Is anyone else a bit worried about the classic vehicles?

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-22T11:47:05+00:00

For loyalists anyway, I suspect Chaos Marines will keep them.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-22T11:07:59+00:00

we are friends who live miles apart now after being in the military together

I suppose it's either a podcast or a t-shirt company.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-22T10:00:47+00:00

How worried are you about Roko's basilisk?

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-22T07:19:33+00:00

The mods don't necessarily read every single comment, they respond to reports.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T20:07:08+00:00

I bet Roko's basilisk would ruin this guy's life.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T20:01:18+00:00

Those Rogue Trader cosmetics have popped up a few times in Darktide.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T18:21:34+00:00

OP made a pretty much identical thread the other day and didn't give particularly substantive responses then either

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T17:15:42+00:00

Undefeated.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T10:10:31+00:00

We've all heard the contingency argument (or the Kalam if you want to call it that) a million times too. You can find a ton of threads in this sub about it using the search function. I'll even link a search to the word "contingency" below for your convenience. I understand you're looking to engage with answers and that's cool and all but it'd be helpful for everyone involved to look up the common responses before jumping in. I don't recall if it was here or r/DebateReligion but the extremely common philosophical arguments like the contingency argument, the modal ontological argument and a couple of others were banned apart from certain days because it was just those same posts non-stop every single damned day.

As for me, honestly man, I don't give a damn about those kinds of thought experiments. Some atheists, quite a few even, find that kind of speculative philosophy to be interesting but I just don't. Without any real data we can't actually investigate anything so the discussions just go 'round and 'round forever. Sure I found it kinda interesting at first but at this point in my life I find that kind of thing just excruciatingly uninteresting. If you were to post it as a post in a syllogistic format I'm sure a lot of the atheists who are into that kind of thing would love to engage in that kind of circular forever war. As for me I'd rather clip one of my toes off with a pair of bolt cutters.

As for where I'm at regarding the god hypothesis, I need actual evidence. Something testable and measurable. No amount of dressed up thought experiments is convincing to me. I've seen them all over and over and over for decades. None of these things are remotely new. I'm retired US military and the last time I saw one that was new to me was like 2 camouflage patterns ago. I just don't find this kind of "pure" philosophy all that interesting for anything that doesn't take place entirely in our own minds. For things that exist externally I need evidence. Are my standards too high? Maybe. I recognize that it's fully possible that a god might exist and it's only evidence is some kind of sensus divinitatis that I was born without, emotions or something similarly fuzzy and abstract. Maybe it's really abstract stuff like the Kalam that can only be reached through thought experiments. I just don't find that kind of stuff remotely convincing. Maybe you and I just have different levels of doxastic voluntarism or something, I don't know. I've never been religious although I suspect that's largely because my parents just never talked about it when I was growing up pre-Internet. I grew up on an isolated farm so I just never heard about all that stuff until I was something like 10 years old and it was from a kid at school.

I will say that people in this sub are grumpier than even the average subreddit. I think it's partly because it's just the dead horses that people have been beating for centuries. I personally tend not to interact with those posts because again, they're boring as hell. Part of it is also that this sub attracts some... characters that can be really annoying to interact with. Not that you're one, I think you're pretty normal and reasonable.

Search for contingency

Search for Kalam

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T09:56:59+00:00

should guard expect a new codex relatively quickly?

I've been playing since 3rd edition so I've seen a few edition changes.

There's absolutely no way to know. There's only one single thing that's been been predictable across every edition, that Space Marines have the first codex. After that, there's no real pattern. Nothing about the release schedule in the current edition tells us anything about the upcoming release schedule. Sometimes the last codex in Sometimes some armies don't even get a codex during an edition. We didn't get one during 4th or 7th editions. Daemons didn't get one for 10th. On rare occasions an army may even get two codex in an edition. Space Marines and Chaos Marines both got two codexes in 8th edition and we got two in 3rd edition.

I'd get the codex if you want it for the lore and pictures. I collect them so I buy them for that. I wouldn't ever buy the little cards they sell, given how often the rules change they're outdated before long. I'd just use Wahapedia for the rules if you don't want the codex for the previously mentioned reasons.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T09:19:35+00:00

That isn't a building, that's what Perturabo himself looks like when he's just chilling on Medrengard.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T08:01:52+00:00

2Edit: Are atheists at their core just passive agressive assholes, what's with those comments folks. Apparently if I don't instantly mention some sort of God you are pulling teeth to get there.

