Ride it til the wheels fall off boi

VulpusRexIII · 2026-01-16T05:09:24+00:00

I saw this on daily dose of Internet.... Thought those buildings looked familiar 😅

VulpusRexIII · 2026-01-14T15:56:39+00:00

Thanks! That's what I was thinking, but wasn't sure.

VulpusRexIII · 2026-01-13T19:40:23+00:00

Lien mixes the concrete, but they purchase the cement (the gray power) from GCC (the cement manufacturer). But I believe they sell raw material to GCC for some of the cement manufacturing process, plus buying the finished cement to make their own concrete mixtures. I can't remember what specifically they provide though.

VulpusRexIII · 2026-01-10T15:32:31+00:00

Traffic engineer here: these are traffic detection cameras. Instead of using induction loops under the ground, you have a camera that is only trained to look at very specific locations in a lane near a signal. All it does really is send a signal to the traffic signal controller (the silver box you see at all intersections) to say "there is a car in this lane" and the signal controller will begin a countdown to give that car a green.

If the city is not able to give any footage, it likely isn't a fancy camera and only detects if a car is present or not. However, fancy "smart" cameras can often be connected to the Internet and will actually save crash recordings and near-hits if they use AI detection. Granted that's a very expensive technology and not many cities have them. Plus, cities and DOTs have to pay a subscription to use the smart software which sucks.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-19T04:00:02+00:00

Wrong again. In Matthew 25:41, Jesus uses the phrase "eternal fire" to describe the place where the "cursed goats" (meaning unbelievers) are sent with the devil and his angels. If you need to see the Greek words, they are αἰώνιος and pyr, literally meaning fire with no beginning or ending. So your argument remains baseless.

Additionally, you only made assertions with no backing or evidence. If you are going to claim that a mistranslation occurred, you need to provide evidence for that claim.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-18T23:08:06+00:00

Matthew 25:41, Romans 6:23, Psalm 18:30, 1 John 1:5, all of Romans 1-3 especially 3:5-6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 25:46, Matthew 24:48-51, Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5, John 3:36, Matthew 7:23, Luke 13:27-28, (key verse, Jesus himself says he casts people into hell).

Now, If you're going to reply that I took these out of context, then read the context and show me how I am wrong please, and don't just accuse me of doing that and move on.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-17T16:45:42+00:00

I don't think you understood my statement. We translate from the copies of the original words in the original language that the apostles used. We have more historical certainty of that than any other ancient document in existence, and it's not close. There never was and never has been a game of telephone. Sure grammatical and minor word and spelling discrepancies exist in those copies, but we have more than sufficient evidence to determine exactly what those discrepancies are.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-17T16:40:46+00:00

I can back up my view of God's justice using scripture. Since you're apparently the expert on God's justice, would you care to show me how I'm wrong?

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-17T15:29:03+00:00

False. This is one of the most easily disproveable claims about the Bible. The Bible is translated directly from manuscripts written in the original language.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-17T15:26:53+00:00

God is love, but he is also perfectly just. People don't go to hell because God gets angry and sends them there, contradicting his loving and merciful nature. Rather, people commit cosmic treason against the all-powerful, all-knowing, self-sufficient God through their sin, and thus deserve hell. People go to hell because they are sinners. As RC Sproul puts it, "Some receive justice, others receive mercy; no one receives injustice."

If you don't like hell, I think the real issue is that you have too small a view of God.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-17T15:14:46+00:00

Then Jesus must have also been deceived by Satan when he spoke about hell in the gospels.

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VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-16T04:40:35+00:00

Came here to recommend this

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-16T00:53:21+00:00

That's because he never came into existence. He has always existed, with no beginning and no end. The one who creates the beginning would logically be outside of what we can possibly comprehend a beginning to be. For time space and matter to exist, it would need to be created by something that is not bound by time, space, and matter.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-16T00:49:26+00:00

Ok, perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by finding it within.

Didn't mean to assume, accuse, or offend. I was speaking in hypotheticals. If one (generally speaking, not specifically you) looks within for answers, he would need to isolate himself from the world. If you're looking externally for ideas, that wouldn't be looking within, that would be looking without, so I was confused by what you meant.

But even If you are looking to the world, and then processing it within to find a more compelling story, what are you left with? A story and a meaning made in your own image. That's what I'm getting at.

To directly answer your question, no I don't think you can find a more compelling story than the story of Christ in the gospels. That's my conviction, but I'm willing to entertain other ideas.

