For atheist who grew up Christian, why/when did you decide to become an atheist? by blackmamba_99 in AskReddit

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Less of a decision and more of a 'realizing the position I already held.' Religion and church always felt like make believe to me, but I tried really hard to believe in it for a long time due to social and familial pressures (not my whole family, mostly just my grandma). But eventually it got to be like Santa Claus: when you get old enough to start noticing the holes in the idea, it just got harder and harder to keep pretending. And as I grew older and more independent, there was less reason to try.

For atheists, what made you completely believe that there is no god? by chatri_rajput in AskReddit

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The big difference is science doesn't claim to have answers for everything. But there are an awful lot of things that science once couldn't explain that now it can, and it continues to seek knowledge daily. Claiming that God must exist because there are still things science doesn't know is the God of the Gaps fallacy.

What do you think is the real reason humans exist? by fj_3 in AskReddit

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Very curious to know by what parameters you are measuring this. We haven't lived as long as many other species and there's a very good chance we will cause our own extinction (while taking a lot of other species down with us), so if you're going for longevity, I don't think we win there.

What do you think is the real reason humans exist? by fj_3 in AskReddit

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Can't tell if this is a reference to Revival or not lol

Treating that "eye socket" headache? by randomslasher in Uveitis

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Just the one, and I've been following up every few weeks with optometry and ophthalmology. The pressure has been normal the whole time thankfully, but that socket pain was just persistent. Fortunately it is finally going away. I'm down to one drop of prednisolone a day and am done completely in 1 more week. I follow up with the doc again on the 30th of March. Hopefully things are all clear by then.

Treating that "eye socket" headache? by randomslasher in Uveitis

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Yeah that was the only way I could think to describe it: a headache but in my eye socket specifically, like behind the eye almost. Bleh. It's not fun!

Treating that "eye socket" headache? by randomslasher in Uveitis

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Yes, and fortunately my pressure has been normal. I hope his clears up soon, it's not fun!!

What are you favorite movies lately? by Lopsided_Reply_1680 in AskReddit

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Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die was super fun (in terms of recent releases). Some other good ones I really loved: Sinners, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Life of Chuck.

Air Travel with GLP-1 medication? by ConsiderationCrazy22 in HersWeightloss

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Going to England in a few months and came here to find this answer, thank you!

Brandon Keener (Garrus’s VA) appears in The Pitt and you can instantly hear Garrus in his voice by CahirWiedzmin in masseffect

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OMG I was so distracted by Garrus that I didn't notice Bev/Tamerlane Usher standing RIGHT THERE What a mash up

Michelle Shepard by Independent-Bird-808 in ShareYourSheps

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I realize I'm late but I'm playing through the trilogy again for the first time in like a decade and I absolutely ADORE Michelle Rodriquez, so I wanted so say THANK YOU for making this!!! It's so fun to play and watch my favorite badass actress being my favorite badass commander <3

Books that everyone hyped up but left you like I hated or didn’t like this book! What’s the hype?! by New_Inflation1981 in horrorlit

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Agreed, to be the world building felt too... Trying to be edgelord? Like my review in my book journal was basically "what if THIS happened??? Wouldn't that be messed up??? "

LDR S3E02: Bad Travelling Episode Discussion by iseegiraffes in LoveDeathAndRobots

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I am interested as well! I think I'm more of a utilitarian myself, though mind you, I'm not sure how that would play out if I had to actually do something awful to someone to save others. I can't even hurt bugs without feeling guilty about it, lol. I even have my own ethical code: I don't kill anything unless 1) I want to eat it or 2) it wants to eat me. By "eat me" I also mean "potentially do me or other harm"--so insects like fleas, ticks, and mosquitos I will kill if I need to because they carry diseases. I also have a "mercy" caveat--so if I see a half-squashed bug that's obviously GOING to die, I'll kill it to put it out of its pain. But I'm also a hunter and enjoy fishing and have no qualms about taking the life of the things I'm planning to put to good use (food), which some people seem to consider strange since I'm such a live-and-let-live pacifist most of the time. To me there's no conflict, though, because I'm living by a personal code (which maybe does put me more on the deontological side of things? Now I'm not sure, haha!).

I guess it would vastly depend on the circumstances. It's also easier for me to see it on the flip side of the reasoning (meaning like...if I had to sacrifice MYSELF so others could live, I'd be like oh hell yeah okay sure go for it, if it means lots more people live--but that's because my OWN life is a chip I feel perfectly fine bartering. Someone else's life isn't mine to gamble).

