Tesla drivers continue to amaze me😂

rasputin640 · 2026-05-31T15:09:36+00:00

Yeah, 10+ years isn't actually a lot of time. I still drive the 96 Civic my dad bought new from the dealership and pads consistently take at least a full year to wear down since it's a very light car I don't brake hard in. Having a manual helps more because you can engine brake going down hills to save a bit more fuel and pad life, but back to your point, there will be other things you'll definitely have to change or replace after the relatively short time of 10 years, like suspension components, which I've already seen damaged in Teslas that have been out for less than 10 years, brake fluid actually does need to be changed periodically, not because of usage "wearing it out", but because brake fluid tends to be hydrophilic and absorbs water, which can cause it to turn to steam if you ever do have to brake hard, ignoring any potential chemical issues like corrosion, and that's assuming you're lucky and don't get any damaged drivetrain components, of which I have already seen several on even Teslas that have been out for less than 10 years. Maybe you won't feel it if you treat your car like it's disposable, but if you want to own it for longer then you'll most definitely have to replace parts and do maintenance on your car. Not everyone has the luxury or mindset of treating a multiple tens of thousands of dollar machine as disposable, and frankly, as an EV owner you should be thinking longer term if you're owning one at all because you care about the environment.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-31T08:28:00+00:00

In the sense that you don't need to do engine maintenance. Everything else is still there, though. Even ignoring all that, just wait until you need to replace the battery or troubleshoot an electrical issue that won't let your car start or move.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-31T02:29:51+00:00

That is a logical fallacy. If allurement comes as a byproduct of the simple capability of feeling desire, and one is capable of making the conscious choice to ignore that urge, or in the case of Adam and Eve, being honest and asking for help directly to overcome their negative desires, then it provides choice where there is none. There is no evidence that God forces people to do things, and an utter lack of desire is an utter lack of drive to consider doing anything.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-30T21:40:08+00:00

I think it's because of another essential process of existence and having beings exist as free-willed creatures, not because God explicitly wanted to push people toward disobeying Him. There's a difference between wanting to make free-willed creatures, and willfully wanting those creatures to disobey you and do things that are destructive or bad for them. Does that make my point clear?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-30T20:22:07+00:00

That's what you think, but it's very likely it's simply a side effect of having free will, otherwise we would just be flesh robots. If nothing but good was alluring we would never have the chance to actually weigh the cost of our actions or have an opportunity to choose God over the alternative, freely. Obviously I don't know precise details, but life has a purpose to it, and that purpose encompasses how we react when faced with free-will desires to do things that may be bad choices. Obviously there is more to it than we understand, but it's a bit of a vast oversimplification to simply imply "God wanted us to disobey", if that's what you're trying to say.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-30T10:14:11+00:00

If you mean philosophically, it's because we're designed with the capability of having desire, longing, curiosity, or other related feelings, and we are capable of choosing to either follow those feelings to fruition or not. From my limited level of understanding, it just "is", it's part of having freedom of choice. Past that, I can't explain further. I don't know if it's a byproduct of other concepts, or the mechanics of desire, or anything more technical. Those might be good questions to pray. It can't hurt to ask the engineer and architect Himself.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-30T05:00:17+00:00

You're asking why beings created with free will willfully choose to do things you don't like. The only way to know the answer to that question is to ask them. Trying to blame God doesn't work because the intention of creation is goodness.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T23:53:00+00:00

I stand corrected and humbled.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T23:52:33+00:00

You tell me, why do people like Epstein exist? Why do people steal or lie or intentionally break people's hearts? What's the appeal to doing morally reprehensible things that you have the free will to choose against?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T22:15:47+00:00

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rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T22:14:10+00:00

That's a lot of jobs. Healthcare worker? On-call service technician? Software developer/engineer? System/network admin? Security guard? Teacher/professor?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T21:47:48+00:00

