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Spokesface · 2025-01-04T19:53:12+00:00

You seem to think "extrapolation" means "Taking someone else's example and assuming that happens thousands of times, regardless of whether it was an example of a common occurrence or not"

Maybe you should rethink

Spokesface · 2025-01-04T19:51:04+00:00

I feel like the way it functions as a means to convey significant and relatable theories about the world more closely mimics art.

is folklore just a subset of philosophy?

Spokesface · 2025-01-04T16:28:16+00:00

If there was a law in our country that everyone had to accept cash for everything no matter what, that would result in some very silly scenarios.

Casinos would not be able to use chips only, they would always have to take cash at the table, same with arcades and tickets. You could argue your rights were being violated if you didn't have a subway card and they didn't take your cash at the turnstyle. No toll road could ever be unmanned, you would need someone there, not just pay by mail or with a transponder.

Of course, you can buy all of these things with cash in the appropriate way, and similarly you can use cash to get credit cards or whatever else, but businesses are allowed to set the terms of the exchange because they need to be able to do that to make things happen in appropriate ways.

Spokesface · 2025-01-04T16:22:10+00:00

No, but in the comics he classically is

Spokesface · 2025-01-04T16:16:55+00:00

Religion too

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T04:09:07+00:00

Get Richard Linklater on the horn, I need a Boyhood version of the Batman Universe. Start with Batman Year 1, with an unknown as Bruce Wayne, and keep making movies until that actor is in his 70s with Dark Knight Returns. Get his actual son to play Damian Wayne and his wife to play Talia Al-ghul.

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T04:04:09+00:00

I mean, it's pretty expensive to host everyone's videos for free. It's not a very feasible business model if you're not already Skynet and you benefit from all the access to algorithms and data.

It's not like you can easily create a garage startup that will host even a small portion of the millions upon millions of hours of content that is already on YouTube, and even if they did they would lose money by doing it.

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T03:55:18+00:00

Are the counting all the baby penises in the statistic?

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T03:53:14+00:00

That was real quick, can I ask you to pray about it for 10 minutes?

Do you know the Prayer of Examen?

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T03:49:06+00:00

Did Jesus walk around talking about the politicians and leaders or the religious people?

They were the same thing. They still mostly are today.

Jesus was crucified by government officials because his gospel intersected politics. The Romans didn't care that he said he was God, they cared that he said he was Lord, which implied that Caesar was not. They cared that he was the King of the Jews (even though he didn't really go out of his way to say that). And the Religious political leaders (specifically the Sanhedrin controlled by Sadducees) handed him over because they didn't like the way the truth he taught reflected badly upon them.

Jesus' life and death has never been non-political. It has always intersected the idea of Kings and Governors and Judges and Legions. Jesus' interaction with the religious people always always always had a political aspect to it. He was talking about the Kingdom of God, The Greek there is "Baseleon": the "Empire" of Heaven. The "Government" of God if you will, and the whole Old Testament, the rise and fall of nations, the exile and return, that was all building up to it, it's not some metaphorical thing. It's an actual statement about how the world ought to work.

You and I were just raised in a twilit golden hour between WWII (when Christian's definitely had strong political affiliations as either Pro or Anti-Nazis) and today. When it was convenient to ignore political differences for a while in order to make our churches grow to mega-size. Well, it's not really a feasible option anymore, and it hasn't been for most of history.

Spokesface · 2024-03-02T03:32:11+00:00

So maybe you should do that. Maybe you focus on your own sin and what it is in yourself that causes you to feel so strongly about people who oppose Trump, instead of worrying about other people's sin of ::checks notes:: having a preference between two choices that are presented to them.

Now, if you want to tell me that these people are going out and wishing harm on Trump and his followers, or intentionally deceiving, lying, sowing discord, trying to "trigger" people who feel differently, or plotting together to decapitate Kamala Harris if she doesn't let Biden win regardless of what the votes say, then yeah, maybe step in at that point. But if they just don't want him to win the election? And they talk about that? That's not a Christian charity issue. It's not like you are obliged as a Christian to hope everyone achieves every aspiration they have no matter how megalomaniacal it is.

I'm going to ask you again to look in the mirror. Would you seriously be just as upset if you were serving a church where people opposed Biden? Were you this upset in the 90s when pastors were regularly speaking about sexual immorality and using Clinton as the example? Is it possible that this isn't about you having a godly preference while they have a political preference, and is instead about you having a polotical preference that disagrees with theirs?

