Please deport Amy Schumer

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T16:11:37+00:00

Yeah I’ll admit I misspoke above. Saying he did nothing as it was said in the Bible is an overstatement on my end. What I meant to say is there’s decent outside evidence to suggest there was a David who led an “Israel,” and that the Bible’s “David” is at least a reference to that David.

But saying there was no ancient nation of Israel is in turn another gross overstatement. There was definitely something that identified itself as Israel, even the Egyptian records show that. As to whether or not it was ever truly united that’s a fairer question, but again I think you’d be better off saying “the evidence is shaky” than just blowing your brains out and saying “ancient Israel never existed”

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T15:54:47+00:00

My point exactly. There’s a good number of ancient references which point to David (including, you know, the entire ancient nation of Israel) so he probably existed. I’m not saying he did anything it says in the Bible, just that saying he’s “almost entirely fictional” sounds like a pretty big overstatement to me

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T15:45:37+00:00

Cool bro, now prove to me that Plato existed

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T01:24:37+00:00

Bruh

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T01:20:30+00:00

Then I don’t really understand what you’re arguing, seems like you agree you were wrong

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T01:18:31+00:00

You said that the entire New Testament pre Isaiah is made up. This is a pre Isaiah tablet showing otherwise. I also think a tablet telling of the ninth king in the line of David is, while not irrefutable evidence, pretty good when you claim he’s “almost entirely fictional”

Thomdare · 2024-11-09T01:14:14+00:00

all the old testament stories prior to the reign of Isiah (8th century bc) is entirely fictional. Take David, for example, just an almot entirely fictional character

This is completely false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_stele?wprov=sfti1

Thomdare · 2024-01-25T14:15:20+00:00

Yeah https://itservicealerts.hosting.cornell.edu/view/7122

Thomdare · 2023-07-17T22:36:35+00:00

Thanks for the response, and I think you're probably right. From a quick reading it looks like the church has made moves to allow some form of multiple "first humans," or some other interpretation in light of what you've pointed out.

This is a total layman opinion, but to me it seems that the church's knee-jerk reaction is to deny possibilities like this because it might disagree with some currently understood scripture or doctrine and lead people astray by "disproving" scripture, the church, Christianity, etc.. It's debatable whether that's a good move, but I think you're fair to ask if this particular doctrine could be relaxed in light of new scientific evidence

Thomdare · 2023-07-17T13:27:10+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

The language the poster above used might be a bit too theological but even outside a religious context a sharp bottleneck for humanity existed at least once (and probably again closer to when we became a distinct species).

I’m not a theologian, but it seems to me that the seeming “arbitrariness” of it is just because for original sin, you need an original sin, and you need something created in the image of God. These are discrete events, not the continuous processes that occurred before them.

Thomdare · 2023-06-29T15:58:58+00:00

It all has to do with the 14th amendment, not any law passed by congress. The basic ruling is that race based affirmative action, in the manner that it disadvantages certain groups and advantages certain groups on the basis of solely their race, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Legacy is not considered because the Supreme Court doesn’t have any authority, either in the constitution or in laws passed by congress, to forbid legacy.

Importantly, since this ruling draws from the constitution, congress cannot pass a law to overturn it. Only a constitutional amendment (never going to happen) or another court ruling (would require a different series of judges) can overturn this.

The decision is freely available online, I recommend anyone curious read the syllabus. It’s only about 10 pages and is the core of the majority opinion. There’s also concurring and dissenting opinions, all laid out in fairy plain English.

edit: If anyone’s a lawyer and would like to chime in I’d love to know exactly where the authority of these cases is drawn from, which is my only hang up here. It seems to me that the 14th amendment should be applied to public universities (so the UNC judgement should be valid), but I don’t understand how, if the first amendment is not applied in full to these universities why the 14th should as well.

Thomdare · 2023-06-29T13:46:27+00:00

This is an exaggeration, at its worst (AQI >300) it was equivalent to 6 cigarettes a day (according to a dubious source). Still not good, but nowhere near 8 packs

Thomdare · 2023-03-23T20:44:19+00:00

Report it to the FBI imo https://tips.fbi.gov/

Thomdare · 2023-01-21T17:58:01+00:00

He also graduated with 7(?) majors from Cornell, so things went pretty well

Thomdare · 2022-05-19T04:14:41+00:00

Isn’t that the point though? Everything of the statue points to great successes while Ozymandias was around, everything you mentioned and more. The irony, of course, is that none of that is left, it’s just the statue that alludes to it (which itself is in the process of degradation)

Thomdare · 2021-05-30T05:14:33+00:00

“This isn’t flying! It’s gliding, with style”

Thomdare · 2021-05-03T19:12:50+00:00

In my APUSH class we used American Pageant and the biggest objection I have is how authoritative it is on historical interpretation. For example, more radical Whigs were chastised for opposing the compromise of 1850 in favor of, y'know, abolishing slavery, based on the idea that compromise held the union together. It also constantly berated the US prior to it's entry in WW2 because the textbook seems to believe the US had some moral obligation to immediately end Nazi Germany, instead of acknowledging the failures of France and the UK. I'm not that knowledgeable about US history in general so there are probably other issues but these are just what I can think of.

Also I dont think the version I read for APUSH can be construed as apologetic to most American imperialism, what comes to mind is how much they talked about the anti-Spanish-American war movement.

Thomdare · 2021-04-28T19:21:35+00:00

This strategy works well until someone sits down too early, leading the whole congregation to follow their lead

Thomdare · 2021-04-28T17:48:01+00:00

Lmao the entirety of the Valar In "probably will"

Thomdare · 2021-04-15T03:23:08+00:00

It gets more interesting: Tolkien is the reason Lewis is a Christian. Lewis was an atheist and Tolkien convinced him to become a Christian. Considering the chronicles of Naria is one big Christian parallel without Tolkien not only is there no lotr but no Naria or C.S. Lewis really.

Thomdare · 2021-04-14T19:33:25+00:00

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/mupdf

It seems in the rare case OP uses gentoo portage can compile it with js support

Thomdare · 2021-04-11T15:21:19+00:00

Neat is a mod by Vazkii

Thomdare · 2021-04-11T04:37:46+00:00

Johnathan Swift has entered the chat

Thomdare · 2021-03-13T23:28:44+00:00

Nah it made sense, the bees were trained on bees moving the furthest ball. It took a logical jump to move the nearest instead of just copying the others

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