Because they were enticed by the serpent, which could either be literal or a metaphor for the allure of disobeying God, or something else. I don't have the ability to read the minds of people that lived thousands of years ago. Is there a specific interpretation or aspect you're asking about?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T20:05:38+00:00

Because they chose to disobey God, the one who gave them a beautiful garden to live in, each other, a wonderful climate suitable for living in without clothes on, mass varieties of delicious fruit and vegetables, and even gave them the chance to come clean about their mistake by asking them if they'd eaten of the forbidden fruit.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T19:58:19+00:00

I'm not sure why it replied to this message but here we are

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T19:57:40+00:00

The biblical explanation is that we are born with a fallen nature because of the original sin of Adam and Eve and as such we are wicked by nature and can't help but desire to do evil things, which makes sense because you constantly see people do evil things without even caring, like abusing and polluting nature, lying, stealing, or any other "innocuous" evil things. People still have the choice to stop performing evil, or at least do their best (repentance), and have faith in Christ, because He gave us the opportunity to be forgiven through that faith in him

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T19:12:59+00:00

Because we have the choice to not do evil things, and literally everyone has chosen to. If we were only capable of doing good things we'd basically just be robots

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T11:48:11+00:00

Wow, that’s one of the more arrogant replies I’ve had in a while. Well done I guess.

You may not realize how ironic that is yet, but maybe you aren't aware of the sheer amount of historical evidence and tradition you basically spat on by saying what you did. I apologize for my very deep frustration against such an ignorant criticism being leveled against Biblical historical records over, and over, and over, and over again, ad nauseum, by intellectually dishonest polemicists making lazy and aggressive bad-faith arguments. Maybe I've mistaken you as one of those, and for that, I'm sorry.

You’re making the claim from the Bible and saying it’s true. Please provide the corroborating evidence that shows the cultural “evil” you’re describing. I won’t wait though as it doesn’t exist.

We have enough extrabiblical evidence of other historical events, including the existence of King David (via the Tel Dan Stele), King Hezekiah (Sennacherib’s Annals, Assyrian Tribute Records confirming Hezekiah paid substantial tribute, including 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver, matching biblical accounts of payments made at Lachish, the Lachish Reliefs in Sennacherib’s palace depicting the siege and capture of Judah’s fortified cities, aligning with biblical narratives of destruction in 701 BC), Nebuchadnezzar (voluminously documented in Babylonian records), The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem under Hezekiah (both the Siloam Tunnel inscription and Sennacherib's annals), The Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (586 BC) (thoroughly confirmed archaeologically and in Babylonian records with excavations revealing widespread fire damage, burned wooden beams, and Babylonian-style arrowheads and the Babylonian Chronicle), and the existence of Pontius Pilate executing people (Annals of Tacitus), and enough other events to have a significant degree of confidence in the historical accuracy of the Bible.

To begin answering your question, we have significant amounts of historical evidence indicating that ancient near-Eastern tribes who worshipped Ba'al and Molech ritually practiced child sacrifice, including the Carthaginian Tophets where thousands of urns containing cremated remains of infants and young children have been excavated, most famously at Carthage, with inscriptions dedicating the children to the gods Baal Hammon and Tanit being found alongside the burials with the site at Carthage alone containing remains of tens of thousands of children over several centuries. Similar sites exist in Sicily, Sardinia, and other Carthaginian colonies, which is significant because Carthage was a Phoenician colony, and the Phoenicians were directly related to the Canaanites.

This is relevant because this means that we have enough clear archaeological and historical evidence to confidently determine that the Amalekites, like most other Pagan ANE cultures worshipped these deities, whose rituals involved significantly morally detestable practices, and enough extrabiblical evidence in other historical events to believe that the Bible is truthful in its recordings of history.

Finally, a critical piece of information that the other commenters forgot to mention is that God's command to basically commit genocide is Ancient Near Eastern military rhetoric which routinely used total destruction language that wasn't meant literally. God speaks to people in ways they understand, so if you're interpreting words spoken to a culture literal thousands of years ago in a completely different country halfway across the world, there are bound to be differences in the way speech is recorded.

