"Doctor Angelicus, it seems to me that because God is good, his commandments to help us achieve the kingdom of heaven are not things that ultimately hurt us in this material world, but help us. I believe this is in accordance with what you call natural law, that God's law is not in disharmony with nature. We follow His commandments, and not only are we saved spiritually by the grace of God, but the material world we live in gets better for it. Of course, we live in a world after the fall, so in this imperfect world good things will still happen to bad people and bad things will happen to good people and it may not immediately be apparent that the commandments will help us, but that's what patience and humility are for. Because the material world becomes so much better, we become arrogant, thinking we achieved all this on our own without God, and so cast aside His commandments. Like Adam, we leave the garden of Eden as we are doomed to do whenever we choose to allow our Hubris to grow too strong. This would be a tragedy like Sisyphus but for two things: First, God's grace to give us entry to the kingdom of heaven. Second, we do fall, but because we have been saved through Christ, we are not like Adam -- we grow and are a little stronger, so when we once again find His commandments and follow them again, we aren't starting just outside Adam's Eden, but near the gates of our own metaphorical Eden, a new high point for humanity on Earth. To be clear, we need not fall to grow, and we do not need to choose pride and can instead choose humility so we do not fall. However, when we do fall, when we do allow ourselves to be taken over by pride we do not fall all the way, reflecting God's grace reflected in our natural state."
(I'm just a fool playing with ideas in the form of a dialogue, so don't take this as anything but that)
(I'm just a fool playing with ideas in the form of a dialogue, so don't take this as anything but that)
The whole planet has been bathing in this poison too long.
I'm hoping change is finally in the air, not just for us but for everyone living under the haze.
I'm hoping change is finally in the air, not just for us but for everyone living under the haze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcWkzTT_DUY
Shit, turns out this was a Destiny biography in rap form the whole time.
Shit, turns out this was a Destiny biography in rap form the whole time.
Imagine that there's all kinds of people out there who think the fediverse is just mastodon and the creepy far left cheese pizza enthusiasts, when we have compelling art that blows that narrative away. (Oh god, bring some towels....)
A while back I realized that this time next year Canada could have cheap gas and plastic straws.... And that makes me Maple MAGA for sure.
That video of him talking like your sketchy brother begging for money was pretty memorable. "We will make it loan! We pay you back in full!"
Australia is inexorably heading toward an existential crisis if it embarks upon the revision of syntactic configurations and the deliberate selection of lexemes, driven by the escalating lexicographical incompetence endemic within the broader populace, whose functional illiteracy now appears to be a pervasive epistemological impediment to even rudimentary textual engagement.
Considering that Canadian banks are as unsustainable as any business on planet Earth, it makes sense for them to also be promoting other unsustainable policies.
"Oh, you're such a big strong man, Mr. FEMA executive! Please tell me more about how you ignored counties that voted Red in 2020!"
Semantics is the study of meaning in language, symbols, or signs.
So if one were Anti-Semantic, one would reject meaning, including the meaning of (((brackets)))
It's just a dumb play on words.
So if one were Anti-Semantic, one would reject meaning, including the meaning of (((brackets)))
It's just a dumb play on words.
If you're "Anti-Semantic", that would mean.... putting words in (((brackets like this))) would be meaningless because you don't care when stuff adds meaning like that... Ironic, isn't it?
Most of my money has been spent on GOG in the past few years because most of the games worth looking at were made over 15 years ago.
(Shame they went woke, but at least it's DRM-Free so I can keep all my games locally)
(Shame they went woke, but at least it's DRM-Free so I can keep all my games locally)
People whose entire lives rely on fossil fuels who don't contribute anything to the material wealth of a society telling everyone else it's time to "get real".
Like many moronic short-sighted ideas by people who aren't as smart as they think they are, it'll lead to mass death. I call these people "genocide advocates" because if they get their way, a billion people almost immediately die.
The same sort of arrogant people actually got power in the Soviet Union and Maos China and the result was exactly as I said.
Ironically, the people calling for an end to an end to fossil fuels are literally bourgeoisie -- city people. They type on their keyboard made out of petrochemicals and look at their screens made of petrochemicals and sit in their chairs made our of petrochemicals in homes made of petrochemicals and write about how we need to end fossil fuels using electricity that even if it's produced with solar was in reality often made using fossil fuels because the devices were made in China, which burns more coal than every other country on earth combined.
Reality is that we can't rely on fossil fuels forever. Eventually there just aren't any more dead forests to burn and there's a real problem with things like climate. Thing is, it isn't a switch we can just magically flip. These people have no idea what the fundamental challenges of energy are. It's not something we magically do by 2030 because someone signed a paper. In fact, if they got what they wanted there'd be civil wars and decarbonization would become a dirty word for generations.
Like many moronic short-sighted ideas by people who aren't as smart as they think they are, it'll lead to mass death. I call these people "genocide advocates" because if they get their way, a billion people almost immediately die.
The same sort of arrogant people actually got power in the Soviet Union and Maos China and the result was exactly as I said.
Ironically, the people calling for an end to an end to fossil fuels are literally bourgeoisie -- city people. They type on their keyboard made out of petrochemicals and look at their screens made of petrochemicals and sit in their chairs made our of petrochemicals in homes made of petrochemicals and write about how we need to end fossil fuels using electricity that even if it's produced with solar was in reality often made using fossil fuels because the devices were made in China, which burns more coal than every other country on earth combined.
Reality is that we can't rely on fossil fuels forever. Eventually there just aren't any more dead forests to burn and there's a real problem with things like climate. Thing is, it isn't a switch we can just magically flip. These people have no idea what the fundamental challenges of energy are. It's not something we magically do by 2030 because someone signed a paper. In fact, if they got what they wanted there'd be civil wars and decarbonization would become a dirty word for generations.
They know about each other, but they're like pandas in captivity and refuse to fuck.
I've pointed out many times that Trump is to the left of Clinton by a substantial margin.
- He supported Gay marriage on day 1 of his presidency (the first president in history to do so). Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act which defined marriage as between a man and a woman
- He didn't cut welfare, Clinton did.
- He didn't try to balance a budget, Clinton did.
- Trump signed the "second chance act" to reduce felonies, Clinton signed the 1994 crime act that increased felonies
- Trump didn't start new wars, Clinton was fully engaged in the world police thing.
Trump previously ran as a Democrat, and he's still essentially a democrat from 20 years ago. People take mean tweets and extrapolate that and a red R next to his name into a bunch of stuff he isn't.
- He supported Gay marriage on day 1 of his presidency (the first president in history to do so). Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act which defined marriage as between a man and a woman
- He didn't cut welfare, Clinton did.
- He didn't try to balance a budget, Clinton did.
- Trump signed the "second chance act" to reduce felonies, Clinton signed the 1994 crime act that increased felonies
- Trump didn't start new wars, Clinton was fully engaged in the world police thing.
Trump previously ran as a Democrat, and he's still essentially a democrat from 20 years ago. People take mean tweets and extrapolate that and a red R next to his name into a bunch of stuff he isn't.