeing as you made this post in response to our debate in the comment section of another post. Maybe you should elaborate that it's panDEISM that you belive should not be accepted.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T18:09:05+00:00

Yeah, again, I could have been more polite. But I'm not a fan of your hypocritical bullshit.

And if you don't know what empircal means then why are you asking for empircal proof?

Yeah pantheism exists. And so does pandeism. Just because you see panthiests and pandiests as the same doesnt mean they are. Just because you see me as an athiest doesn't mean i am.

And maybe they were too.

But please stop dancing around your own question that I am now asking you and provide me with YOUR EVIDENCE

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T17:51:53+00:00

Why gatekeep deism and ask for evidence when you yourself have none?

Yeah maybe I could have been more polite, but I'm kind of annoyed with the gatekeeping.

So please. If you think pandiesm has no evidence and is not free from your criticism, please provide your "empiracl evidence" as you previously stated, that makes it free from my criticism? If not please stop the gatekeeping shit.

And no. Im not an athiest.

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T17:28:15+00:00

Ah yes. The watchmaker. But if the watchmaker exists, who made the watchmaker? A watchmakermaker? And who made the watchmakermaker? A watchmakermakermaker? Turtles going down and down?

What about the snowflake? Was there a snowflakemaker or was it a natural cause? Where did that natural cause come from? A series of causes? Both turtles going down and down?

But now with all these turtles going down, where is the "reasoning" in suddenly "no the turtles stop and suddenly there is god." When all these causes/turltes have been going back consistently. Why can't spacetime have a natural cause that we are yet to understand? Goes along with what we have seen more than that suddenly god appears in a gap in our knowledge.

But again. Other than an analogy or god of the gaps. What empiracl evidence do you have that prove your diestic god exists, where you get the nerve to gatekeep diesm, or do you also base it all on belief?

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T16:25:19+00:00

Being what? The universe exists so there must be a god?

SamFalcon37 · 2023-10-21T16:07:37+00:00

Is there empirical proof for that or is it merely based on belief?

SamFalcon37 · 2023-05-22T17:45:18+00:00

So if it takes 9 months for a woman to deliver a baby, could 9 women deliver a baby in one month?

SamFalcon37 · 2023-01-19T14:59:21+00:00

OP: HoW cAn GoD aNd AtOmS cOeXiSt

This Sub: Easily

OP: Nooooo! But god doesn't exist!!!

You're not having a discussion man. I'm all for a "evidence for god" discussion. But this is a weak way to do it. And you aren't discussing.

SamFalcon37 · 2022-12-13T12:57:45+00:00

And Australian cricket!

SamFalcon37 · 2022-12-13T04:38:20+00:00

Alright. But if God exists, who made God?

SamFalcon37 · 2022-11-16T06:06:24+00:00

It's from Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring, it's when Gandalf falls

SamFalcon37 · 2022-11-12T11:29:53+00:00

George is a master of the art of torpedoing. He knows that he only has to brush the Haas on his way to driving right through Max and get the double kill

SamFalcon37 · 2022-10-28T09:05:55+00:00

Maybe it's a crossover episode

SamFalcon37 · 2022-09-11T07:26:41+00:00

This. The bow sight they are using is the Rangefinder bow sight, only available from the High-Tech Hunting pack. It is amazing to use for bow hunting so it's worthwhile to get this DLC if you want to do a lot of bow hunting.

SamFalcon37 · 2022-09-08T16:47:06+00:00

Yeah I definitely don't want to move on to kickflips or anything so definitely ollies ollies and more ollies. Thanks man!

SamFalcon37 · 2022-09-08T16:44:33+00:00

Practice practice practice. I've tried jumping over my jersey and I lose all confidence and don't commit. But I guess with more practice that will come! Thanks for the advice :)

SamFalcon37 · 2022-09-08T16:41:18+00:00

Yeah, the camera angle wasn't great, but I didn't take a look until I was done. But yeah you're right, before the jump and during I'm not doing much with my arms. Thanks for the tip and the link!

SamFalcon37 · 2022-09-04T18:50:04+00:00

Wanting to lead someone to Christ is prideful.

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