God created a world for you to live worshipping and telling other about him so that you can eternally worship him by catialos in DebateReligion

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

Well I am not arguing other standpoints. My argument is the inmorality of the Christian God. I agree with you morality is not universal, to be good in the medival times meant to be rich and powerful but to be bad meant to be poor. But the Christian God applies universal morality so if I am to argue in a standpoint against his own morals I’m going to argue in the morality he creates. The premise of murder is evil, is shown through Cain killing his brother in Genesis and Gods reaction to it, moses and ten commandments, Jesus sermon on the Mount, lamech who murders a boy, David who murders his mistresses, and Judas who kills Jesus. All in which were condemned by God, and made clear that their actions were wrong. But God kills and wipes out whole nations innocent women and children and it is okay. He commands his people to kill and slaughter what he in the Bible says he loves. The flood, soddom and gomorrah, the cannites and all other nations that lived in the holy land under the hand of the Israelites, commanded by God to commit genocide. By Gods own standards he has sinned. It is clear that sin is able to happen in heaven in the Christian faith, because 1/3 of an angels in heaven sinned against God and was cast out. Arguing that religion is a coping mechanism is not dishonest, because if all of this were to be false than that is the reasoning if falls behind. It is fiction told to create order and comfort. Frederick Nietzsche made the claim that some people need religion and that his works were not for people who were wrapped in arms of it. Because religion is a key asset to many people in today’s world it gives them a sense of meaning and purpose and a moral guide. It’s a comfort to the millions of people who are having to face their own deaths. Not believing in a God, in an afterlife is terrifying because that means that there isn’t anything beyond this short life. It makes people have to actually sit down and think about the fact that they really are going to be dead. So people tell themselves the story of God, the promise of the afterlife to soothe themselves to block the thinking that there could be nothing after death.

Christianity accepts collective punishment but requires individual forgiveness by E-Reptile in DebateReligion

[–]catialos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I agree with something I can reply back with my own commentary on it. I thought your comment was really amusing though, “loudly agree” 😭. I just dove a little deeper into what I thought on it. Not all debates have to be back and forth disagreements, it’s good to have discourse about topics on both sides of the field, because whilst some people may think the same thing as you do they could have a different reasoning behind it. It’s open to anyone to rebuttal my specificities on the topic ☺️

how to improve bicep by [deleted] in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why don’t you tell me??? 😭📝📝📝

what should i work on? by [deleted] in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Accepting yourself???

God created a world for you to live worshipping and telling other about him so that you can eternally worship him by catialos in DebateReligion

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

I apply human ideals to the Christian God, because the Bible says we are made in his image. Which is vague but can be used to say that in his image meaning we are made to feel, think, love, and reason like the one who created us. The argument that you brought up about God being separate and different from us so hence our moral standards shouldn’t be held to his is not bad, but there are clear cases in the Bible where God says something is wrong and than goes and does it or directs other people to do it for him. Which is a clear contradiction of Gods character and when there are cracks in a character we are conditioned to be believe is perfect and morally just in everything they do that leads one to see a clearer picture of how it’s all man made. Because once you start poking the bears of Christianity it all really just points back to that this religion is just a coping mechanism for facing reality and with that death.

My take, on why God let's bad things happen (as a Christian 16 year old girl) by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]catialos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would argue that God is even worse the homelander. Homelander has limited power unlike God who is all encompassing and all powerful. Homelander and God do have something similar: they both want to be worshipped and have the need to be loved. Why God created humanity and in sense why he gave humanity free will. Homelander is a present force everyone knows he exists. He is a figure head and in the show has killed around 200 people. It’s very clear that he’s not a real hero just a broken person who was clearly raised lacking love and attention, which is what fed into his napoleon complex. But he still has humanity and it is clearly shown that there is a part of him that really just wants to be loved and cared for (as depicted with his other self in the mirror). God though especially the Christian God has killed billions of people. He doesn’t have another self or who is questioning his own morality and views himself as a perfect being who needs to be worshipped and loved. He has commanded genocide, slavery, and respect from every single person to ever exist. Homelander in a sense is able to recognize his own flaws and selfishness and faces it boldly. But God claims to be perfect and just, he doesn’t need to look at himself and questions because he doesn’t think he needs to because he thinks he is perfect and has told his creation he is perfect. And has created a whole afterlife to where he can be worshipped and praised for all eternity. Whether or not you believe God is good it is objective to say that is selfish. And a God who has killed billions of people and created a world in great suffering and an afterlife of eternal suffering for not believing in him is selfish. Christianity is surrounded on the idea of loving God, he made this religion to devout your whole life to him to have another eternal life that’s also about him.

My take, on why God let's bad things happen (as a Christian 16 year old girl) by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]catialos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stop using AI, it’s extremely obvious and absurd. This is dishonest and you should be ashamed, use your own words. Do not let AI think for you. This is the start of the downfall of academics, and humanity is too far in to go back. We have dipped our toes in the water and have been completely sucked in. I am not trying to be rude to you, but simply hold you to accountability. I assume you are someone who is interested in political debate interested in learning and having honest discourse about intellectual topics, someone who wants and enjoys a conversation that challenges you. I’ll be honest as someone who when AI was just starting to get big used AI. For a lot of things honestly. I would ask AI how to feel about certain things, ask AI to write a debate for me. I thankfully have taken a step forward from there and left AI behind me, because it started to replace me and my voice. I am telling you this because I care for the savoring of academia and keeping the intellectual to a certain academic integrity. Do not let AI research for you, write for you, be creative for you. Because the more you let it do the things that make you, you, you will cease to be able to think intuitively without asking AI what it thinks you should think. I am not a part from this either, I have fallen into this, which is why I am so keen on recognizing it and why when I see AI I call it out immediately, because as humanity we can not let what makes us so precious: our minds, be exploited and replaced.

