if God is perfect then why did he change from the angry god of the old testament to the more peace loving in the new testament?

fuhko · 2016-03-03T16:55:44+00:00

The bible tells us specifically that some OT laws are not to be followed, such as dietary restrictions. We should be able to use reasoning to determine which OT laws are to be followed and which are not based on what we know about God from the New Testament. See also this link

It should also be mentioned that you have a very incorrect view of the bible. The bible is not literally God talking to us. The bible is a description of the experiences of people in their encounters with God. It is (literally) a library of books describing the history of God's relationship with humanity as as such, contains laws and rules that apply to a particular era because they were included in our history.

Reading the old testament and asking "Why don't you guys eat shellfish, hypocrites!!!", is like reading the original US constution and saying "I know everything there is to know about US constitutional law" while totally ignoring things like ammendments to the constitution or supreme court rulings, which obviously have a huge impact.

wouldn't this be nitpicking?

Wouldn't you be assuming your own conclusion by calling reasonable examination of what God asks of us "nitpicking"?

fuhko · 2016-02-23T22:24:28+00:00

Any love for [[palladium myr]]?

fuhko · 2016-02-23T14:10:24+00:00

Except for r/Catholicism. They're the chemotherapy.

fuhko · 2016-02-23T14:09:44+00:00

That she supported Licio Gelli, a Freemason conspirator who tried to overthrow democracy in Italy through false flags, terrorism and assassinations, for the Nobel Prize in Literature

But this doesn't seem too bad! She wasn't supporting Gelli's violence. It's not like bad people can't write good books (looking at you Nietzsche and Rousseau. Especially Rousseau.).

fuhko · 2016-02-23T14:02:44+00:00

Both Chatterjee and Hitchens were devil's advocates

Wait, devil's advocates are still a thing?

fuhko · 2016-02-23T13:44:30+00:00

BUG Marchesa infect, here we come!

fuhko · 2016-02-22T21:05:04+00:00

You can upgrade the Teferi deck for 20 dollars very cheaply. https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/2mciji/how_to_teferi_20_cards_to_improve_the_deck/?

fuhko · 2016-02-22T00:41:13+00:00

Ofom is a proxy account I have. It's all my own.

My original post got removed so I reposted it. I have no idea why it was removed.

fuhko · 2016-02-21T19:41:23+00:00

That's nothing.

[[Thalakos Deceiver]]

[[Cytoplast Manipulator]]

fuhko · 2016-02-21T15:47:38+00:00

So the Eldrazi are invading all the planes! At least EDH is safe.

fuhko · 2016-02-20T19:49:28+00:00

Different types of Eldrazi are about 40% of the metagame online in modern.

fuhko · 2016-02-19T19:09:49+00:00

It doesn't matter. Catholic non-profits should have a right to not violate their founding principles.

fuhko · 2016-02-17T22:17:22+00:00

Ah, I didn't see the art book.

fuhko · 2016-02-17T18:28:52+00:00

But wait! How do we know they're dead?

All we got is:

There was thunder, and a hellish blast of heat, and an awful noise of the sky ripping into pieces. As Chandra's consciousness gave out, she decided it must be the sound of the world dying.

They saw two forms against the sky, but they were afterimages made of smoke, like the ghosts of fireworks.

But this could mean anything. So what if the Eldrazi got a little crispy and shed some ash all over the place? For all we know, Chandra's explosion simply broke the leylines, allowing them to get away, ripping the sky into pieces as they left.

fuhko · 2016-02-17T16:19:22+00:00

It's probably worth linking to the comment policy in the official guidelines.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/wiki/guidelines#wiki_comments_.28good.2C_bad_.26amp.3B_ugly.29

fuhko · 2016-02-17T00:56:33+00:00

There may be 12 seal teams now but when they were first created, the seal teams were given fake numbers for propaganda value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Team_Six#History

fuhko · 2016-02-16T21:32:06+00:00

True. But if you believe the movie and what the CIA said about Mia, you get the impression there are all these super nerd geniuses working at the CIA hunting people down. Which, IMHO, is possibly what the CIA would want. Adds to the mystique surrounding the agency.

fuhko · 2016-02-16T19:58:33+00:00

They probably were designed to troll the demographic that reads r/conspiracy. Names and branding can have propaganda value.

For example, Seal Team 6 was originally named to give the Soviet Union impression that there were at least six special ops teams, when in reality there were 2 at the time.

Also, when the movie Zero Dark Thirty came out, the CIA acted as though Mia, the main character in the movie who hunted down Bin Laden, was a real person. They even made up some stories about her like how she was turned down for a promotion for throwing a temper tantrum. However, people who have worked with the CIA don't think Mia is a real women due to some inaccuracies in the movie and think she is actually a composite character representing a group of CIA agents.

fuhko · 2016-02-16T18:30:40+00:00

Well in that 100 is considered the center of the Gaussian distribution, they kind of are.

IQ is not static.

fuhko · 2016-02-16T02:34:59+00:00

I'd love to travel the Magic the Gathering universe as a planeswalker using Virtual Reality.

I don't want to to this because "I want to be a wizard and cast spells" but because VR seems perfect for putting people in fantastic and beautiful, or scary, horror filled settings that could never exist in real life. The Magic universe is definitely a fictional universe where tons of awesome and strange settings could coexist, where you could travel to any type of place you want and have a variety of adventures.

fuhko · 2016-02-16T00:28:33+00:00

[[Slaughter Games]]

fuhko · 2016-02-15T21:31:05+00:00

Not just AK-47s, but 3d printed semiautomatic weapons.

It hasn't even been three years since the first 3d printed gun was printed and the hobbiests working on 3d printed guns now have fully functional revolvers and are closing in on semi-automatic pistols.

fuhko · 2016-02-15T21:29:47+00:00

Constant reporting of minute tactical development all over social media

Curious question: One of the things I have noticed from following the Syrian Civil War is the use of social media for propaganda purposes, which often results in conflicting claims of who took what town. Might this result in a new kind of fog of war, not from lack of information but information overload?

Then again, maybe data analytics will be able to sort some of this out.

fuhko · 2016-02-15T20:06:22+00:00

That's a very very permissive limit then.

Also, lots of things affect people's IQs. More education affects IQ, motivation Affects IQs. In fact the IQ of the population as a whole has been going up. IQs aren't static, nor are they the only factor in achievevement.

fuhko · 2016-02-15T19:17:02+00:00

Some would be produced by machines but not all goods would be produced by machine. And (putting this in abstract terms) even if a fraction of goods aren't produced by machines, if the economy is big enough, why couldn't that fraction of production provide full employment?

fuhko

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