SnoopSqueak, snoopsqueak@lemmy.today

If one truly existed of himself, he would have no dependencies, that one is God.

So, yes, special pleading. Your claim is that everyone (presumably everything ( requires a “dependency”… except god because he is special.

Grow up, your cult is killing us.

God has no dependencies, he doesn’t need us or depend on us but he loves us.

You don’t know what love is. Is god too weak to prevent cancer, or too cruel to care?

Thus, to claim that God does not exist is to claim that what has need of all has need of nothing.

Nope. To claim god doesn’t exist is to accurately represent reality as we sense it.

We do what? Have evidence for god and/or free will? We do not. Go ahead and provide your best, I will explain how it is fallacious or inaccurate.

Existence is evidence of existence, no creator implied. If you want to pretend everything requires a cause, then so does god, otherwise you’re falling for the special pleading fallacy.

The choices we make are a result of biological processes, not magic.

“Ugh, just get in the same box as everyone else so I can push you through the system without resistance.” - abusers, not teachers.

i am saying my belief is that they others are free to believe but not free to do whatever they want.

I don’t see the difference. They believe they are obligated to do those things, so they do those things.

There are laws for the things we can do and not do. We have the right (in the free world) to think what we want

Nobody can stop anybody from thinking their thoughts. My point is we should oppose false beliefs before they turn into harmful actions.

Please note that i am making a clear distinction between the freedom inside oneself (opinions, thoughts, beliefs) and acting on them.

What is the difference? They believe that’s how they should act, so that’s how they act.

If i believe my neighbour is an asshole, i am not and should not suddenly allowed to insult him.

Constructive criticism can change behaviors for the better, if everyone is listening to reason. Your neighbor shouldn’t be an asshole, that hurts everybody.

Unfortunately, yes. I agree on the problem.

Thank you. It is why I am a “militant” antitheist. I think that compromising with delusion gets innocent people killed needlessly.

But they believe they should do those things. Beliefs drive our actions. We should correct them every chance we get.

You: “Believe what you want.” Them: “OK, I believe my god wants to me to preach to you.” You: “Stop that.” Them: “No, my god demands it.”

Now what?

And if they believe their (utterly unproven) god wants them to restrict healthcare? Wants them to avoid vaccines? Commit genocide, take slaves, fly planes into buildings?

Innocent people are dying for the selfish beliefs of others.

Even if you believe in free will, god deliberately created the circumstances to trap humans. How the fuck does an omniscient being leave the room exactly long enough for his creations to incriminate themselves? Why no fence around the tree? Why make a tree like that at all? How were humans supposed to know good and evil without knowledge of good and evil? How do you know the snake is satan, why does god let satan harm people he supposedly cares about?

It’s the stupidest fucking shit imaginable. Think critically, please.

We have no evidence for the existence of god or free will. Please stop repeating baseless claims. People are dying for your selfish bullshit.

Or just don’t indulge in deadly superstition. Churches are there to continue the grift. Wishful thinking can be a form of self-reflection, centering ourselves can help soothe unwanted emotional responses, but prayer is not magic. Thoughts and prayers only help the person who is thinking and praying. Action is required to produce measurable change in the world.

And what are we confessing for? Being the way god made us? This guilt-based emotional manipulation is killing people.

Kind of admitting the lack of power prayer has, too. “But if I say a prayer and nobody sees it with my name attached, it’s like I didn’t pray at all.” They don’t get the validation they seek from god because he doesn’t exist, so they must constantly reassure themselves and each other that their delusion-based rituals are actually great.

And, yeah. More cynical humans knowingly take advantage of these shortsighted attitudes. It’s a huge, ancient grift taking not just money and information, but human lives for millennia. I would love to live to see the end of widespread superstition, a world where people are more honest because they realize it’s best for everybody.

I (30M) am a biological male, but I am rather feminine for a guy and I don’t totally identity as one end of the gender spectrum

I am 34, assigned male at birth. I typically use male pronouns out of habit, but I enjoy androgyny. I have long hair and I don’t like to let traditional attitudes about masculinity to restrict my choices.

I don’t mind making perverse jokes

Sometimes they can be funny, generally speaking.

about your female friends.

