Get that heresy out of here, pope or nope!

E: to be clear, im talking here about my own personal experience growing up catholic, not talking about all the different types of christianity. Im aware of a few of them, but not as huge on the details, I know they went to different primary schools. (The joys of being Dutch, look up 'verzuiling' (pillarisation iirc). Less a thing so now I think, I oddly experienced a vestige of it re primary school).

Yeah been a while since I was confirmed (or believed) but the free will part of that was considered important from what I remember. So not only being a decent person, but also the choice to believe in and act on the faith.

Unrelated, but it is odd how much I have been thinking back about all that the last few years, esp more so the last year. Lot of it is due to the US gov being really keep on getting excommunications back on the menu. (Note this doesn't make the church good in any way, like even if we ignore the coverup of the pedophilia, they went full anti trans recently).

I was not giving real advice on how to firebomb people. Hope that was clear.

On a different note, 'our god means you have no free will' is also quite opposed to what I got from Christianity.

Waterballoon molotovs.

And indeed on nr 2. Even sillier is of course that the AI doom people thought they could control people like this.

Yeah, because putting _'s around something is another way to your text TIL and all that.

The post after that is also a bit worrying

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Don't forget to slash your slash \\ becomes \

E: wait the _ also needs to be slashed.

I have joked before how people really into stoicism tend to be quite emotional and even a risky, as stoicism always seems to be aspirational and doesnt describe the stoic fans behaviour (a good example is the yter Sargon), but this might be a bit of an extreme example.

The link to the article here clearly says 'Whisker Squadron: Survivor' to me. But here, a steam link.

some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

It is to me so weird how often this comes up. A big plot point in starship troopers (the book) was that due to not hitting kids (and a vague handwave at criminals but mostly kids) western democracies fell for example.

Now I wonder how the NRx with their pro corporal punishment stance (which iirc Scott liked) feel about hitting kids.

Im also annoyed at how much words are written about the Collins. Stop promoting these doofuses. (They have come up in sneerclub before) (Late edit: She said she was really unsettled by this interview on twitter Sorry to hear you stared into the abyss Jenny, and I didn't mean this as a personal attack towards you (not that you will read this but yeah))

E: a thing I was wondering about, with the pronatalist technofetishists, who say that both we will all die out by lack of births as old people starve, and who fetishize AGI and robot labour causing a post scarcity world, that seems contradictory, I wonder how the Rationalists deal with this contradiction.

What if I made the line thicc?

Sickos: Yes Ha Ha YES!