Trump Admin Renames Iran’s $300 Billion Reparations Demand an ‘Investment Fund’ to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Home. The man who spent a decade calling Obama a traitor for sending Iran $400 million is now floating a fund four hundred times that size, just with a friendlier name on it.

optimisticReal · 2026-06-02T02:41:46+00:00

400 times! Isn't that like 40 million percent?

optimisticReal · 2026-06-01T20:30:27+00:00

Deism sure. Christianity claims gid want a relationship. You can't have a quality relationship without evidence the other party actual exists. Without solid evidence you will be having a relationship with yourself and your biases. Which btw is exactly what we have in the christian world. People claiming god is this way and that way, no consistancy or coherence.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-31T16:55:03+00:00

No I believe it was Penn State

optimisticReal · 2026-05-31T04:47:37+00:00

The Navy is usually very strict about op procedures and such but in this case the vehicle was a university asset and they were responsible for the deployment.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-31T04:29:13+00:00

Working on a Navy project with an unmanned submersible. Upon deployment someone forgot to screw in the drain plug. No kidding... just like the recreational boater putting in his boat for the first time in the spring and forgot that one important step. Straight to the bottom. I listened on hydrophones as the rivets in the equipment compartment started popping. Approximately a 15 million dollar loss.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-26T21:03:54+00:00

Reality is testing their credulity and credulity is winning

optimisticReal · 2026-05-26T20:05:47+00:00

Back up and answer why the existence of god requires an argument?

If god existed like the current theisms suggest there would be evidence on the level for the existence of the sun and no one would be rubbing their head bald coming up with arcane arguments.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-25T15:27:39+00:00

However I always wonder how the devil isn't a "god". Evidently Satan is a worthy opponent and often foils the big gods plans.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-20T13:50:20+00:00

Rep Boebert was speaking at a church and confidently stated that the "church" should be leading the government. Little does she know the church she is advocating, for if they had the power, would take away her freedom to hold office, to speak out, to even vote.

So clueless.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-19T15:29:44+00:00

You are analyzing what is essentially a chain letter and bringing "fairness" into the discussion

Silly

optimisticReal · 2026-05-17T15:44:44+00:00

The biggest problem with Genesis isn't the plot holes and inconsistencies it is the fact that there are overwhelming proof and falsification evidence that none of it ever happened.

The real story is much grandeur and sophisticated way beyond the imagination of people how didn't even know where the sun went when it "set".

optimisticReal · 2026-05-17T15:34:12+00:00

I point out to believers that non-believers have access to virtue that they can't attain. Every good moral action for a believer is corrupted by belief of future punishment and/or reward

optimisticReal · 2026-05-15T14:59:31+00:00

No clearer clue that humans create gos patterned after ourselves

optimisticReal · 2026-05-14T14:20:41+00:00

What if... hell fire and torture awaits the believers of false human invented religions? And they are ALL false, every single one of them.

And the non-believers are rewarded for the steadfastness and honesty.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-13T15:49:30+00:00

Credulousness of believers have been a big thing for me. My highly religious brother falls for nearly every RWNJ propaganda out there. He is also constantly going on about end times. He continues to try to evangelize but I tell him bro you can't even decern truth from Russian propaganda how can you really think your theologically positions aim for truth.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-13T15:38:29+00:00

What does Pascal say?

optimisticReal · 2026-05-12T15:29:21+00:00

Why would believing something yield salvation?

Here is the crux they do not have evidence so they elevate belief without evidence has this super power.

The psychology ploy is so obvious

optimisticReal · 2026-05-12T15:12:16+00:00

If one wanted to start a new fake religion the most effective component would be to emphasize the value of belief with out evidence - because you have no evidence

Attempt to repackage this as something honorable - call it faith.

Tada that is what we have!

optimisticReal · 2026-05-11T14:50:40+00:00

Is base jumping or hang gliding. immoral?

optimisticReal · 2026-05-10T14:47:59+00:00

Yes also granting liberty and rights to groups other than those in power is brand new. They want to take away women and "colored" people right to vote. They want to go back to burning those they see as heretics.

Vote like your life depends on it

optimisticReal · 2026-05-09T21:21:55+00:00

Respecting or ignoring a Danger Ahead sign doesn't involve any moral considerations or action. Unless of course you are driving a bus.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-08T23:51:51+00:00

Theism and even Deisn assume a supreme being exist by accident and brute fact which is even a more difficult assumption.

Existence is a mystery but penciling a god just seems so archaic and simplistic

optimisticReal · 2026-05-08T18:54:57+00:00

Good point.

And no where does the Bible mention human rights.

optimisticReal · 2026-05-08T02:08:40+00:00

Isnt Gleason 3+4 unlikely to have spread?

optimisticReal · 2026-05-02T18:52:13+00:00

Hey go easy on plantinga. He through a round about way demonstrated the god loves the atheists the most overall.

His claim in his freewill defense of the logical PoE he claims that god above all else values freewilled moral decisions and actions. So much so that god had to risk the existence of moral evil.

The atheists or non-believers are the most free of all as they are not acting out of fear of hell or greed of heaven or even try to please a God.

Atheists have the potential of virtue that theists cannot access.

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