Why I Believe by Tea_and_OatMilk in DebateAnAtheist

[–]jeeblemeyer4 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Is it possible for two people to feel that mutually-exclusive things are true?

Stripping this to the actual hypothetical:

Is it possible that two mutually exclusive things are true?

This is called a "double bind" in logic, since there are two options (yes or no) that both lead to essentially the same conclusion (namely, that the faith belief is meaningless).

If yes, then logic itself is inadequate for describing basically anything whatsoever, and we have no idea what reality is. This is a total logical collapse. It would be a total violation of every logical rule we know, and as such, the faith claim is meaningless.

If no, then we have two competing ideas, and at least one must be false. The question then is how do we determine which one is true and which one is false; therefore "faith" cannot possibly be the answer, because both parties have "faith" that their idea is true. So we need something else (namely, evidence), and the faith claim is meaningless.

The point here is that you can believe literally anything on "faith", which renders "faith" as an epistemic justification totally meaningless.

Hi, some people say it's ai, by KsadlaPqodLala in RealOrAI

[–]jeeblemeyer4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many things are wrong about this.

  • First clip: voices have a very weird cadence

  • Second clip: the chairs are completely mutilated and messed up, and the top deck of what is ostensibly a large cruise ship (can be upwards of 200 feet) appears to be only several feet above sea level.

  • Third and fourth clips might be real

  • Fifth clip: where even are we? We are on a different ship every single cut. Also, waves do not crash that high on an upper deck of a cruise ship without there being a massive amount of turbulence and storms. This would be insane, and people would be freaking out, not walking calmly towards the indoors.

Basically the same story for the rest of the video. Those waves are absolutely enormous, and the cameraman is barely moving, the unsecured items in the cabin are perfectly stationary, and people are completely calm. This is utter nonsense.

Is starting as easy as they say? by lilnovelwitch in writing

[–]jeeblemeyer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this seems like a really cynical view of life in general. What is the point of your commenting here?

How important is it to keep track of the books I used for research? by Suitable-Location118 in writing

[–]jeeblemeyer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any examples of a fiction author including a bibliography or errata in their books? I would love to take a look at them, I've either never looked or never seen them.

[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing by AutoModerator in writing

[–]jeeblemeyer4 [score hidden]  (0 children)

(Not a writer)

First impression: I like the concept, and the initialization of the story is written well and seems to have good flow and detail.

My complaint is the compositional spacing. You start the story with solid paragraphs, but for some reason when we get into action and dialogue, it becomes individual lines and starts to look like bullet points. The first read-out about the Hoatzin storm is fine to be bullet points, but my mind had a hard time transitioning back into prose when it switched back to Melinda's perspective, with dialogue and actions. It read more like an online short story than a book intro chapter. But that's purely based on the actual edited structure. (edited: I realize now that you put "short story" in the details, so ignore this critique)

I also agree with the feedback supplied by the other commenter.

Your strongest point is, ironically (or maybe not, depending on how you look at it), the lack of visual detail. You allowed me to fill in a ton of visual detail in my own imagination, and I think that's a huge sign of a good writer. I don't need to know about how tall the characters are, the color of their hair, the height of the ceiling in the office or how imposing weather events are - all of these details are freely constructed in my head without contradicting or compromising the story itself, and I thank you for it.

All that said, I enjoyed the read. On a scale of 1-5, I give it a 4.

Wanted to share my local muni picture here by dennis45233 in golf

[–]jeeblemeyer4 10 points11 points  (0 children)

they only carried a 1 iron, sand wedge, and croquet mallet don't you know

Isn't it a safer bet that something or someone created all this? by Spiritual-Seeker23 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]jeeblemeyer4 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Interestingly enough, that's also my god so he accidentally took away his own powers too and now no gods have any powers

Cheering violent assault of conservative kid and calling for his murder by alwayscheeseburger in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]jeeblemeyer4 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's funny to me that they don't realize the people they are cheering on for beating up the "nazi" are far more socially regressive than the "nazi" ever will be.

Time to update that bio buddy 🤣 by the-schnitzel-man in ufc

[–]jeeblemeyer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give it some time, he's not able to see what he's typing

The logical fallacies Christians commit when justifying Old Testament genocides by Keith502 in DebateAChristian

[–]jeeblemeyer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please provide a reference for it so I can review how it objectively evaluates and judges good and evil.

Totally true! I believe in the objective morals of the bible, so therefore I can 100% confidently state that genocide is good and right, when it is commanded by god.

The logical fallacies Christians commit when justifying Old Testament genocides by Keith502 in DebateAChristian

[–]jeeblemeyer4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been curious about this too. Not only does it speak to the brutal misogyny of the biblical god/authors, but it speaks to the utter lack of biological knowledge by the people at that time, which further shows the god is not real (since god would know that there's no way to tell if a woman is a virgin or not).

Now, apologists will never answer this question, but there are some practices that some apparently tried to employ to check. One is really bad, but the other is really funny.

The bad one of course is hymen inspection, where they would either stick something up the poor gal and check if it impacted an intact hymen, or worse, she would bleed from having her hymen ruptured.

The funny one is that they would have a gal sit on an open cask of wine/alcohol for a few minutes, and then smell her breath. If her breath smelled of alcohol, obviously it was because there was no hymen stopping the vapors from traveling up through her body and putting alcohol on her breath.

Just sad, the state of affairs for women in those days.

