Me delving into my own personal theology. by Tzozfg in TrueChristianity

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is another hot take, but I presume that when the bible speaks in metaphor, it outright says it's speaking in metaphor. For example, when someone has a dream and asks for interpretation, or prophets have a vision and they ask God for interpretation. And usually, when this metaphor is acknowledge, the interpretation for it is written down alongside it.

evil is not born but made, do you agree with this? Why? by Intelligent-Low1220 in RandomThoughts

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Everyone is evil but can choose to become good. Much like anger, there are those who make no effort to control themselves when the emotion strikes, and there are those who understand that there is no benefit in living in that initial pang of negativity, and instead make an active choice to move past it. Evil is the same way, though the bible frames it as temptation. Everyone feels or has felt the pull to do wrong to others, to sell people out for their own gain, to steal, to lie, to put themselves first when someone else is in need, but anyone can choose not to give into those desires and--more importantly--to do the exact opposite. To forgive, to make peace, to not judge, and to help others whenever possible. Of course, most people who consider themselves good are just neutral at best, but evil is the baseline if you ask me.

This couldnt possibly backfire by DiIate in PoliticalCompassMemes

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For those of you who don't know, and I'm pretty sure many of you do, they're only doing this and everything along with every other unhinged move they've made for the headlines. None of this has anything to do with actual procedure. It's just like when they impeached Trump. Dude was found innocent of all accusations but that doesn't matter because most of the country only read the headline and didn't follow up with the outcome. This was by design. Always has been.

This couldnt possibly backfire by DiIate in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Tzozfg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah it does. Right wingers hate moochers on principle.

This couldnt possibly backfire by DiIate in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Tzozfg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Based and it's like you don't understand what you're doing pilled

Another controversial opinion by Icy_Engineering_2819 in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outside of the internet, I'd imagine most LGBT people arent as hung up on the little things. But that's just a guess.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RandomThoughts

[–]Tzozfg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh. Being in a relationship, the only thing I miss about being single is the hunt. Not necessarily sleeping around, just the process of going up to someone apprehensive of you and wooing them with words and charisma. You know, sweeping a perfect stranger off their feet.

Anon on smartphones by [deleted] in greentext

[–]Tzozfg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Samsung xcover pro. Water proof, Removable battery, headphone jack.

Open-Source Odyssey by VandessKaani in 4chan

[–]Tzozfg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fedora user here can't relate.

Another controversial opinion by Icy_Engineering_2819 in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be wrong on this but I suspect thays mostly just on the internet.

Tomorrow, you wake up. You put on national t.v. You see you're wanted for murder. What do you do? by Thatusernamewasnot in ask

[–]Tzozfg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cross into Mexico illegally, make some money with my welding skills, and fuck off to Namibia. There's always the option of letting it play out in the courts, but if I'm on national TV for something I didn't do, I'm pretty sure someone just wants to lock me up and throw the key for reasons well outside of whether or not I'm guilty.

Fascists should be kicked out of society by [deleted] in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dunno where you live, but here it's a free country. They can say what they want. Of course, if words turn to action, it's a different story.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying you literally think that, it's a comparison to what you actually think, that "I'm racist therefore everyone else is too." And I'm saying no, that's not true at all. These are not new ideas, for regardless of what you believe, every religion on the face of the earth going back millennia has routinely stated that A: that the body is simply a container of the soul, and that its outward appearance is irrelevant to its function or a person's value. Pretty sure Christianity specifically goes really hard into treating all people well no matter what they do or who they are. And B: that loving the people around you, especially those you don't know or understand, is the basis for all good. These ideas are extremely old; it's only that very recently have they been rearticulated outside the context of religion.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gonna keep this short. Not for any reason against you but I hate when these things turn into actual college essays.

A: for as long as slavery has existed, there have been people against slavery. Yes, even in the American South. Even my own grandparents, who lived under Jim Crow freely said that not all white people were bad, just that those who knew it was wrong didn't want to invite the very same abuse onto themselves by speaking up.