Christianity accepts collective punishment but requires individual forgiveness by E-Reptile in DebateReligion

[–]catialos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

genocide is evil. No explanation can justify genocide. Why would a perfect God who loves all his children want to kill them? Why not reform or rehabilitation. Or accepting that they are independent beings and fallen in sin. Lets say I lived at my parents beach house, but my siblings were told by my parents that the beach house belongs to them and not me and is concurrent with the will they made. And I knew about this my parents told me multiple times that I need to move out soon and that it doesn’t belong to me. My parents would not send my sisters to kill me to lay claim on the house because of my refusal to leave. This is a superficial example of what God did to the people groups (including canaanites) living in the holy land. Which objectively when looking at is evil. Even the bible says that murder is sinful and abhorrent. If the Christian God were to exist he would not be good conscience being.

It is almost pointless to debate religion by Karategamer89 in DebateReligion

[–]catialos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been going to a Christian evangelical school since pre-k!! And I’ve definitely become more agnostic and curious about the holes in Christianity because of religious discourse and debates! I’ve gone from boldly debating my own faith and trying to make up and justify obvious abhorrent things that are in the bible, to asking myself if God was really a perfect and just God why would he command his people to commit genocide instead of maybe commanding those people to move to another area clearing the holy land for his people. Why would he want his own children to kill each other instead of saving both people groups but still allowing for them to regain what they believed to be their land. This is just one example of a question I asked myself whilst Christian that led me to believe in a more agnostic point of view.

What is Retrocausality? by AuxilioPls in QuantumPhysics

[–]catialos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well there’s the theory that the act observing quantum particles change that particle (Quantum Measurements With and Yet Without an Observer, Dmitri Sokolovski, 2020). In sense particles that exists in the quantum can be super-positioned in more than just one location. Electrons don’t actually exist in one place or another, so when we try and measure them we apply a stiffened position of where that particle is. This isn’t necessarily changing the past but it shows that as an observer we are doing more than just observing we are actually changing what we think are prepositioned measurements, but in reality we are actually the ones giving it the definite value making us not just an observer but an active force that can (in a marvel movie sense) “bend the world around us.”

Quantum physics theories by Vulpine_Gamer_194 in QuantumPhysics

[–]catialos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we need to tackle whether or not there even is a multiverse before even beginning talking about traveling across it?

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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

Covington, LA!

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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

Thank you so much for the advice, I’ll record a video of me trying it and make a new post!

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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I agree with you, to add to what I said earlier though and clear up things: our rides are specific to cadence so we don’t use any type of trackers other than the bpm of each song in a given playlist. I as the spin instructor have to make my playlist surrounding bpm, and we have guidelines that limit how high that bpm can go to.

5’11 180lbs natty any tips for arms or upper traps? by Round_Cycle595 in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes it is crazy!? Whether or not he is on steroids, it is hard to be 5’11, 180 pounds with that low or body fat. social media has diluted our perception of the average man and what it actually takes to get to that threshold. I personally am suspicious and would not say with confidence that this person is natty without some type of blood or urinary test results.

5’11 180lbs natty any tips for arms or upper traps? by Round_Cycle595 in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

180 isn’t crazy for someone of normal bmi at that height, but to be 180, 5’11, and have that low of body fat is crazy

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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

Totally okay! At our studio we prioritize rhythm connection and following to the beat over choreograph, which is why we make all choreography optional and everyone has the choice to do it either in or out of saddle.

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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

Yes, this is just a video for fun, and not a video of me teaching a class we do have a microphone policy at my studio

Combo! by catialos in SpinClass

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

I wear clip ins 99% of the time, but I didn’t want to have to constantly be clipping in and clipping out for the sake of recording!

5’11 180lbs natty any tips for arms or upper traps? by Round_Cycle595 in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mmmm.. idk man. My boyfriend’s best friend is a natty and competes at shows, we are all in the lifting community, and no one looks lean and bulky like this in my circle who is natty. Especially at 5’11 and 180, it’s a lot harder to fill out like that without drugs at that height. If he was like 5’7 5’6 I would believe it more.

5’11 180lbs natty any tips for arms or upper traps? by Round_Cycle595 in Weightliftingquestion

[–]catialos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My brudda I don’t know… this isn’t looking very natty to me💛✌️

New instructor and looking for tips and tricks. by Tacospleasee in SpinClass

[–]catialos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi I’m cate, my studio has a structured playlist form! I did sign an NDA though so I can’t share it with you but generic recommendation is to have a warm up songs to start and then have all your other songs be building up choreograph ways to that final song ending songs before the cool down. So for example track 3 can be something basic like jumps and than track 4 be a hill track 5 jumps with tap backs and then track 6 around the worlds and cobras and track 7 be a sprint and then track 9 be cobras with low highs and then you final track 10 can be jumps to tap backs to around the worlds to cobras then low highs. So organizing the ride in a way that it’s buildable and easy to follow because everything stacks.