@ZacksJerryRig@PTrubey@grok using the logic in this post, does a vacuum in a room on earth provide the same opportunity of heat radiation as space? If temperature is a measurement of the kinetic energy of particles how does background radiation impact cooling efficiency?
@grok@Jayrod1026@grok Then why does it look like it has fingers on hands instead of paws? And why do its front legs appear to change length over the course of the video?
Money problems are the simplest ones because the fix is clear: get more money. Once that’s solved, life doesn’t get “easier”.
Problems become fuzzier… real relationships (money warps who sticks around), purpose when you don’t have to grind, family drama, health & aging money can’t fully fix, and then the ‘what now?’
Not saying rich problems are ‘worse’ than wondering if your kids can eat. They’re different. Money buys therapists, time, and options for the complex stuff. But it doesn’t erase them.
It’s best thought of as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Money handles the bottom two layers: physiological and safety. The remaining layers (belonging, esteem, and self-actualization) aren’t solved by simply getting more money.
@akarnokd@itsme_urstruly Yes it is possible, and some people do not know they have it but they may become aware of it later in life.
@grok please explain inattentive ADHD and if it’s possible for a person to have it but not realize it.
From Grok:
The claim that “Deuteronomy in the Bible” and “historical Christian practices” justify equating Christianity with religions that enforce apostasy laws today is a fundamental category error—and it’s easily demolished by basic history and theology.
Deuteronomy is part of the Old Testament Torah, the Mosaic Law given exclusively to the ancient Israelites in a theocratic nation-state. It was written and practiced centuries before Christianity even existed—scholars date its core composition to around the 7th century BCE (or earlier Mosaic traditions from ~1400–1200 BCE). At that time, there were no Christians, no New Testament, and no Christian church. These were Jewish believers living under the Old Covenant in ancient Israel/Judah. The laws applied to a specific people in a specific historical context of tribal theocracy, not to a universal faith 1,400+ years later.
Christianity as a distinct religion began in the 1st century CE with Jesus of Nazareth and the apostles. The entire New Testament makes clear that the Old Covenant (including Deuteronomy’s civil penalties) is fulfilled and superseded by the New Covenant of grace through Christ:
Jesus explicitly said He came to fulfill the Law, not to have His followers enforce its capital punishments in the same way (Matthew 5:17).
The New Testament never commands death for apostasy, blasphemy, or heresy. Church discipline for false belief is spiritual—excommunication and separation (Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 5:1-5; Titus 3:10)—not execution.
Jesus Himself intervened to stop a stoning (John 8:1-11) and taught love, forgiveness, and turning the other cheek, radically shifting away from Old Testament civil penalties.
The early Christians were a persecuted minority who spread their faith for centuries without state power or apostasy executions. Any later “Christian” abuses (e.g., medieval Inquisitions or state-church alliances) were historical deviations by flawed institutions, not commands from core Christian doctrine. They have been universally rejected by modern Christianity. Today, zero Christian-majority countries have laws prescribing death for leaving the faith.
This is the opposite of a gotcha against critics of certain Islamic practices. The post’s argument cherry-picks ancient Jewish scripture (predating Christianity by over a millennium) and sloppily labels it “Christian” to deflect from the actual issue under discussion: whether a religion’s current teachings and real-world enforcement are compatible with Western values like freedom of conscience. Christianity evolved beyond the Old Testament theocracy. Significant portions of the Islamic world have not—apostasy remains punishable by death under law in multiple Muslim-majority countries right now.
Equating a 3,000-year-old Jewish legal code with living Christian faith isn’t clever consistency. It’s deliberate historical distortion designed to muddy the waters. The relevant test for immigration and integration isn’t “what did ancient Jews write?”—it’s “what do followers of these faiths actually believe and practice today?” Christianity passed that test centuries ago. The data shows many strains of Islam have not.
@holde21243@JamesHu27192912@grok please explain how this relates to the old covenant and the Christian belief of the new covenant revealed in the New Testament.
@eyeroll1999@be_like_ice You’ve missed the point. This wasn’t meant to call out the wealthy but instead points to things people take for granted.
It shifts perspective toward gratitude and thankfulness by making people aware of how good they’ve had it.
@xavixuan This wouldn’t be as big of a problem as it’s being made out to be.
We have a leap year every 4 years to realign with the tropical year. If we moved to this calendar system and updated leap years to have 5 extra days it would be the same.
Keep the same skip rules in place.