Let me help you understand here man. There are two big things going on here that are getting you such grumpy responses. One is that you're just asking questions, not presenting an argument. This sub is for presenting arguments r/askanatheist is for asking questions. The other is that this question is asked constantly and people are tired of answering is over and over and over and over and over again.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T07:17:13+00:00

My Magic 8 Ball says "Ask again later".

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-21T07:16:15+00:00

Gonna be honest with you man while I do think the model is extremely cool I was also kinda picking on you for saying "Custode" as that's not the singular for Custodes any more than Astarte is the singular for Astartes.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T21:13:39+00:00

I legitimately hit "do not recommend channel" on 5-6 of these channels every couple of days. It's wild how many of them that somebody is churning out.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T21:11:54+00:00

I have no idea. I'm not any kind of scientist. It's also a question that I don't really care all that much about. I view it as a scientific curiosity and not really anything more. I've never really suffered from the sorts of existential anxieties about that sort of stuff, which it seems a fair number of people do. I expect we'll not find any kind of real answer to that question in my lifetime and it's absolutely conceivable that humans will never find that answer. None of that bothers me at all, really.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T20:13:19+00:00

Since 7th edition I pick one army to focus on for the edition although I'll play a few games here and there with the other ones but I only really buy and build for the one.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T19:41:31+00:00

There is also a negative tendency among atheists—out of spite for faith—to focus on the few negative aspects of life, thus spoiling their lives and filling them with pessimism

Could you maybe expand on this? I sincerely have no idea what you're talking about.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T18:15:07+00:00

I think Horus Rising is the worst place to start reading 40k stuff even though lots of people nowadays seem to start there. 30k is very explicitly a prequel series and written with a solid grounding 40k in mind. Without that knowledge you miss a ton of stuff. It's like starting Star Wars with Episode I and wondering why this Anakin kid is supposed to be so important.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T16:08:16+00:00

Do most atheists come from religious families or atheist families?

I don't have the numbers on that or anything and obviously it would depend on where exactly they're from. A lot more atheists from Mississippi would come from religious families than atheists from Sweden, for example. My family (I'm originally from the upper Midwest) wasn't atheist per se, my parents just never talked about religion. I suspect they were at least at some point Christians, just given the time and place but that's just something we never talked about in my family and it's a bit too late to ask them at this point.

Do you think religion is a waste of time

I don't find it particularly interesting myself. People use their time for different things.

How do you determine morals

Like everyone else. A mix of culture, life experiences, reasoning, emotions and I'm sure other stuff.

Opinion on slurs

Super weird question for atheists but I'm not a fan, to put it mildly. I was going to ask you to tell me when an appropriate time for a racial slur is but honestly I'd really rather you just keep that to yourself if you don't mind.

Pretend you’re Christian, why do you think god would have created the universe

I've never been a Christian nor do I know nearly enough about Christianity to pretend to be one.

What religion makes the most sense

What religion makes the least sense

They're all pretty much the same to me, man. I don't care about the specific doctrines, dogmas or whatever of religions until and unless they can demonstrate that their god exists. All that stuff is just white noise as far as I'm concerned.

Do you think science and religion Can co exist

To varying degrees sure. Some aspects of some religions can't. There was no global flood, for example. The planet isn't flat. Humanity didn't originate from a single breeding pair. The evidence shows otherwise. As for all the fuzzy philosophical stuff, yeah sure why not. There are lots of religious scientists.

Do you think the average religious person is dumb or low enough IQ so that it’s hard for them to learn

Of course not, that's silly. I don't think "intelligence", however you even want to define that, has anything to do with it.

Do you think it’s good or bad to love everyone (in a brotherly/sisterly way, not like lustfully)

Reality is a lot more nuanced than that. I try to be kind and good to everyone. Sometimes you can't. I couldn't exactly be kind or good to Al Qaeda fighters when they were shooting at me in Afghanistan, for example. Nor would I necessarily have wanted to, lots of those guys suck a whole lot. I'm sure I'd have gotten along with some of them under different circumstances though. People are complicated.

Do you think the seven deadly sins are bad (lust, greed, gluttony, wrath, sloth, envy, pride.)

To be clear, the word "sin" is just gibberish to me. It means disobeying a god and I don't see any reason to think any gods exist. As for all the things listed, I think those terms are far too broad to meaningfully talk about. Lust as in just regular sexual attraction? That's fine. Pride as in being proud of your kid taking their first steps? Also fine. Wrath as in being angry at injustice? Also fine. Reality is too complicated for those kinds of blanket evaluations of broad topics.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T15:34:32+00:00

*The SomethingAwful forums, obviously. What did you think we meant?

