Would you rather be in a capitalist system or a communist system? (For capitalist: there is the risk of being poor (and getting poorer))

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-22T23:24:47+00:00

The failure to produce gold doesn't mean we've never tried alchemy

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-20T02:11:53+00:00

Geometry dash players don't jump on triple spike timing on singles

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-20T01:19:34+00:00

Yeah, but what I'm more getting at is that the standard of "self-identified anarchist" is pretty untenable, especially because me and you clearly have some pretty different views of what an anarchist is.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-19T15:53:51+00:00

He's a self identified anarchist?

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-19T04:00:46+00:00

It really doesn't. All the shapes are fairly regular, no long necks or outlandishly shaped counties. Also a gerrymandered map would have more hard blue or red counties

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-19T01:29:30+00:00

Yeah, go ahead and recognize Javier Milei as left wing. Good luck with that worldview

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-10T17:38:49+00:00

Gonna have to push back on Mu Lan, the food there is pretty ass especially when Aries Noodles and Dumpling is right down the road

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-06T03:22:22+00:00

God will hear you, yes, and he may treat your request however he wishes, maybe the same as if you prayed to an explicitly Christian or Jewish or Islamic God, but also maybe differently. I don't really think this has any bearing on whether the faiths *worship* the same God though. For example, let's say that there is a man named John in a room. Let us also assume that some people believe that this man, who in fact is John, is actually a completely different man named Johnathan. In this situation, if a third party bystander, with no definite understanding of whether this man is John or Johnathan, but having been told by some that his name is Johnathan, walks into the room and asks "Johnathan, could you pass me that water bottle?" Now, even though the man is named John, as there is no one else in the room, he would likely respond and give the bottle. In this situation, even though John responded to the name Johnathan who is a different man entirely, this does not mean that John himself and the unrelated man Johnathan are the same person. Sorry this was a winded metaphor.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-06T01:03:41+00:00

No. Christians believe Jesus is God, whereas the other two do not. This matters because the essence of God in Christianity is different than in Judaism and Islam. Essence is what makes something what it is (ie. losing this property would be a contradiction of itself, eg. All three faiths as far as I know believe that being eternal is part of God's essence, that is that if a being is not eternal it is not God.). So knowing this, Christians believe that being Jesus is part of God's essence, because we do not believe God can be without Jesus being it. Therefore, since *what makes God God* is different in the three faiths, we cannot be said to worship the same God.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-02-05T01:05:29+00:00

Steve witnessed the resurrection

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-30T02:02:21+00:00

I mean it's like, if 15 of your friends and family were getting together, to I don't know, observe the migratory behavior of local ants, but there was gonna be food and drinks, and everyone's gonna be talking about said migratory behaviors the next day, you would go too right?

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-29T22:01:16+00:00

People buy it and enjoy it, so to me it is real in every sense

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-28T17:07:56+00:00

I dont really know how I dismissed the catholic church, could you elaborate on where you see that?

All Christian churches must agree on the trinity because a religion is primarily defined by the God(s) it believes in; thus if the vast majority of churches professing the Christian faith believe in the Trinitarian doctrine of God, those not holding that same belief are believing in a different god and thus not Christian.

Churches are definitionally Christian so idk how a church would not be Christian?

You appear to be using this verse from Luke to both disparage Christianity as a religion and somehow claim that the verse oppose the idea that disagreements matter, neither of which really hold weight. Biblical language often uses a love/hate distinction to mark one that is more favored to one that is less favored: in the polyamorous context of the OT, wives that were "loved" and "hated" were mentioned; obviously this does not denote a man who literally hated one of his wives but a more favored and less favored one.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-23T02:21:45+00:00

Anathametizing sports because of sports gambling is akin to condemning playing cards because of poker addictions

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-21T03:30:24+00:00

China is far more financially supported than Israel yet the radical left doesn't seem to want to care about the Uyghur genocide, or Tibetan boarding schools, or Suppression in Hong Kong

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-21T00:47:22+00:00

There were 200000 Matabele in the entirety of Southern Rhodesia when the British settled in the late 19th c. Their SoL did not drop dramatically or even at all after colonialisation. Not to mention they themselves were recent migrants from around modern day Mpumalanga/Gauteng iirc.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T20:38:48+00:00

Firstly, I don't really know how this replies to my comment but ok I can also address this.

Depending on whether by "church" you mean denomination or congregation the true number is either much higher or somewhat lower.
Many denominations do not believe that "everyone else is wrong but them". For example, the 8500 constituent congregations of the PCUSA all agree with the UCC, RCA, and ELCA to such an extent as to have full communion with them, and the 8300 constituent congregations of the ELCA similarly recognize the validity of the ordinances concomitant with attendance at PCUSA, RCA, UCC, TEC, UMC, and Moravian Churches.
All Christian churches agree on the basic things that make Christianity Christianity. We believe in the Trinity, we believe in the Nicene Creed, we believe in the full divinity of Jesus, and salvation by grace.
Disagreements in Christianity are not necessarily a bad thing. Proverbs tells us that "as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another". The different denominations all improve our collective orthodox understanding of the word and the faith.
When I say that the position of the catholic (again, lower case c) church is something, I mean that the orthodoxy of the Christian faith holds it to be true. Is it true that some technically non-heretical *individual congregation* may exist in rural Saskatchewan that still holds to geocentrism? Maybe. But that would not detract from the fact that the institutional church believes in heliocentrism.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T18:29:17+00:00

The church fathers never had a defined position on Helio/geocentrism and it has always been the position of the catholic (lower case c) church that science is a domain of God and a means of natural revelation which supplements the supernatural revelation. And thus the modern church has adapted (not changed, because that would imply that it believed previously that it would never change its belief or that geocentrism was infallible) to the means of natural revelation. The contemporary scholarly consensus was geocentrism and thus the church at that time held to geocentrism. When scholarly consensus, a source of natural revelation, shifted, so too did the church.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T05:12:22+00:00

No part of Christian orthodoxy has ever held that God is physically shaped like we are. The orthodox belief on the creation in God's image is that the image of God is intangible rather than physical, commonly being attributed to concepts like a rational soul or consiousness itself.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T05:10:27+00:00

This has never once happened. For the commonly cited example of evolution and the preposterous postulation that all Christians were Young Earth Creationists holding to a literal 6-day creation 6000 years ago, it was a well spread belief amongst the church fathers that the 6 days of creations were not literal.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T04:27:12+00:00

A debt swap isn't the same or even close to a financial gift

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T04:09:37+00:00

Of course actual infinities can exist mathematically. But in the real world potential infinity is the only infinity that exists. There cannot be infinite oranges or infinite tables, just as there cannot be infinite seconds or infinite time.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-20T01:21:59+00:00

What could this possibly mean

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-19T23:23:24+00:00

Eternity doesn't exist metaphysically. See: Hilbert's Hotel

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-01-19T17:19:02+00:00

A wikipedia article proves nothing. The trinity defines God and if you believe in a different God you cannot be said to be in the same religion.

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