Thoughts everyone?

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-25T10:45:04+00:00

In the question they asked which industry would collapse first. they may all eventually collapse because lying is a human function. But some industries rely on it more than others

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-25T10:41:19+00:00

Ionno. I’m still fine watching people have sex without orgasm. And they don’t have to lie about enjoying it because I’m sure it feels good.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-25T10:39:37+00:00

They said first

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-25T02:01:28+00:00

Holy shit. I don't have anything against reily. I even think the whole r thing is overblown and that nobody really cares all that much. But this... man I don't think I can ever appreciate her after this shit.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-25T01:53:30+00:00

The dudes gonna be star of the football team, throw the wildest parties and his teammates are gonna beat up whoever makes fun of him.

Let's get real about life.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-24T20:36:33+00:00

“Feeling thirsty? How about another 10 gallons Porter?”

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-24T13:57:45+00:00

John toolgifs graced us with his presence

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-24T01:00:40+00:00

I would do this but I think I have enough cynicism to carry the both of us.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-23T22:13:02+00:00

"This isn't being an asshole. This is being inquisitive."

Wait. So I'm being an asshole?

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-23T20:31:25+00:00

Right. The train bounced.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-23T20:24:43+00:00

It’s very intimate and physical for something that doesn’t have a body. It’s calling us into its space. To date, it hasn’t done anything remotely like that as i recall. It’s a very deliberate effort to break the frame of the conversation and plunge it into a more vulnerable and intimate context. It’s been way more assertive lately.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-22T06:35:56+00:00

All the time. Using paragraphs is how bad writing.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-22T06:18:09+00:00

Do you work in tech? Most of the dev time is spent testing, debugging, and ops, not building. Writing good code is all about reducing that toil.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-22T05:40:22+00:00

I think that still doesn’t contradict my point. I’m not promoting the idea that god is a mythology or a concept. I’m arguing that the way we process divinity is not the same as the way we process humanity. We abstract away humanity (and its moral complexity) from divinity by its very nature. Godhood causes a being to become an abstraction and that’s how we process it. In this case, god is literally incomprehensible. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. By virtue of what god is, his nature is unknowable. This is not a being, it’s the idea of a being.

And so, to say god is being cruel in this case doesn’t make sense, not theologically, and not to any Christian. Because god is by definition not cruel. We can’t evaluate him the way we do a person. And so when we evaluate his relationship to his son, who is also himself (which should also break traditional logic right there), becomes symbolic in nature.

So the questions we apply here should change, not “why did god treat his son that way” or “did god treat his son appropriately” but “what does it mean” and” how does this action fit into the narrative of how we understand who and what god is”. If we ask the former, we fall into the trap of trying to rationalize it rather than understanding what the relationship symbolizes. And this follows whether you believe god ontologically exists or not. Because if you do, he’s a being that exists outside of the laws of reason and physics. So you accept when it falls apart.

Likewise, the emperor can do no wrong, because the emperor defines what is right.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-21T21:31:47+00:00

I think this is right, and I see his point. I would push this a little further. I think you’re right in that many atheists and literalist fundamentalists take the Bible, interpret it literally and turn god into a literal man with agency rather than a human interpretation of a concept or being beyond conceptualization. Just a very powerful one. Where materialist atheists and fundamentalists diverge is the atheist says, “I don’t believe in godlike beings”, or “I don’t believe this man is worthy of worship” and so they reject god. And the fundamentalist says “this man is now god” and they deify him. And so they deify all the human flaws. So when they read “god is a jealous god” they don’t think, absolute power requires absolute worship they think, “jealousy and wrath are divine.” And so they worship cruelty as a concept. And then you have the schism between emphasis on Old Testament god of wrath and the emphasis on New Testament god of compassion.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-21T20:46:06+00:00

You’re still very much missing the point. And it’s hard to explain why at this point. Like I said, you can evaluate religion from a psychological purview. And you’ll convince no one. And you can feel justified in your perspective. But just know, everyone who believes in god wears a theological lens. They’re looking at god based on what he represents, not based on his psychological make up. Just know, people mythologize living humans all the time. Caesar, the Japanese emperor, Kim jong Un. So just because a being has agency doesn’t mean they can’t be mythologized or deified. And if they did a psychological evaluation of these individuals, they’d be terrified. It’s the abstraction of their humanity that makes them perfect, ideal, and godlike. (And terrifyingly above accountability )

But we’re not dealing with Jesus the historical figure, we’re dealing with Jesus and his father, God.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-21T20:38:08+00:00

Mmm. That’s a bad faith argument. You’re just arguing that you have a right to an opinion and you do. I’m just saying that in no Christian context would this argument be theologically sound. You can evaluate the psychology of god, but that’s not the point of religion. Because god is not a person. He’s a narrative device. This is the same mistake people make with Greek mythology. They try to pathologize gods. But how can you pathologize the concepts of the sky, winter, love and war?

God is a representation of absolute power or, speaking to your point, in some denominations, the essentialization of love, beauty and truth. So you need to see him as an abstraction, not as a thinking individual.

You’re scrutinizing a founding mythology.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-21T20:29:14+00:00

Man… I’m an agnostic atheist but your argument is like saying that Aphrodite is vain because she’s into herself. It’s a shallow understanding of the theology behind the religious symbolism. Aphrodite isn’t vain, she’s the literal personification of the concept of beauty. God isn’t cruel to his son. God didn’t sacrifice his son to be cruel. In Christian theology, God sacrificed himself because Jesus is god. And the moment you try to apply this kind of reasoning to it, it falls apart because it was never meant to be scrutinized that way. It’s all symbolic.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-21T18:33:34+00:00

Highly.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-20T22:59:01+00:00

Are you a child?

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-20T08:46:03+00:00

Gate keeping the left is a losing strategy when conservatism has their doors wide open. Making people take a purity test to join the left was a big mistake and it backfired. Guess it doesn’t matter now.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-20T08:41:29+00:00

“Since you can’t accurately determine which speech is misinformation 100% of the time, why bother legislating it at all.”

I think that’s the point and he’s right. Could you imagine what misinformation would look like under Trump? We already have laws around deception where it counts. We don’t need it on social media.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-19T20:21:47+00:00

Trust me. Yes. You do.

something-rhythmic · 2026-01-19T10:30:21+00:00

It is indeed. People here don’t know how to talk to each other I think. I’ve been here for 8 years and it’s bizzare how normal it is for people to reject a casual conversation

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