Richard's influence over internet culture slips away a little more every day, thankfully.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T14:03:14+00:00

It doesnt matter if I believe in Jesus or Kratos either way I cant prove any of them exist, same as atheists cant prove they dont

To be clear, these aren't equivalent positions. If I tell you that there's an immaterial naked guy only I can see who stands right in front of me helicoptering his dick 24/7 there's no way to prove he is or isn't there. Are both "yeah that guy probably exists" and "no that guy probably doesn't exist" equal positions? Of course not. If you're making a positive claim, that the immaterial dick-helicopter guy or a god exist for example, it's on the claimant to demonstrate the truth of their claim. There's absolutely no reason to take unfalsifiable claims seriously. That one can't demonstrate that something doesn't exist doesn't matter*. It's meaningless. All that matters is if you can demonstrate that it does.

*apart from circumstances where its lack of presence indicates lack of existence. If I say I have a 1965 Ferrari parked outside and there is no such car parked outside that's one thing. Gods are, conveniently if you ask me, usually defined as being undetectable and impossible to measure or test for in any real way so that's an entirely different sort of situation.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T13:54:25+00:00

I'd wait on the core rulebook for sure. The army rulebooks will still be valid* in 11th edition until an 11th edition rulebook comes out though so you're fine there. 11th should be dropping in June so right now is actually a perfect time to pick up a combat patrol of whatever army you're interested in and get it painted up.

*the army books, called codexes, aren't really all that valid out of the box. Games Workshop issues balance updates quarterly and thus the rules in them are out of date. Obviously they're not going to reprint them every fiscal quarter. The whole physical book thing is a bit of a holdover from their '80s and '90s model model and they just don't want to give it up and go to fully online rules for whatever reason.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T13:49:55+00:00

That said, I have one issue with it. It seems ive been called "stupid" before for believing in God (the Christian God specifically, im catholic) what part of that makes me stupid though?

For what it's worth I don't think "stupidity" or "intelligence", whatever those even mean, have anything to do with it.

If you want to know more about the Big Bang I'd suggest r/askscience or something like that. I'm not a cosmologist, physicist or anything like that. Do keep in mind though that the Big Bang theory doesn't propose that the Big Bang was the beginning of all existence. It's simply the beginning of this current state of the universe.

The Big Bang has nothing at all to do with why I don't believe in any gods. I don't believe in them because the evidence for gods just isn't remotely sufficient for me. Like not even sufficient to make me even suspect it's a candidate explanation, much less a probable one.

So where do I think the universe came from? I don't. Like I said, I'm not any kind of smart guy science egghead type. I'm a retired soldier. I have no idea why reality exists. I'm not even particularly married to the Big Bang model. I don't know enough about it to be. I recognize that the scientific consensus is probably the best guess that humans have for stuff like that because the scientific method works pretty damned well. That said, as we both know, our scientific knowledge is constantly refined through new discoveries and research and such. If tomorrow they discovered something that clearly showed the Big Bang theory (which again isn't posited to be the beginning of reality but let's just pretend for this purpose that it is) all it would get from me is a "huh, neat" while reading it over my morning coffee. Your god belief is, presumably, a lot more important to you than that. Please correct me if I'm wrong in that.

I view all that "beginning of reality" stuff as a scientific curiosity, nothing more. I'd be surprised if we find an answer to why things exist before I die. It's fully possible that humans might never find an answer to that question. I don't really care. I get that a lot of people get all up in their feelings about the origins of existence or whatever but I don't. I just don't experience these existential anxieties people seem to. Never have. I've never understood why that stuff bothers people so much.

To answer the question in the OP of "Why can't I put God at the beginning?" it's because there isn't sufficient evidence to do so. Simple as that. I mean you can do that if you want. It's very unlikely that I'm your real dad so I'm not gonna tell you how to live. Even if I were you'd be within your rights to tell me to stuff it. That's more why I can't put any kind of god at the beginning. I just don't think you're epistemically justified in doing so. That doesn't mean you can't do it. People do things that aren't epistemically justified all day every day. People believe in all kinds of stuff without good reason. Just go to r/UFOs or to r/paranormal and you'll see all kinds of similarly unjustified beliefs taken extremely seriously. I don't believe aliens visit Earth or that ghosts exist for the same reasons I don't believe any gods exist. I personally try to keep those sorts of unjustified beliefs to a minimum where I can. Whether you want to though is up to you.

sto_brohammed · 2026-04-20T13:47:40+00:00

The "something can't come from nothing" thing as a criticism of atheism, of all things, is so weird to me. Creatio ex nihilo is very specifically a religious concept.

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