Global Events & Politics Überthread

[thethe]

Take the oil!

 

[thethe]

Are you a Christian Sturg? Do you think theres a white hippie looking dude on top of the clouds watching you poop? But I am the crazy one. Sure. Why do all religions rules feel like a guy just making a wish list. Islam just takes it to a slight more extreme.

You think we evolved from nothing?

 

[Garmel]

You think we evolved from nothing?

While I can't rule out a divine source completely, I can say for certainty that evolution is real.

 

[thethe]

While I can't rule out a divine source completely, I can say for certainty that evolution is real.

From nothing though?

 

[Garmel]

From nothing though?

Maybe or maybe not.

I don't have an answer.

However, intelligent design could be legitimate.

 

[zitothebrave]

You think we evolved from nothing?

Energy is neither created nor destroyed

 

[thethe]

Give me your earliest explainable time by science and my question simply is what happened before?

 

[zitothebrave]

Give me your earliest explainable time by science and my question simply is what happened before?

It's a human thought to believe that things needed something to create. Who created the god? Who bestowed upon the god the ability to create?

 

[thethe]

It's a human thought to believe that things needed something to create. Who created the god? Who bestowed upon the god the ability to create?

No the thing/entity/being that existed first is the deity. Thats the whole point.

 

[chop2chip]

Feels like this is Trump’s big bet

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030404785762083117

 

[zitothebrave]

No the thing/entity/being that existed first is the deity. Thats the whole point.

Who created the deity?

Why couldn't what existed before be pure energy?

 

[thethe]

Who created the deity?

Why couldn't what existed before be pure energy?

Where did the energy come from? It appeared?

 

[thethe]

Feels like this is Trump’s big bet

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030404785762083117

Correct - Iranian leadership will be demolished and then we will control th oil and the straight with Saudi’s Arabia.

Trump isn’t here to make low ceiling plays.

 

[zitothebrave]

Feels like this is Trump’s big bet

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030404785762083117

One of the gas stations by me was 3.49. Luckily I have a hybrid so I don't have to fill up often.

National gas average is up 43 cents from a week ago. Heating Oil surging well over 4. We're looking up to like 4.55+ and it's NH, it's still cold, highs now are in the 40s and 50s, but later this week we're back to getting snow and getting in the 30s as the high. Lows still consistently below freezing. I'm running down to a quarter tank and waiting to decide if I should get more or not.

 

[zitothebrave]

Where did the energy come from? It appeared?

Both our beliefs require us to not know the origin of what we believe is the origin to have existed without knowing how that was created.

 

[mqt]

Where did the energy come from? It appeared?

I have no qualms with this just being a universally reality of some sort. If anything exists, then nothing can’t exist. I don’t see why that can’t just hold on its own if you don’t think of time as linear.

 

[thethe]

Both our beliefs require us to not know the origin of what we believe is the origin to have existed without knowing how that was created.

The origin is God. That doesn’t require a question of what came before because that’s all there ever was.

 

[thethe]

I have no qualms with this just being a universally reality of some sort. If anything exists, then nothing can’t exist. I don’t see why that can’t just hold on its own if you don’t think of time as linear.

Time is only not linear for God. The rest of us are living through our time

 

[Tapate50]

You cant even get behind freedom here. How can you people see a country where religion is forced on people using laws and violent enforcement and see that as evil but dont see people trying to do it here as perfectly fine. No one believes MAGA cares about women. Christians and Islam arent all that different in their beliefs on women. Islam just goes a little further. And just as Christians look down on women who wear revealing clothing is the same way a woman in the burka looks at the Christian women.

Good lord

 

[mqt]

Time is only not linear for God. The rest of us are living through our time

I mean, sure. I don’t have a better answer. I’m just saying that if I accept time as not necessarily being linear and existence directly negating the lack of existence that I don’t see it as some sort of unsolvable conundrum.