ArgumentativeMonotheist

In personal experience. Believing the way I and many others have certainly helps you check yourself before you wreck yourself/your surroundings constantly, and ends in having the self-respect and self-esteem that comes from being a responsible, helpful, peaceful member of society (well, we try, but the better you get at controlling your anger or your nerves or whatever and being easier on the world, the better you feel). It fills the void that shopping, hooking up, using drugs and consuming mindless entertainment eventually fail at filling. Idk how to make people realize it besides exemplifying IRL and yapping about it, and I don’t think anyone can do anything more about it either.

The message of Jesus goes in quick (but people don’t read and just listen to some dude in a funny hat/robe…) and has the power to bring people together to work for a better future, but yeah, people have to do their part and we’re all fallible and have at least some moments of heightened stupidity and emotional turbulence. But I think it’s better to actually believe that A, B and C are immutably wrong (wanton destruction, adultery, excessive greed, etc etc) than to believe everything is negotiable, that good and bad are cultural in nature (it’s just lazy thinking too tbh), cause the perceptive, empathetic ones would’ve known it regardless and would’ve acted that way whether they could express it as an ideology or not, and the lesser among us in prosociality need the push.

My mom got me a copy of Mein Kampf when I was little (I asked, I was curious about what this Hitler guy used to yap about) and she never even questioned it, lol. She really had faith in little ol’ me. 😅

Lol. I haven’t read much about it but a quick search showed me that the people at the top of that project are basically Biblical villains. 😅

Preach, brother. 🙏

Honestly, I think pure monotheism (believing we will all have to explain our choices to the Creator, the Merciful, the Almighty, who gave us this life and universe for free and asks us only not to corrupt nor senselessly destroy the rest of his creation, more importantly, and acting like it) works pretty well, but I guess you could see my bias from my username, lol.

IME, it’s not the few sociopaths and psychologically extreme that ruin it though, it’s those who aren’t but through a lack of effort put into thought and emotional growth end up following these wolves in sheep clothing. No, “I was just following orders/the rules/what they said” is not and has never been a good defense, and God won’t like it either because if he didn’t want you to think you would’ve been a pig or a mouse, idk, lol. So, for this vast majority of regular, good spirited and passably reasonable people, I do think believing in God works. But we don’t have that in the West, we have the more satanic “nothing is true (the final conclusion of moral relativists) and nothing is forbidden”, whether you’re an atheist, a pagan or an American styled Catholic…

Yeah, I think I didn’t understand the premise at all, I thought we were talking about an Irish goodbye, lol. My bad, I agree entirely then.

I never thought it was! But I’m delighted to know more about their situation and that they have been blessed financially too, although happiness can also be found in a cramped apartment! 😅

I didn’t even know there was an anon feature. Don’t even read it if you can, just close the page next time.

That’s actually very wholesome (and your daughter is Wonder Woman, lol). 🙏

That’s step 1 before the inevitable step 2: starting an ‘alpha male’ podcast and complaining about ‘gold diggers’, lol.

Honestly, I was expecting worse from the post seeing at that pic. Oh well, I guess there aren’t that many guys in her town, lol.

You’d have an aneurysm trying to read the Dune series, lol.

He could just say he was in drag…

It depends. If it’s something debatable, let’s talk about it, of course. Most of my friends are women because, just like me, they enjoy yapping about feelings and what they have/could have done in past and future scenarios, the bread and butter of open ended conversations. But I’m not gonna waste my time arguing about when something happened or who said what, when I could just tap my finger a few times and get the answer.

If you don’t hate them, why can’t you spare a few seconds saying goodbye to people? Are you that badly socialized or does regular human interaction drains/scares/annoys you that much?

Without a shared righteous moral code, what else can we expect but men being wolves to their fellow men and a community’s inevitable implosion?

Of course, just don’t give them money. Unless you’re listening to the musical equivalent of “The Eternal Jew”/“American Sniper”, in which the content was not only made by hateful, possibly hellbound people but is also actively trying to morph your ideology to be more like theirs, what’s the danger?

I’d appreciate it too, if you don’t mind DMing another stranger. 🙏

“Under God” makes entire sense when you remember that, if Americans have ONE shared cultural trait, it’s being morally flexible as long as you get rich. Trying to get rich is the only command they’ll follow, the one thing they’ll all agree upon. And they surely trust in their God printed on green paper, lol.