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adjl posted...

Do you really understand the issue this poorly, or are you just being disingenuous to avoid confronting it?

I really am trying to understand. This so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill is really a "Don't Talk To Kids About Sex Until At Least 4th Grade" bill. Because sex is a mature topic I thought. How an 8 year old feels "sexually" is not a question many, if any, should ask.

But for some reason people have a problem with that. And I don't understand.

Same with Texas. Is it a law saying your little man can't wear lipstick and a skirt? I can't find anything saying it is. It's more of a "Don't subject them to radical and irreversible hormone therapy" law. But people don't like that either. These common sense things that, up until very very recently, were unthinkable to do with children.

Do Los Angeles County officials find it so crucial that kids talk about who they wanna have sex with?

Anybody remember how they had sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer on there? As a "word doctor" named Ruth Wordheimer?

I'm not sayin' the groomer fix was in as early as the 2000s, but as much as we like to be like "Oh wow, Sesame Street did a Game of Thrones parody," they never had the gumption to have a sex therapist on their show. Helping Muppet monkeys handle their fear of "long words" and suggesting that bored letter couples try threesomes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khPa_hiaecY

adjl posted...

But that's the thing: The Christian ideal of forgiveness means you don't hold that murder against the murderer for the rest of their life. You can respond as is practically necessary (that is, somebody prone to committing murder should be imprisoned to protect society from them), but you should not say "you're a murderer and therefore a horrible person and I will treat you accordingly." Those that are sinning should be advised and encouraged to repent, but once they are repentant, judging them for the sins for which they have repented goes against core Christian philosophy.

Forgiveness is only for those who repent. You must first admit that you are a filthy sinner and that you wish to change. Only then do I not hold your sins against you.

KodyKeir posted...

So how do you feel toward government sanctioned murderers, individuals who are very good at doing something very specialized for what they are told is the fate of the world? Do you condemn the assassin class solely because their job is detestable.

Assassins love wearing masks btw

How do I feel? We're not talking about how I feel.

adjl posted...

Nobody. It could, it could not, but nobody can really tell.

It is, which is why you shouldn't do that. There's a very key distinction between "you're doing something bad" and "you're a bad person." It's completely possible to say the former and justify doing so by relating it to the latter, but extrapolating the former into the latter is just poor statistical interpretation, even if we put all moral questions aside.

That's not how it goes for any other bad thing a person could do though. If I was a murderer, I would be called a murderer. You wouldn't say "Murdering is bad, you shouldn't do it, although I'm sure you're a fine person aside from how you kill people." If you murder, you're as filthy as a murderer is filthy. And if you sin, you're as filthy as a sinner is filthy.

adjl posted...

"You're going to Hell" is. "That might send you to Hell" is not. Ultimately, everyone (that cares) is just playing the odds and hoping they don't piss off the big guy too much; no single act (with a few exceptions) is going to seal the deal one way or the other.

Who says this sin won't seal the deal?

But even if it didn't, I'm still not understanding how accusing someone of being a filthy sinner isn't a personal judgement. If I as a Christian see you sinning, I can say you're a sinner, and that it's bad to be one.

"Anti-lefties," whatever the name you wanna give 'em, have been begging Elon Musk to save them from Twitter for years now. Whether that be through making his own Twitter, or otherwise. If he really wanted to do that, he would've done it right away.

Elon Musk is a lot like Kanye. Lots of talk, but no action when the time comes. Because when the time comes, reality sets in and they both realize that it's not really practical or interesting to do all that stuff people thought you were gonna do.

adjl posted...

And you can do that without personally judging them. "Hey that's bad don't do that" doesn't require you to make assumptions or judgements about their entire life, just about whatever they're doing.

So if it's fine to say "You're going to Hell for doing that thing you like to do," what assumptions/judgements would this hypothetical Christian be making that they shouldn't? How is "You're going to Hell for doing that" not a personal judgement?