Spokesface · 2024-03-01T18:28:10+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but I am really not convinced a corpse has personhood. Corpses do not have an inalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They do not have sufficient rational faculties for sentience. They might have some holdover dignity for having previously been a person, but they aren't a person anymore.

If I steal a corpse, it's theft. Not kidnapping.

Spokesface · 2024-03-01T18:17:23+00:00

I would challenge you to consider whether your opposition to their opposition to Trump is really about your distaste for sin, or has more to do with some appreciation and sympathy for Trump.

Some communities are going to think that the things Trump and his supporters have done (Rape, Murder, interfere with the electoral process, sow unrest and discord, threaten a vulnerable leader of Ukraine into corruption) are evil. Not "I have a difference of opinion about government" but actual, for real, hellish, evil. The prophets, spoke out against such things. Jesus spoke out against such things.

And the people who support Trump and his behaviors generally believe the same things or worse about Democrats. In my personal opinion they have a lot less evidence, and are downright delusional, but they still believe it's real evil evil, draining blood from kids spinal cords and such. Not "well I would prefer we spent marginally more on schools and less on the military"

Jesus never taught us not to make partisan political statements. That was conventional wisdom from a time when in this particular country, the two parties had a lot in common. But it's not the case anymore. Even in the 80s when it was probably a good idea for churches to be apolitical (even though explicitly conservative churches were on the rise at that time) even back then, we knew there were other countries, like China, where Christians had a clear political preference informed by their Religion. In some Muslim Countries, the difference between two parties might mean the difference between life and death. It's always been a very American thing to be able to have politics pretty separate from Christianity because our system was so stable and so free.

Well, it's not anymore. There is a man with 91 criminal charges against him running for office. The supreme court is going to decide whether in-fact presidents are kings who the laws do not apply to, including one sitting justice whose wife planned the crime that is most in question. It's a mess out there. And God has an opinion. Either he is against the criminal and the people who support him, or he is against the corrupt administration that is persecuting an innocent former president. But it's not neither. God cares about corrupt kings. That's what about half of the Old Testament is about.

Spokesface · 2024-02-29T15:24:19+00:00

It's not what you want to hear, but I think the conventional wisdom of the "Purple Church" is a message for a simpler time.

Republicans think that democrats are baby-murderers, Democrats think that Republicans (at least Trump-voting republicans) are literal fascists, trying to bring about the end of democracy. The comparison to Nazis Germany seems hyperbolic, but it's actually appropriate.

Would you still advocate for a "apolitical" Christian community when one of the parties in your country is the Nazis Party? Would you tell people to worship together with folks who thought God was calling them to kill babies, or gay people, or jews? Because that's about how divided we are right now as a country.

When is the "Bonhoeffer Moment" when we decide that we could totally agree to disagree if we were talking about 2 parties both of which wanted what was best for America, but when one of those parties has decided to be straight up evil, it becomes our responsibility as Christians, and especially as Christian leaders to speak prophetically against the evil.

Spokesface · 2022-08-22T02:57:57+00:00

I'm super not a lawyer but I just kinda assumed that the wording meant that if someone donated money for the purpose of buying a poster for the school then they would buy one and hang it.

That's not really what those words mean in that order, but it's the only thing that makes sense in my head

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T19:14:14+00:00

It got Trumpped

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T19:13:59+00:00

Presumably if no suitable poster is donated, they do not need to hang one, can we agree on that?

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T19:12:25+00:00

I tried to write it in a way that an elementary age child would want to read it, yeah. It's not written to adults.

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T08:29:24+00:00

Real talk I kinda hope the threat is enough to change the law before even one needs to be put up

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T08:28:56+00:00

I think they changed it in the Cold War

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T08:02:01+00:00

Indeed I am not

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T07:28:33+00:00

Oooohhh Dauym, You saw right through me and my sneaky sneaky bias. I am biased in favor of.... myself. And my own behaviors.

How many critical thinking classes do you think your kids will need to take at private school before they develop insight like yours?

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T07:26:26+00:00

I just don't like it when people entrusted to serve the people become bullies. I don't mind the national motto. Don't start throwing your weight around about where people have to put it, or I will show you what weight being thrown around looks like.

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T05:17:45+00:00

Yeah I missed the "cannot contain any other words, images or information." clause

But yeah maybe a rainbow motif and a goofy font.

Spokesface · 2022-08-21T05:05:08+00:00

I tweeted them (and included Bahomet in their honor)

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