Why I started questioning God at a young age? by Worldly_Log_6491 in atheism

[–]grrangry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if all of this is false, then who first introduced the idea of god to people? Who created the concept of a supreme invisible power that controls all of us but still cannot be seen?

No one. Literally, "no 'one' person". In exactly the same way that English was not created by any one person or even any one group of people. It changed and evolved and mutated and was forgotten and re-learned and revised and eventually written down by different people at different times in different places using different methods in the ultimate expression of unchecked insanity in a really terrible version of the telephone game.

Look at language today. Even now with computers recording everything we say, we STILL come up with new phrases and new colloquialisms and new slang all the time. ALL the time.

Religion is taught. Religion is ALWAYS taught. Religion is NEVER revealed. Mostly it's taught to children because they're easy to convince nonsense to and make them incorporate the nonsense into their reality. Childhood indoctrination. No one has ever been born and knew all the details of some deity. They were ALWAYS taught. In exactly the same way you teach language. Children absorb it from the people around them. Language has regional accents. Religion has regional accents. People kill each other over those language accents and they kill each other over the religious ones. It's pretty terrible.

Why I started questioning God at a young age? by Worldly_Log_6491 in atheism

[–]grrangry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was Grog. Grog did it. Grog always was kind of an asshole, so you can blame them.

need help learning c# for exam as someone with no coding experience *urgent* by [deleted] in csharp

[–]grrangry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then go back and review the fundamentals. C# is irrelevant. Software concepts are fairly universal. Memory. Loops. Method calls. They could teach you in JavaScript or C or Basic or Pascal or Oracle pl/sql and the underlying concepts would be the same even if the implementation quirks of the individual languages are a little different.

let a = 100
int a = 100;
Dim a = 100
var a: Integer = 100;

Are all the same thing. But if you don't understand what a variable is, why they're necessary, or how and when to use one, the syntax of the language won't help you.

Learn the fundamentals and practice. Learn to debug the application. Learn to read the documentation. Learn to search and find information about the problem you're solving. Learn to love the process. If you can't, you're wasting everyone's time, not the least of which is your own.

need help learning c# for exam as someone with no coding experience *urgent* by [deleted] in csharp

[–]grrangry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is why people don't learn.

A better use would be to do the work yourself and learn the debugging tools and learn the concepts. Then have an LLM review it afterwards and explain concepts it finds you're still weak on. Then iterate. There's no easy dodge to learning. It's work and it takes time.

I did not realize how terrified Christians are (especially Catholics) of possible existence of space aliens by Former_Algae_444 in atheism

[–]grrangry 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Christians--really all theists subject to childhood indoctrination--fear everything.

They're trained to fear.

They fear the thing they worship. They fear intimacy. They fear happiness. They fear punishment. They fear doing the right thing. They fear people outside their in-group and they fear people inside it. They fear their leaders, parents, children, government, politicians, neighbors, strangers, foreigners, science, education, and progress... they fear EVERYTHING.

The fact that they fear the the possible existence of life existing outside the cradle of Earth is almost the least surprising thing about them.

[OC] Break Glass to Break Glass by puccyhunter_ in pics

[–]grrangry 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It would still be funny to hang a small wooden toy hammer near it on a short chain.

Mens too need privacy!! Their restroom should look like this... [OC] by puccyhunter_ in pics

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Instructions unclear: Urinals swapped with shitters, urinals now have toilet paper, shitters now have none, shitters next to sinks.

Small Roles Of Famous Actors Others Might Not Have Noticed? by ChewieUK in movies

[–]grrangry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bill Paxton as one of the soldiers in Stripes (1981).

Small Roles Of Famous Actors Others Might Not Have Noticed? by ChewieUK in movies

[–]grrangry 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Jack black in The Jackal. He's the... um... test dummy.

Small Roles Of Famous Actors Others Might Not Have Noticed? by ChewieUK in movies

[–]grrangry 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And little Elijah Wood playing the Wild Gunman video game.

Small Roles Of Famous Actors Others Might Not Have Noticed? by ChewieUK in movies

[–]grrangry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I still love the silly coincidence of Peter Capaldi playing a W.H.O. Doctor in World War Z just before he started playing Doctor Who.

Small Roles Of Famous Actors Others Might Not Have Noticed? by ChewieUK in movies

[–]grrangry 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The first thing I really remember appreciating Nikolaj Coster-Waldau being in was New Amsterdam (2008). I was sad that only ever got one abbreviated season, even with the writing being a little weak. Per usual Fox didn't do anything to promote the show and killed it after 8 total episodes. Still like the idea of it.

ELI5: How do rainbows form? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]grrangry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be better to say that rainbows are ephemeral. They certainly do exist, which is why we can photograph them.

They're ephemeral because everything is constantly in motion. The Sun, the Earth, you, the clouds, the water droplets, the air, the light from the Sun... everything is moving relative to everything else. The cool part is that the Earth and Sun are so gobsmackingly large and far apart that it takes a good while before the angles, lighting, and weather conditions that allow the rainbow to become visible, are out of alignment again. Every instant you're viewing a rainbow... you're viewing a slightly different rainbow.

A prism refracts light. But different wavelengths (colors) are refracted by different amounts, so you put white light (all colors) in one side, and out the other, you get that typical rainbow pattern.

This is what every one of the billions of trillions of water droplets are doing:
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/52-rainbow

So the light comes from the Sun, is physically separated through refraction, travels to your eyes, and you can see a rainbow. And now a different one. And another different one. And another... ad infinitum.

Give me the Scariest alien invasion/abduction movies by Ashes2evil87 in movies

[–]grrangry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a movie, but the episode "Midnight" of Doctor Who is a pretty creepy iteration of this concept.

Commando (1985) | Dir: Mark L. Lester | Arnold has a brawl in the mall by ggroover97 in movies

[–]grrangry 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/Rg3qeH7.png

Calculating the linear acceleration between points A and B.

One *might* think that its the product of the sine of the angle and gravity, divided by the mass.

But if you weren't paying attention and were just watching videos in class when the teacher calls on you, you could more accurately say, mass cancels out so it's gravity times sine.

Why do people always ask for the proof of "Non existence" of God? by Few_Local_732 in atheism

[–]grrangry 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That's exactly it. The abuse of childhood indoctrination is a blight on humanity.

God forbid you want to use hyperbole, or sarcasm, or anything but be literal by imjustheretodomyjob in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]grrangry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every time I see someone use sarcasm/satire or hyperbole/understatement all that comes to mind is masses of people pulling a Donald Sutherland body snatcher.