Revelation34 posted...

It doesn't matter since it means they are not sins by definition if you don't believe it.

If you're a Christian, and other people don't believe in Christianity, those other people are wrong. I'm talking about what's right/wrong from the perspective of a proper Christian. I'm saying proper Christianity is absolutely not about saying "Other people sinning is fine, I don't care." And it's REALLY absolutely not about saying "I welcome the sinner, and I also will not try to save them. I'm just gonna be nice to them and nothing else. That's what Christianity wants me to do." No, Christianity wants you to save them from sin. Someone has to.

Revelation34 posted...

What Christianity considers a sin doesn't mean other religions/cultures consider it a sin.

Christianity specifically does not care for or recognize other religions/cultures. No false gods. God is jealous, He said so himself.

Revelation34 posted...

No. Only douchebags do that.

But it's sin. The very pathway to Hell. There's nothing else to Christianity, or any religion, but fighting that kind of evil.

adjl posted...

All of that falls within the realm of "judging actions but not people," which is the central point I've made in every post on the subject.

So how do you get these people to avoid sin? You have to confront sinners and say "Hey, you're going to Hell if you keep doing that."

adjl posted...

I didn't say "gospel," I said "judgement," specifically in the sense of judging somebody's entire life. Religion can tell you what's right and wrong, and you can act and respond to the actions of others accordingly, but making broader judgements is outside of its scope.

But as a Christian, your job is to see that sin does not prevail. You must be an example against sin, call out sin when you see it, inform others how they might avoid sin. If someone's sinning, and you say "That's fine for them if they want to," that's not a sin that they're committing. That's a "preference" they have.

Squizzy has done a video with no jumpscares in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TEXdVg8iXw

Fucking finally Cody did his April Fool's thing I was waiting all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJe_fhkOuw

DrYuya posted...

Also, I think 99% of us wear the seatbelts primarily because we don't want to get pulled over. Cops like to get people for that.

Yeah, Click It or Ticket. But if the comparison is "You should do X for the same reason you wear a seatbelt," the reason would be "It's the law." That's not a choice by me, that's a compulsion by authority. If I didn't have to do X, I wouldn't do X. So if I don't have to get vaccinated, I won't. And if I don't have to wear a mask, I won't. And if I can get away with not wearing a seatbelt, I will.

adjl posted...

Christians are perfectly free to judge actions and beliefs on their own merits. What they shouldn't do is judge people's entire lives and existence, since that's a very complex process that requires far more information than any mere mortal has access to. Limit judgements to what's immediately and practically necessary (i.e. you don't need to know everything about a murderer to know that they're dangerous and shouldn't roam free), but leave the rest up to the big guy (or for the atheists, just let it go).

And yes, a great many Christians ignore this, because a great many Christians aren't very Christ-like at all. But that's not particularly news to anyone.

If Christianity was about leaving the gospel to the Big Guy, there would be no churches. Christianity, like all dogmas, is about explaining what is right, what is wrong, and making sure wrongness does not prevail. You don't have a religion if you don't have rules.

MICHALECOLE posted...

It sounds like youre against the only one that had effort put into it

That's not effort, they let the comments section write the joke for them. All they did was wait.

Now, Pusheen the Cat, she's featuring Pugsheen the Dog today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-PHQ3XM0w

E3 used to be an event. Kyle Bosman once said of E3 "It's like Christmas for video games." And it really was for me. Once upon a time. But all of the institutions that made it what it was went away. GameTrailers is gone. The conferences themselves have kinda been gone for years now. And now E3 itself is gone.

I'm not happy to see it go. This is a sad thing for me. But at the same time, a necessary thing a long time coming.

FredFlix, a channel about retro TV and media, has a review of Superman the Movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxVuJ9awwyM

100 days ago, a channel call "countdown" counted down to this day. Leading to a Rick Roll. Such a dogshit prank, I don't even wanna post it. Because I don't even think that was the plan. I'm pretty sure they had no plan, and got the idea from all of the people who speculated that there would be a Rick Roll.

