Disparate peoples practiced sacrifice. Aztecs, Greeks, Jews.
This can’t be explained materialistically. So what is the spiritual purpose?
“Demons feed off of suffering”
If you apply that answer to Old Testament sacrifice, you wind up with Gnosticism.
What’s the real answer?
Why do they get so angry? It’s because abortion is ritual sacrifice. If it were truly healthcare, who cares if some guy shows up to debate it? You wouldn’t care at all. Let alone lose your mind.
@Cernovich Disparate peoples practiced sacrifice. Aztecs, Greeks, Jews.
This can’t be explained materialistically. So what is the spiritual purpose?
“Demons feed off of suffering”
If you apply that answer to Old Testament sacrifice, you wind up with Gnosticism.
What’s the real answer?
@DataRepublican True application of EA philosophy is right wing.
Example:
Would you choose to save 100 Anglo lives or 110 African lives?
In the long run, Anglo lives advance civilization more. So an EA who picked the 110 would be bad at math.
Leftists hate longtermism.
@skibidiblazor They were expecting a future with flying cars, but that future never materialized. They’re excited about self driving cars because it feels like the next best thing.
@DefiyantlyFree The FIRST aim of every constitution should be to obtain rulers who have the wisdom to discern and the virtue to pursue the common good of the society.
Constitutions should also take effective precautions for keeping politicians virtuous while they continue to hold office.
@realDonaldTrump American Intelligence.
Superior Intelligence *could* be good framing if you emphasize “Superior to China.” As in, our AI technology is the best in the world, superior to everyone else’s tech.
If you say it to mean “Superior to humans”, then the framing is anti-persuasive.
@DineshDSouza God may not have determined the course of our *entire* lives.
However, if the above true, then God has planned our lives at least 336 hours (2 weeks) in advance. Likely longer.
(3/3)
@DineshDSouza Presumably, the mechanism behind this experiment is the same mechanism behind prayer.
Meaning that God can begin influencing events to answer a prayer BEFORE you say the prayer.
(2/3)
@DineshDSouza You are way too confident that Calvinism is wrong.
Scientists at PEAR proved retrocausation in 1992. Ordinary people influenced RNG’s with their minds both before and AFTER the numbers had been generated.
Retrocausation suggests determinism.
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@anthonychen_atx@jeremyct “The basket of goods is just a representation of what a typical american spends their money on.”
Wrong.
The government picks the weights of the basket. And it selects weights such that consumer electronics are over represented and food is under represented.
@creation247 Men and women evolved for social different environments.
Women: babies/children
Men: enemy combatants
Men should run institutions that deal with enemy combatants. Military. Police. Border patrol. (aka the government)
“But the government does other things too!”
It shouldn’t.