• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    There are good things that are less intuitive about eg. Christian values such as forgiveness. You get as many chances as you need and are still worth saving no matter what you have done wrong.

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    If fear of divine retribution is your only reason for being a good person, then you are not a good person.

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      How odd… You’re not the first person who’s told me that Catbox links aren’t working either, I wonder what’s up with that.

      Anyways, I’ve changed the link so hopefully it’ll load now.

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    Shame and peer pressure are outsourcing ethics and never independently developing character.

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    People always told me that Grimes was super smart, but every time she opens her mouth, it’s some of the dumbest shit I have ever heard. She is the guy we all knew in high school, the one who takes mushrooms and stares at Tool album covers, and expects the rest of us to pretend they are brilliant.

    This chick literally wrote an open letter to communists, saying that if they support Elon Musk, he will use AI to bring a communist system.

    If she were to ever shut up, it may dawn on her that she is actually a fucking idiot, and we can’t have that, so she never shuts the fuck up.

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      She’s very good and talented at music, and I stand behind that. But as you’ll know if you see anything about personal lives of musicians, it doesn’t automatically make her good at anything else.

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        Oh believe you me, I 100% stand by the first 10 years of Kanye, and artists’ don’t have the right to ruin nostalgia for our youth. We are not obligated to stand by old men or women just because they did cool things in their youth.

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      If she were to ever shut up, it may dawn on her that she is actually a fucking idiot, and we can’t have that, so she never shuts the fuck up.

      "It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day,” or “You’re very tall,” or “So this is it, we’re going to die.”

      His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.

      After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this–“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

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    Someone that fucked Elon should really keep ideas about morality out of their fucking mouth

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    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

    Emphasis my own. Yes there is a self evident morality, you don’t need God to tell you what’s right and wrong.

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    Having a god reign over some heads is a useful tool against those who don’t share the same values, but fear the existence of a higher power.

    As always, it’s about lacking control and the frustration that comes with.