/townhall/ - Townhall

>>15201
>Sure they exist, but the folk preeching this kind of shit never are actual Christians.

That's a no true scotsman fallacy right there. And quite a delusional one

>>15201
>Moneylenders, shady dealers, and general dishonest crooks?
>I really don't see your point in the slightest.

Yeah, cause you're a fucking hypocrite. Jesus also said it's easier for a camel to move through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. He didn't turn his whip against the people you personally hate, he didn't turn his whip against people for being queer, foreigners or adulterers (he actually defended them from hypocritical Pharisees). Calling  them just 'those who were perverting that temple.' Is really fucking disengenuous giving yourself a floating signifier to include whomever you want in that category.

And no, jesus wasn't some entirely peace loving hippie, but the only people he was violent towards were the greedy in the temple. Otherwise he did say the most important of God's laws was to love they neighbor as theyselves and when asked who was one's neighbor, gave the parable of the good Samaritan to make the point that everyone god created is one's neighbor.

But you fucking hypocrites twist that shit aroubd to try and justify fucking fascism by completely ignoring the most important details about the only people jesus was violent against.

Jesus's whole point in his opposition to and criticisms of the Pharisees was that the spirit of the law was more important than the precise letter of it. People who twist the imperfect language of that law to justify doing things against the spirit of the law that the rest of the stories make clear are best described as Pharisees, which includes a good chunk of hate-addicted evangelicals who are ultimately worshiping themselves for being native born Americans and who label themselves Christian as a 'get out of jail free' card with a really fucking convenient 'faith alone theology'.

>>15171
One has to ask whether or not Jesus Christ was a completely failed prophet and preacher given that the central point of his ministry was to die on the cross in order to atone for the sins of humanity such that all can live in unconditional peace and grace having been saved by Him.

And then 99.9999% of the Christians throughout history have supported war, torture, slavery, genocide, the death penalty, and every conceivable form of violence that mankind can do to mankind.

I mentally and emotionally cannot understand divorcing Jesus as Savior from Jesus as God, only believing the latter to be true, when Jesus crying out to turn the other cheek and create a Planet without hurting and killing between peoples is exactly in tandem with why He died on the cross in the first place: out of love.

If history looks at Jesus Christ as anything, an objective take is that He was somebody who believed wrongly about the core of human nature: that we're basically evolutionary bred murderers and rapists conditioned to compete and struggle. Calling for us to view all men and women as our spiritual brothers and sisters, loving them, is pure stupidity. Alas.

Hitler and Stalin both perfectly personify the biological nature of the human race. People like Jesus are abnormal freaks. That's a fact. Sadly.

>>15226
>If history looks at Jesus Christ as anything, an objective take is that He was somebody who believed wrongly about the core of human nature: that we're basically evolutionary bred murderers and rapists conditioned to compete and struggle. Calling for us to view all men and women as our spiritual brothers and sisters, loving them, is pure stupidity. Alas.
>Hitler and Stalin both perfectly personify the biological nature of the human race. People like Jesus are abnormal freaks. That's a fact. Sadly.

That's a false dichotomy fallacy and oversimplies human nature.

Humans are by nature conflicted between personal individuals needs and interest and love for other humans, both a product of evolution, niether side is the 'default'.

Humans are born entirely dependent on other humans to get them to adulthood, and it's generally very difficult for any individual to support a newborn human alone for quite a few years. Historically the nuclear families of western 19th and 20th century cultures are an anomoly, most children had Historically been raised in multi-generational households and in addition depended on local community support as well.

Humans are not hyper individualistic or hyper collectivist, they're in between: they're tribal, but they can control their tribal tendencies through how they think about other people.

Jesus's values are not unique in history, he wasn't the last to preach and command people to strive for universal human compassion and he certainly wasn't the first. I don't personally believe Jesus was a specially anointed messiah or god as Christians do but I see him as one of many people throughout history that reflects the compassionate side of that internal and eternal conflict that is human nature

Have you stopped beating your kids today?

>>15220
The problem is that parents no longer beat their children.

>am finished with politics in every form

This is what the government truly fears..

"You look like a bot."

Oh, okaay.

Ask a Republican and he'll say he's playing 4D chess and joking and trolling the libs and it's hillarious

Ask a Democrat and they will say that he's Hitler reborn who is planning to rip up the constitution and elect himself a dictator god emperor for life

Ask a based centrist and they will tell you that they don't care, nothing ever happens and that they just want to grill

Take your pick

>>15223

> Ask a based centrist and they will tell you that they don't care, nothing ever happens and that they just want to grill

If tomorrow an asteroid hits the surface and wipes out all of humankind in an instant, on a cosmis scale nothing really happened either

The first Fallout predicted it.

People called Fallout 3's plot dogshit. But who's going to be laughing when they install an AI as president and someone convinces it to blow itself up?

That's right. Todd. Todd always laughs last.

this is a pointless distraction

>>15208

yes

>>15207

this has been suggested for about two decades. guess it only took an executive order to do? but without a penny, that would mean items should only be priced no less than in terms of nickels... for example, $1.00, $1.05, $1.10, $1.15, etc.

But according to https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1776?amount=0.01, "$0.01 in 1776 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $0.36 today, an increase of $0.35 over 249 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.45% per year between 1776 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 3,527.64%."

So, a more moderate position would be to stop minting nickels and dimes, as well. With quarters, however, being worth less than they used to be, I would also consider stopping minting them, as well (and perhaps bringing back the 50-cent piece into regular circulation).

A new coin that changes value, such as an inflation-adjusted penny could be minted and set to an initial value of 36 cents. Or, a regular 36-cent coin could be produced as the lowest denomination coin and a new inflation-adjusted lowest denomination coin could be minted every year at a higher value to help citizens keep track of inflation in an easy-to-understand way. (Other coins and bills would not be inflation-adjusted - just the new penny)

good to see darkmatter2525 still making videos

See >>15173

>>15166
Man, the memes had me convinced this was something it wasn't. Like it was anywhere even close. He isn't even doing it straight on. It's to the side like a fucking dab.
Dumbest nothingburger of my life.

>>15178

>Is a takeover of world governments by advanced AI something that ultimately is inevitable?

Nah. Nothing is inevitable.

>Is there any clear way to prevent it from happening?

Eh, why would you want to?

>For context, the screenshot is of a public commentary done by Sam Altman who's the CEO of OpenAI.

...

>cnbc

If this goes too far, the government and state could be dismantled within the next century.

>>15183
What exactly is wrong with the photo? It's accurately described.

And you're actually going to cram "illegal" immigrants, unwanted criminals and leftist protesters indefinitely in an offshore prison known for detaining and torturing terrorists.

The price for freedom.

If America no longer stands for human rights and civil liberties, then it is a failed state by all accounts.