@RobinDLaws I think y'all are overdue for a segment on Meret Oppenheim!

Homelander being a contemptible psycho is triple-underlined in blood-red; anyone who admires him was...let's say already inclined in certain directions.

I think Michel DeMontagne said something similar about honesty, that is that he simply can't keep straight what falsehoods he should tell, so he doesn't.

To be clear, I'm not bothered that being a dad is important to you! Rather, it's about what I read from the fact that you volunteer it early. "Oh no, is he obsessed with the nuclear family as a pillar of society?!" even though I've met you, and the answer is no.

It might have to do with the question: If I know nothing about you, is one of the 3 most important questions "Does he have children?" I don't think it is, and the negative signal may spring from this mismatch.

My Nazidar went off when I saw the statue pic, but this seems to be a legit and quite lovely collection.

Ooh, are you using something like Sente?

Industry, science, and government encompasses many institution types. What should we do instead?

translated out of what now

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Text scammers aspiring to literature

Dwarf Fortress at the MoMA

Feed the what now

It sounds like you're saying we can declare things without justifying them, ie we have a license to believe anything we want whether it's true or not. Nothing is verifiable; everything is arbitrary. This has pretty profound implications, some of them alarming.

It's fascinating how this argument always ends up at the same impasse. I think it's a problem of definition, where "free will" is allowed to have a definition that has no meaningful test or consequences, ie it's not falsifiable.

So you're saying that people who were always damned could have avoided it, ie God could be wrong about them? God isn't omniscient through all space and time?

So you're saying that people who were always damned could have avoided it, ie God could be wrong about them?

Responsibility and causation are different. Responsibility is who gets punished, but if your decision was foreordained then you were born to be punished and had no say in it.