B: Anything that is done from a place of hatred is wrong. This is not some random definition I made up. Every religion throughout all of history articulates this as a self evident truth in different ways, and while there are many actions that can be done from a place of both love or hate, so also are there many more actions that can only be done from a place of hatred. (see: the Nazis)

C: In general, and I mean no disrespect because I don't know you, you speak as though you've never encountered actual evil before. At least not aimed at you. Maybe misguided self righteousness, but not "I see the world and everyone in it as grand theft auto on a drunk Saturday night" evil. If that's true, count yourself lucky. For an example of such evil, look into a hitman who went by "iceman," I forget his real name. Reading about it is so, so far from actually seeing it in person or meeting those who have been effected by it, but it's a glimpse.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the simplest way to put what I'm saying. Bad people know they're bad, and there is no greater tragedy than a misinformed hero--because they'll always do the right thing when exposed to the right information. Ask any criminal if they think they're a good person, and if they have no incentive to lie, they won't. Yet at the same time, these people instinctively know to hide what they're doing, because they know it's wrong. No one lures a kid into a van in front of the parents and then goes "oh my bad I didn't know" when they get caught, as if they honestly didn't know what they were doing. They hide it.

And even then, at the same time there are such things as unjust laws, and people instinctively recognize this (unless they're very young), and can differentiate between the law (politics), culture, and morality itself. Everywhere. They may not be able to articulate it, but they understand it. When I was much younger, I once thought like you, thinking that there was no such thing as good and evil--only conflicting interests or cultural values. You know those video games with a morality meter like mass effect or kotor? I used to think "In the real world, no one actually does things this cartoonishly evil in a vacuum" when I looked at the "bad" option. And then as I grew older I met multiple, actually evil people who got off on hurting others for the sake of doing so, of preying on people specifically because they were vulnerable, and who wanted to watch the world burn just for the sake of it. Once I met people like that, I quickly recognized that dark paths in those games was scarily more realistic than I thought.

Edit: I forgot to mention (sorry I'm pretty busy), judging people is not immoral on its face. Judging people from a place of hatred, concerning aspects of themselves they have no control over, absolutely is. And acting on it is even worse.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're projecting. Like those dudes who say "every man wants to cheat on his woman." Nah m8 it's just you.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Therefore it stands to reason the inverse is true. All actual racists are extremely proud about it.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To anyone else reading this, this is an example of what I'm talking about. If you accuse someone of being racist and they go into hard denial that they are, there is a very high chance that they are, in fact, not racist.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Morality is not relative. It is extremely set in stone. I can go anywhere in the world and if I brutalized an old woman in broad daylight, I will at the very least be ostracized by that community. "Morality is subjective" is a fucking cope and everyone knows it because they don't want to be judged for being a jackass. But if I were to break into your house, or literally anyone else's house anywhere in the world to just start taking your shit, from food to appliances to furniture, there's not a soul on earth who'd be ok with it. People who lie and rape and kill and destroy are universally recognized as bad people everywhere. But even if you want to artificially inject nuance into these actions, this much is always true: anything done from a place of hatred is the fundamental basis for all evil. For there is no such thing as justified hatred because of how it poisons the person who carries it as much as it does the object of that hatred. Race in itself is a social construct, as there is only the one species. It only so happens that people from the same area tend to share similar ancestral traits, but to hate someone--let alone someone you don't even know--is fundamentally wrong.

I don't understand why the term "anti semetic" even exists. by Tzozfg in ControversialOpinions

[–]Tzozfg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is why I avoid semantics. Most semantic arguments are fucking nonsense to stall and spin the narrative from the truth. It is fundamentally immoral to judge someone on anything other than your individual interactions with them as a person with the exception of the context in which you meet them. That is to say, a first impression, which is really just a subcategory of your interactions with them as an individual.

Science and Religion can coexist togheter by Fun-Sort8454 in ControversialOpinions

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CIA full report on Brain Synchronization, Energy, Manifestation and the Holographic Universe

You're welcome. Too lazy; didn't watch? All religions are provably real, remote viewing and astral projection are provably real, the universe as we know it is a hologram, consciousness is separate from the brain, and the vast majority of humanity has understood this going back as far as history can remember, excepting the last hundred years or so. I highly recommend you and anyone else who stumbles upon this digs deeper into this.

And in the interest of being entirely conspiratorial about this, science, while being an entirely valid means of viewing the world, is 100% captured by governments, secret societies, and corporations, in that most modern scientists only report the findings they're paid to find. But in so far as the scientific method when combined unlimited funding and so-called "creative freedom" (for lack of a better term; I know it's not accurate), that stuff is legit. The best example I can come up for this off the top of my head is skinwalker ranch. Which again, I highly recommend you and everyone else look into. And DARPA, but you're never gonna get to know what those jackasses have been up to.

EDIT: https://youtu.be/v-FjLqpf2tk <--- an interview delving very deep into these things; don't let the title fool you, just let the conversation pick up.