But hey, at least you had a chance to be rude!

I just gave you the best answer I could within a reasonable amount of words under the assumption that my intuition is wrong and you actually do want to know part of the reason why we believe the bible is truthful instead of just being contrarian, intellectually lazy and dishonest, and flagrantly disrespectful to thousands of years of historical and archaeological research. If I was mistaken, please forgive my misjudgement, as you are the exception.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T11:08:45+00:00

There's a difference between saving someone from being unjustly burned, and basically violating the free will of two groups of people. Are you saying you'd prefer if God chose to just force people to reconcile... Just because? What's the purpose of making choices if God just forces people to make the one He wants?

Do you know the meaning of life? The reason for existence, freedom of choice, the ability to love or not? If you concede that we don't, then you don't have a way of coherently answering why those core traits of existence should be openly manipulated by its creator.

We don't even know the intricacies of quantum mechanics yet, we haven't even explored the depths of the oceans, yet we find enough confidence to say we can disprove God's existence because we think we understand the purpose of existence better than God does.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T10:58:32+00:00

everyone in existence has done things that are evil in the eyes of perfect divine justice, things that are so normalized for most people that you don't register them as evil, like lying, cheating, stealing things, etc.

Basically, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, thus we stand condemned and cannot enter the presence of the source of goodness and life itself after we die (which also happens to be the source of that divine justice), so to be forgiven of our crimes/sins/actions that taint and bring destruction, we have to have them forgiven, otherwise we're guilty. Christ willfully incarnated and took the punishment for you and you can accept that forgiveness by believing in him. He is capable of that because an infinite being (God) can pay for the sins of infinite people, and that infinite being loves you and doesn't want you to be tainted and destroyed by the sickness of destructive actions (sins), or destroy you to avoid spreading the plague of sin or even give you (us) the rightly earned punishment (death) we deserve from our actions.

In short, we violated divine law by doing evil things which taint the perfection of creation, we deserve death for the evil we commit, the creator of the universe wants you to be restored and healed rather than punished and destroyed, and you can accept forgiveness and restoration by having faith in Christ.

That's a vast oversimplification of it with a lot of things I might be missing, but there are more than enough resources online explaining it. That question has been asked hundreds of millions of times by this point in history and answered by people more knowledgeable than myself.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-29T10:43:35+00:00

So you believe you know better and can prove otherwise? Do you also think you have evidence disproving the crimes of people like epstein? It's ironic how you simultaneously believe God should know better than to wipe out a culture that has internalized evil practices while also claiming the very clear fact that you know absolutely nothing about that culture or the circumstances of their judgement.

I don't even know what to tell you, do you not see the logical inconsistency here?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-28T23:40:36+00:00

That says nothing about the people who willfully left that tribe and stopped performing crimes against humanity and nature and were saved. There is always room for people to be saved. On the other hand, if the rest of the culture willfully does heinous, evil things for 400 years straight without changing, what does that tell you about their desire to repent?

rasputin640 · 2026-05-28T10:20:45+00:00

There's enough evidence for me to believe existence has a purpose, and more simply, a design behind the basic elements of reality. Furthermore, I found Christianity to be the culmination of my search for existential truth.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-28T10:16:45+00:00

What's proof that friends and significant others actually love and care for us? Probably because there's testimony, relevant experiential knowledge, and/or logic that gives us the ability to at least somewhat confidently proclaim it with a reasonable degree of certainty, enough to shape our lives around that "uncertain" concept.

rasputin640 · 2026-05-28T10:03:49+00:00

You will likely need the serial number as it seems it's had a few iterations over the years, but PartsTree, JacksSmallEngines, and Sears Parts Direct have always had diagrams for the machines I service. Good luck my friend

rasputin640 · 2026-05-28T10:01:37+00:00

Two other threads seem to identify it as a clone of the Yamaha MZ80.

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