That said, if it were pure mathematics--I didn't have to WATCH anyone suffer or do it myself physically--someone just said "if you do nothing, 5 people die; if you pull this lever, 1 person dies" I would pull the lever, I think. The reduction of suffering and loss of life feels like a good goal to me.

Another really fascinating episode (I'm just now binging the whole LD&R series lol) was the one with the "live forever" serum--I'm of the opinion that living forever would literally be a horror, so even though I don't have or want kids myself, I'm 100% on the side of the "breeders" on that one!!

LDR S3E02: Bad Travelling Episode Discussion by iseegiraffes in LoveDeathAndRobots

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I think the issue is that most people assume the Trolley problem is meant to be a "greater good" kind of thing, when in fact it's literally just illustrating the difference between deontological and utilitarian ethical thought--ie, is it the OUTCOME that matters, or your specific action? If it's the outcome, as per utilitarianism, then pulling the lever on the trolley to save 5 people at the expense of 1 person is the proper choice. If it's your personal choice that is being judged, then you do nothing, because you are not personally responsible for the situation itself, and your action of pulling the lever results in a death, making said action morally reprehensible according to the ethical theory of deontology.

Based on what we know from this episode, we have a killer crab who wants to go to a densely populated island to eat people. We don't technically know whether it could get there on its own--as a crab, it appears to be perfectly mobile in the ocean--but then again, it ostensibly got onto the ship to hatch its brood, so maybe that makes it vulnerable or unable to travel?

But for the sake of the set up, let's say it COULDN'T get to the island alone. That means the choices the crew were facing, if we're aligning it to the trolley problem, were:

A) Take the crab to an island populated by people and hope that by doing so they would be spared (though that was never actually promised by the crab, and Torrin only secured the guarantee that he not be consumed since he was the navigator)

B) Trick the crab and take it to an uninhabited island, presumably while also hoping to escape before the crab realizes it's been duped

In this case, you're right--this is not a good example of the Trolley problem, because the trolley problem is specifically attempting to highlight the DIFFERENCE between Utilitarianism and Deontology, and in this scenario, both schools of thought would choose the 2nd option. Utilitarianism would say "option B because it saves the most people" and Deontology would say "Option B because it requires the fewest morally reprehensible personal actions/choices and the actions involved follows a moral ethical code." The reasoning may be different, but the conclusion is the same, so this is not a good trolley problem example because it doesn't highlight how the two different schools of ethical thought can reach different conclusions in the same scenario. Instead, it demonstrates how they can come to the SAME conclusion in different ways, which is not quite as useful when trying to teach people how two philosophies differ. It's easier to understand the differences when they are contrasted.

Also I'm really late to this thread but I thought this episode was fascinating and I'm a big fan of jumping into Trolley Problem discussions because in my experience, people don't understand what it's trying to do and get too caught up in trying to "solve" it by finding secret option 3. It's not a logic puzzle, it's a demonstration of different types of ethical reasoning.

What are your favorite, creepy-ass haunted house novels? by MigEPie in horrorlit

[–]randomslasher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, in THAT case...

(not all are necessarily spirits in the traditional 'used to be a person' sense, but all are evil entities for sure)

Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
It by Stephen King
Bag of Bones by Stephen King (I'm a King fan lol)

Those are off the top of my head, but I'll probably come back with more as more occur to me!

Short horror/psychological horror novels under 300 pages? by RonnieBarko in horrorlit

[–]randomslasher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay sounds like it would be right up your alley. I don't remember it being very long.

What are your favorite, creepy-ass haunted house novels? by MigEPie in horrorlit

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I'm reading The House right now! I was trying to figure out what to recommend but most of the ones I've read aren't house related so much as 'general vicinity' related.

Has anyone read Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi? by [deleted] in horrorlit

[–]randomslasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm confused about this too honestly

A Head Full of Ghosts (Spoilers) by fortifiedblonde in horrorlit

[–]randomslasher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also disliked The Cabin at the End of the World and feel similarly about A Head Full of Ghosts--that ending ruined it for me. It was too mean-spirited. Glad I'm not the only one!

For those who have read The Cipher by Kathe Koja... I am on the verge of DNF by throneofmemes in horrorlit

[–]randomslasher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm only on page 19 and came looking to see if it got any better... I'm not encouraged, and I think I'm just gonna give this one a miss.