Jimmy Davis, last of the SpaDinner poopists, has uploaded high quality remasters of the Wand of Gamelon cutscenes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQd7Cl4ejk

Shrouded Hand, one of those "true horror topic" YouTube channels has a particularly disturbing topic today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrEsnm8rsJw

Looper leaked the cameo list for Multiverse of Madness...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ft3iYkHzlU

You work at a restaurant? Because I used to work at a restaurant and left for the same reason. I wanted the server job with the beefy tips, the job they promised me. But they said "We'll see about setting you up for that in the summer."

But like you, I didn't wanna say "Fuck you guys" because I was kinda friendly with these people. So I made up a compelling reason that I had to leave.

The Unusual Suspect has done "Crazy Frog" for his Cinema Sings series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd_1AvE9oVs

Muscles posted...

I don't think WWIII is really a risk at this point, if Russia needs a bunch of hired thugs to take out its vastly smaller neighbor after failing to do so themselves what the fuck are they gonna do to any world power? This whole debacle has only proven russia's incompetence

What is WW3? How do you define it? Would it be a war where multiple countries are playing? Because isn't that what's happening right now?

Some say "It'll be on when NATO is involved." Because the countries of NATO would be "allied powers" fighting against Russia. But moreso, if NATO gets involved, this war might get nuclear. US on the field will embolden Putin to use what nukes he has. And then we'll have to use what nukes we have.

I don't like to be one of those guys who's like "This is just like that book or movie of video game I like," but this really reminds me of Peace Walker, and the test of how far human beings are actually willing to take things when nuclear war is on the table. Would Putin fire nukes if the US jumped in? And if the US got nuked, would we really nuke back? Or would we, for fear of plunging the world into armageddon, say "Okay, haha, fair enough Russia you can have that one but let's play nice from now on?"

Lofi Girl and her cat have switched places for April Fool's Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A

Anybody doing anything cool or funny today? Websites, YouTube channels, Twitter accounts, subreddits...

I just realized I named mostly things that wouldn't really be looked at 10-15 years ago. Does anyone remember what April Fool's Day looked like on the Internet in 2007-2008?

MICHALECOLE posted...

Do you wear a seatbelt? When was the last time you were in a car accident? Why wear a seatbelt then

I don't wear a seatbelt.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zero evasion, strange downward slap, weird flex, none of it looked remotely human. It looked like it came straight out of a school performance.

If you wanna do damage, you don't slap like your hand is an inanimate object. You do it like a palm strike. Put some strength behind it.

No no no, Will and Jada's relationship has been open for years and they both knew that. Will Smith has fucked just about every female opposite he's ever co-starred with.

I'm not saying the slap wasn't motivated in part by some insecurity about his marriage though. I'm pretty sure Will Smith is a selfish person. Rules for everyone else, but not for him.

Putin could've had Kyiv if he wanted it badly enough. As mad as he is, he isn't stupid. If he plays war for serious, there might not be much of a Ukraine for him to conquer.

@Adam_Savage

we're three years into a pandemic that should have been over in a few months

everything is expensive and jobs are paying lower

the political landscape in every region is utter garbage prioritizing profit over populace

nazis came back

russia decided to start a war and threaten nuclear holocaust to everyone

there's quite a few reasons as to what would make someone depressed right now

Two years and some months. Technically if you live in the United States, the lockdowns only started in March. And Nazis never left. We certainly had edgy sociopolitical views in 2005.

@tonicpalin

medical costs are about as expensive as USA even after "government subsidies". and after retirement the insurance corps pretty much block you from all medical insurance, so we can only rely on government stuff which only deduct like a maximum of a few thousand bucks a month, when it cost more than 3 million dollars (estimate from over a decade ago) to survive cancer.

as for rent, well this is one of the most expensive cities in the SEA, with houses that can cost up to 5 million bucks... for a limited lease period. there's cheaper "commie block" options, but i don't qualify for any of them because i'm not married or anything like that.