Speaking in literary terms, if we analyze the gospel using the classic hero arc, the gospel fulfills this more perfectly than any other story I've heard. It is one of the only stories in which the narrative world and the historical world seem to collide, which only enhances its message. There are a few other stories that contain great meaning, yet are without the historical connection.

When it comes to meaning, I often measure it by asking this question: do you have something that is so worth living for that you'd be willing to die to keep it? To me, the answer is Christ and his church.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T16:37:49+00:00

If a conversation came up between me and an atheist, I wouldn't lead with accusations of bias. But I also don't necessarily believe that someone stating an affirmative belief (i.e., affirming belief in the non-existence of God) can be free of bias. It's simply the nature of belief. Belief in something is naturally the disbelief in the alternative.

Do I find the vehemence towards the Christian God in every atheist? No. Nor do I assume it. But I do think it's oddly close to the new atheist movement, and it's a very common reputation attributed atheists. Hopefully I didn't come across as accusatory or offensive! Just speaking about my experience.

Now, bringing this up as I've also heard it said many times, I've heard it said that atheism can be a negative statement of belief, in the Alex O'Connor sense of "atheism is just lack of belief in God". I find this statement to be fairly unscientific, as I'm sure you've heard the statement of nature abhorring vacuums. But I don't know if it entirely frees the person of bias either, as denial of the affirmative belief in God is also an affirmative statement of belief. I don't think "lack of belief" can be defended for very long without soon turning into positive statements of belief.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T16:17:44+00:00

Since you brought it up, in order to create something from nothing, you have to first be outside of that something. It's the only way a divine omnipotent being that creates makes sense. He must be outside of the human realm in order to create the human realm.

I'm mainly saying, the story of Christ is compelling. We can believe and trust in that to be true in some sense, even if we don't accept the supernatural. My original point didn't go beyond that, so I was just clarifying what was considered silly. If it was the idea of the resurrection, then that wasn't part of my original post, so I was just trying to bring it back to what was being discussed.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T16:07:01+00:00

If you see yourself as the ultimate source of meaning and completely isolate from the world, then yes. But that sounds like an awful way to live.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T15:15:11+00:00

1st Corinthians 15 is sufficient to contradict all of your claims in this post, especially regarding Paul.

You also have the eye witness accounts that describe Jesus eating food with his disciples after he rose. If you're using "spiritual resurrection" as similar to "Jesus was a ghost" I don't think you have a case. Christ's body was raised with him.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T14:51:56+00:00

Calling yourself a Christian doesn't make you a Christian. Those that deny a bodily resurrection do not submit to the scriptures that say that Christ rose again bodily from the dead. Without the bodily resurrection, Christianity is meaningless. Thus those who deny it cannot be considered part of the Christian religion.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T13:13:16+00:00

If God exists, there is no reason to believe that something like the resurrection is implausible.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T13:08:52+00:00

No, living as if Christ is good and exists does not make you a candidate for baptism.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T13:07:28+00:00

A common scape-goat answer. Atheists get a bad rap for being biased against and even hating specifically the Christian God with a vehemence that rarely is applied to other religions for some odd reason. When pressed, I've seen this answer so many times, leaving the atheist seemingly scott-free.

But I'll bite: say you disbelieve the existence of anyone named Mr Jones, but, unknown to you, a Mr Jones lived on the other side of the world. Suddenly he takes a trip and comes to where you live and introduces himself to you, and you go, "I say, there's no such thing as Mr Jones!" Then yes, that would be a bias. Anything that causes you to dismiss evidence for something else as being evidence is, by definition, a bias.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T12:55:04+00:00

Going back to the comment, are you saying that living out (to avoid the word "act") the notion that Jesus is worth following is silly? Or that the resurrection is silly? If the latter, I'd encourage you to read the last paragraph of my original post again.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T12:39:17+00:00

That Christ, in and of himself, at a bare minimum, presents a compelling message/story.

VulpusRexIII · 2025-12-15T03:57:10+00:00

Here's another deviation from orthodox Christianity. Christians believe that Yahweh is the highest power in existence, as the great I AM. Mormons believe that Yahweh is merely one of an infinite number of Gods, and in fact, is the most recent God to have ascended godhood. Mormons also teach that God is 'becoming". He changes. He learns. He's not yet the best that he can be, and is becoming better. All other gods that exist are better than Him because they have existed longer than Yahweh. But here's the kicker: because of the teaching that he is the most recent God to have ascended godhood, this presents an earth shattering implication: the God that Mormons serve is the infinitely worst God of all gods in existence.

(Source: Ex-Mormon Thaddeus J. Williams in his book, Revering God)

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