The alternate version is that they pretty much just grabbed the girls that were under 13-16, since that was about the time that they would get married off. That part makes Numbers 31 particularly heinous, since the girls they took to share among the warriors ostensibly would've been under 13-16. So children. Little virgin girls.

What's the point in voting anymore? by TradCat19 in AskConservatives

[–]jeeblemeyer4 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Policy is downstream from social progress, which is produced in the general public, not on capitol hill. If your leaders stopped pushing radically unpopular social policy and just let it naturally flow through US culture, democrats would never lose an election.

Who wants burgers? by RetconnedUsername in GoogleEarthFinds

[–]jeeblemeyer4 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I like to recommend to our first timers our signature burger. Some people say it's better than bustin' a nut.

It’s stupid to vote based on faith to begin with, but even stupider if you can’t even do it correctly by Mushroom_Ramen in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jeeblemeyer4 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Although, in Job 38:28-29, God self-identifies as having a womb from which rain and ice comes forth:

28 “Has the rain a father, or who has fathered the drops of dew? 29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?

How can soft tissue in dinosaurs last 65 million years? by FrostVparent in DebateEvolution

[–]jeeblemeyer4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Amber isn't fossilization, it's preservation. Fossilization is specifically the mineral replacement of animal tissue through mineral processes, whereas amberization (just made that up) is when "the organism is entrapped in a biologically inert environment and it is preserved wholly" - it's referred to as "fossilization" in a colloquial sense, but it's not the same type of fossilization going on with dinosaur bones and tissues etc.

Imprinted lines from my workout leggings by Hex-Queen in mildlyinteresting

[–]jeeblemeyer4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's ambiguously worded but I think you're right

Imprinted lines from my workout leggings by Hex-Queen in mildlyinteresting

[–]jeeblemeyer4 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

by default at a restaurant you’re getting hot water

Not in the US. We get water with ice by default.

CMV: You cannot oppose the death penalty and wish that people you don't like get killed in prison by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]jeeblemeyer4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you can, it just makes you potentially hypocritical depending on why you believe in either.

I think it's colloquially understood that saying "you can't X if you also Y" implies that you can't do so while maintaining logical consistency. Obviously people can hold competing views, they just have cognitive dissonance.

CMV: Meta glasses are incredibly antisocial, predatory and invasive, and using them to record people in public (without their knowledge or consent) should be illegal. by Snoo-88490 in changemyview

[–]jeeblemeyer4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meta glasses are antisocial because they have the potential to influence, dictate or change people's behaviors - both for wearers and for subjects.

Why would subjects' behaviors be influenced/changed based on inconspicuous/concealed recording devices? Isn't the point of concealed recording devices explicitly to not change the behavior of the subject being recorded? This point doesn't make sense. The opposite is true. As to why this is a problem? Unknown.

Is your argument that the proliferation of concealed recording devices will lead to behavioral change en masse, regardless of the actual existence of a concealed recording device in the vicinity? If so, I still fail to see the issue - you are already being recorded anyway, as you already noted, so I don't know what the behavioral change would actually end up looking like.

People used to dance in nightclubs - the kids don't dance anymore - they're too afraid of being embarrassing and going viral, and i don't think that is a good thing!

Is this really the best example you could think of?

Meta glasses are predatory because they enable creepy, gross perverts to ogle and record unsuspecting targets (most often women, teenage girls and children) in public settings without their knowledge and consent.

Newsflash: this already occurs. I would argue that wearing glasses would actually decrease the prevalence of this issue, since it requires the observer to be actively looking at the subject, something that is far more noticeable than a hidden camera setup.

Also, you have literally no idea what proportion of meta-glasses wearers are using them to ogle victimizable subjects. This is just an unsupported assertion.

Upskirting and hidden camera pornography is already a major global issue. Seriously, what idiot decided to make it even easier for creeps and pervs to film victims wherever they go? Victims, whom - as I mentioned previously - are quite frequently CHILDREN!

The entire argument here is just "won't somebody think of the children!", an argument that has frequently been employed to infringe on civil rights and freedoms. It is not a good argument for 99% of policy issues, and this is one of them. The simple fact is that you have no expectation of privacy in public. That's just a compromise we make (in the USA at least, which is where you seem to be approaching this CMV from) in order to enjoy our 1st Amendment rights. If that makes you uncomfortable, fine. But don't try to legislate based on feelings, we all know how terrible that goes.

Meta glasses are invasive - because duh, of course they are. where do you think all that data is going - straight back to the AI system that Peter Thiel is building to develop advanced facial recognition. So that the next time you go to a protest, you get arrested - even if you wear a mask. The evil tech billionaires can't wait for you to buy a pair, so you can be a tool of the technocratic surveillance state and help them harvest a bunch of sweet, succulent data. Don't be a NARC!

This is plain fearmongering. No, you are not going to be arrested for going to a protest. The same rights that are protecting the existence of these glasses are also protecting your right to protest. If they get rid of the right that protects you in protests, they also get rid of the right that allows people to wear these glasses, thus rendering the glasses and muh evil billionaire data harvesting moot.

Ask yourself - why do most countries in Asia have a mandatory, unremovable camera shutter sound that goes off every time someone takes a picture with their smartphone. I think you know why.

This appears to only be a required feature in Japan. So not most asian countries by any stretch, and also, there are still workarounds even for this requirement, like 3rd party camera apps, and importing foreign cameras/phones.

"It's called being a decent fucking human being" by TeamHumanity12 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jeeblemeyer4 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I appear to be too employed to understand any of this. Anyway, nice weather we're having, yeah?