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Hope they all go to hell.

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I'm a Christian.

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I think you missed a teaching or two along the way

Do you really need an answer to that question? The extent to which we understand anything about the nature of the universe (and about our place in it) has remained unchanged for the last 2000 years, in your opinion?

I get that you like to reflexively disagree around here, but this one is pretty over the top.



But fine, I’ll bite. Here’s just a few…
Calculus
Statistical inference
Microscopes
Telescopes
Spectroscopes
Atomic theory
Natural selection/evolution
Cognitive science
The internet
Radiometric dating
Newtonian mechanics
Electromagnetism
Thermodynamics
Relativity
Quantum mechanics
Cybernetics
Experimental design
Precision metrology
Chaos theory
Game Theory
Nonlinear dynamics
Machine learning
Cryptography
Signal processing
Biochemistry
Immunology
Simulation modeling
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on


It is self evident that our understanding of our place in the universe has advanced drastically over the last 2000 years. Arguing against that is just arguing for arguing’s sake.

Not even a little bit.



If God is our father, then we are the functional equivalent of a two year old child (and that’s probably being generous to us). The gap in knowledge between an human parent and their two year old child is certainly orders of magnitude smaller than the gap in knowledge of that human parent and the creator of the collective sum of all space and time. So using the analogy of a two year old is already giving us too much credit to begin with… but let’s roll with it…

We all understand that no parent in human history has ever been capable of explaining the full depth and complexity of the world they live in to their two year old. Not even close. So I don’t see why God our father would operate on any different restriction. He might be perfect, but we certainly are not. And so many of the things he wants to tell us, we simply are not yet developed enough to understand.

So if we are going to accept that we’re two years old now, then when God revealed himself through Jesus, we were maybe one. Maybe. And at that point, our infant brains were only prepared to understand so much about the nature of reality.

Now, as we are slowly growing up, we’re capable of understanding ever so slightly more about the nature of the universe than we were 2000 years ago (a parent can clearly communicate more complex things to a two year old than they can to a one year old).

Awareness of aliens would fit seamlessly into that pattern of growth.

There’s directional truth to the assertion. It’s probably overstated in magnitude, but I suspect y’all recognize that the pushback itself has been an over correction here.

Don’t get me wrong, Disney has made a lot of shite and deserves their crow for doing it… but also, because they have made so much shite, the culture here is to assume that everything new they put out will be shite. And if something isn’t shite, it’s going to be very difficult for this board to set aside their priors and give it its full due.

If Disney were to deliver a truly A-tier, top notch, best in class type of film, at least a sizable subset of this board would settle on the “it was pretty good… certainly better than I expected… but still overrated… not up to the standard of the old classics” type of narrative. That would be to subconsciously justify the initial skepticism/doubt that would have unequivocally flowed freely prior to its release.




And for the record, that’s not necessarily meant to be a critique of this board, because that’s not just a movie talk problem… that’s a modernity problem. Something comparable seems to happen across basically every strata of social media discourse. People set their expectations prior to the delivery of a new thing… then after the thing comes out, people work backwards to craft a narrative to justify the quality of that thing being as close as possible to their preheld narrative.

We’re all guilty of it.

Who do you think you’re responding to? What image of me do you hold in your head?

Nowhere I am trying to destroy Lutnick. That’s not anywhere near my goal. I even stated directly…

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So if you’re willing to just straight up say that you don’t care, I get it. Our system has broken badly enough that that response would make sense.

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I simply countered the response of a poster who implied that Lutnick didn’t lie about his relationship with Epstein with the unequivocal truth that he did. Then I noted that our entire political process has deteriorated so severely, that I could understand looking the other way. But I supplemented that note with a bit of wishful thinking that our politics was not so severely deteriorated.

If you read that response as trying to “destroy the guy”, then the political mind virus might have a stronger hold of you than you realize. Step back, chill out, and stop looking for enemies in every interaction.

Nope, I said exactly what I meant… and I stand by that assertion

Yes. Lutnick said point blank, “he met Epstein once and was so disgusted with the guy that he was made sure he never in the same room as Epstein again”.

That was a blatant lie, as Lutnick was palling it up with Epstein for years thereafter.



Now, has political partisanism gotten so bad that we just don’t care when our side lies anymore? Maybe. Maybe that’s the lesser of evils. So if you’re willing to just straight up say that you don’t care, I get it. Our system has broken badly enough that that response would make sense.

But those saying he didn’t lie or didn’t do anything sketchy are just simply fooling themselves. If Lutnick wasn’t a politician, everyone would recognize him as a genuinely sleazy guy. But since he’s a politician, he’s pretty standard for that group of people. So folks find it easy to just shrug it off.

It’s a disappointing reflection on the state of our leadership class.

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20 million

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You keep changing the goal posts to try to trick people into agreeing with you. It isn’t going to work.


And the reason it isn’t going to work is simple. The betrayal is not just the act of competing under another country’s flag alone. The betrayal is competing under another country’s flag, while shite-talking the US, while staying silent on the other country’s far far FAR worse human rights abuses.

People aren’t mad at Gu simply for not competing for the US. They are mad because she epitomizes the modern left in all the worst ways: born on third base and gifted with immense advantages, yet intent on amplifying every imperfection in our country, while simultaneously being perfectly willing to hypocritically remain silent on the evils of those doing far worse things than us.

Doing all of that, while ALSO choosing to compete for the far more evil country over competing for her home country that gave her all of those immense advantages, is why people are mad at her.

Definitely doesn’t sound like a larp post. I’m certain that really happened

Modernity has broken this forum

A prerequisite for getting people to call their representative is making them aware of the issue. This thread contributes to that awareness.


It’s not bitching, it’s a call to wake the frick up and to do exactly what you condescendingly recommended.