And now we have crossed a line, objectifying or misrepresenting real individuals without their knowledge or consent.

I have been told explicitly by my female friends that I “look innocent” and “doll-like” (which is a sign that the girls in my life give as good as they get).

Do you tell your dirty jokes to their faces? It sounds like they are being more honest with you than you are with them, but maybe I’m missing something.

(Note: Despite being fully able to feel sexual arousal and attraction and love and things like that, I have been through severe childhood psychological-sexual trauma, and I can’t ever imagine getting into an intimate relationship with a woman.)

I am sorry to hear that. Maybe the dirty jokes are a way of trying to exercise control over those experiences. I am just guessing, I am not a psychologist.

I have a rather dirty mind to be quite honest.

Probably not helped by constantly reinforcing this behavior with your peers.

Breast jokes are our thing lol. We’re all just normal guys

What is “normal”? I think you all have been conditioned to normalize unhealthy attitudes and behaviors. We choose some of our experiences, but others are thrust upon us, and we live in an age when we are constantly bombarded by conflicting stimuli.

Finding features attractive is fine until it crosses a line. Obsessing over or judging people for their physical attributes is too far.

I (30M) do enjoy talking that way about my female friends when I’m with other guys, but I also care a lot about my female friends and I stick up for them when I’m actually around them

It sounds to me like you genuinely care about everyone, but the style of jokes you share with your male friends may be in conflict with the respect you have for your female friends. If both groups were together at the same time, how would you act?

I have a very different set of problems, but I am in the process of asking myself this question that you might also benefit from considering: What kind of person do I want to be?

Thank you for sharing and asking. I think it shows that you care.

But then they claim it makes sense in context, or the old covenant is different from the new covenant, or some other cherry-picking bullshit. It is necessary to cherry-pick the bible because it so frequently contradicts itself.

We really shouldn’t tolerate baseless claims at all, people are dying needlessly for it. When people are given permission to falsely represent the reality we share, there is no limit to where their delusions might take them.

Christians have this weird and totally unearned persecution complex (2026 suggests it has all been projection all along)

100%. We start with what we can sense. God cannot be sensed. So why assume he exists at all? They’re telling us lies and getting pissy when we try to defend the truth our lives depend on.

Christians persecute others. Others must defend themselves or die. The public narrative is backwards, some beliefs should be dismantled instead of protected.

You start with “everyone’s entitled to their beliefs,” they harm you per their beliefs, and then you want to draw a line? Too late, you already gave them the blank check.

Christianity deserves pushback, not respect. It is a death cult. They don’t respect you, they think you belong to their god. They will be happy when you die, pretending you are rewarded in heaven or punished in hell. There is no such thing as a christ, we are not born with sin, we do not require divine salvation (which comes at the price of complete subjugation).

Can we stop letting them kill us? People should be held accountable for their choices, including the choice to accept and repeat baseless claims. As a species, we need to mature out of superstition before it kills us.

Not too spicy, but they at least acknowledge it.

On 27 July, WMF declined to voluntarily recognize the US union. WMF stated that the union would need to pursue a formal NLRB election procedure. 404 Media viewed the WMF’s 27 July statement as using “very carefully-worded language common among companies and organizations that have fought against unionization”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_unions

Despite whatever bible verse they want to quote, a fetus is not a person. The bible belt is a cancer. People are too selfish, scared, and stubborn to get educated.

Saying things doesn’t make them true. Wouldn’t ADHD be more like “just lock in.” “bro, I have a million keys and a million locks, how do I find the right ones?”

Anyway, I was sharing my own experience, which is why I used “sounds more like my” instead of “this meme is wrong.”

No. “I am locked out with the keys inside” suggests a problem that cannot be solved in the usual way because the usual solution is impossible due to the problem. So to me, it’s more about a fear inspired by inevitability than an inability to focus when it comes to getting inside. I’m focused on getting inside. But I can’t, my keys are in there. So what do I do?

“I’m just defending myself from all these antipeds”

That sounds more like my anxiety than ADHD.

“I can’t fix the things that are wrong because of the things that are wrong.”

Nah, just take one when you get the job. Then never again. For luck. 😉