What I mean is, what happened to you that you've found yourself in these straits?

@tonicpalin

cost of "socialised medicine" and the "rent is the too damn high" stuff.

Do you mind being a little more specific?

@tonicpalin

im probably gonna die homeless and bankrupt , yes. unless i die quickly of cose.

Why is this happening to you?

@KodyKeir

Fairly certain that was the last time I had sex with someone other than myself. Might very well have been that day too.

Was it exciting?

I actually remember what I was doing that day. I was at Kmart, in the electronics/video games section, playing Star Fox Assault. And I saw Krystal. She was all staring at the player and caressing her body. Oh, that was kind of exciting.

I know, I know. Wrong board, what poll. But I only do this when it's actually interesting.

February 27th, 2005:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1924-how-are-you

April 20th, 2013:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5060-how-are-you

May 13th, 2015:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5873-how-are-you

November 8th, 2019:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7775-how-are-you

Notice how the weight of the poll ebbs from "I'm good, can't complain" to "Not so good, but not that bad?" I don't know when the shift actually started, but it was definitely underway by 2013, balanced by 2015, and then officially shifted by 2019.

So what were we all so happy about in 2005? Let's try and figure it out.

Picture this. The year is 2005. All is joy. You're dancing and prancing through the fields. You're naked. Everyone else is naked too, dancing and prancing. Some people are kissing. You notice. Oh, this is kind of exciting. You stop dancing.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The fact that people literally shut down their lives for a year or two and went out of their way to deliberately limit human contact probably also helped. Fewer people in the wild means fewer potential carriers for you to encounter.

Except the vaccine helps the people who do catch it, by moderating the symptoms. Vaccination can be the difference between needing to be hospitalized for days and just riding out the symptoms at home.

And then there's other factors to consider. Certain people's physiology seems to be weaker against it, so they'll suffer worse symptoms if they do contract it, so they're much better off vaccinated. Same for immunocompromised people who would pretty much be fucked if they caught it completely unprotected. And even perfectly healthy people still have a lower chance of catching it if they're vaccinated than they do if they're not. In addition, people in more rural areas where they interact with people less or shut-in people who already do most of their shopping by delivery and avoid going out are going to be safer than people who live in crowded areas and are constantly interacting with people.

It's like going into combat and choosing whether or not to wear a bulletproof vest. Sure, you might avoid getting shot entirely. You might even avoid it for a long time. And even if you do get shot it might just be a graze. But if you take one directly in the chest, you're going to be very, very glad that you wore your vest... and you might just be dead if you didn't.

The problem with vaccination is that if it works the way it's supposed to, it doesn't really have a visible, tangible effect from the anecdotal perspective, so it's easier to dismiss it as being unnecessary. It's vaccination that is playing a large part in making the virus less virulent.

I mean fuck a vaccine for me. Masks have worked fine for me. So I doubt I'll need a vaccine.

wwinterj25 posted...

A lot are acting this way. Booking holidays and happy to have others visit my country too. In other words people are stupid.

Mask mandates are coming down in the United States. That's when it's over. When I'm not legally compelled to worry about it.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Yes, that's how reality works, very good.

So I mean, fuck a vaccine, right? The masks will do.

I could not have played faster and looser with this corona thing and I didn't catch shit. How did I do it? I constantly checked to see if I had it. And not the liquor store home test, no, I went to a university hospital to get tested. Got a runny nose a couple times, but it was never the corona.

These past two years have actually been some of the healthiest years of my life. I wonder if it's because everyone was wearing masks. You guys wear masks, I don't catch your germs, I don't get as sick as I used to. But now I'm worried my body has gotten comfortable, and the next time I get a full blown cold it won't be able to handle it.