DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2d ago
The American cults have historical attestation in a culture of free press and newspapers, in a country with continuity of government, which has never been invaded. That’s the low bar.
The skeptics were also immediate (within the lifetime of the “prophets”) and covered each sketchy detail of e.g. Joseph Smith’s story.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4d ago
No, we really do not believe fetuses are human.
I assume you here mean human-as-in-person as in Kirk’s eulogy of Spock, and not human-as-in-species.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
5d ago
Ah yes, the mustard seed, smallest of all agriculturally relevant seeds known by name by His audience and famed for its culinary uses.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
5d ago
Also the point of Jesus healing people. He even said that His healings were given as proof He could forgive sins on the cosmic ledgers.
In McDowell’s Evidence That Demands A Verdict, the author flatly states that if we discount all Christian traditions and writings, we’d still find it historically attested that a Judaean man was known in the region as a miraculous healer, was executed by the state, and his thousands of disciples were convinced to the point of martyrdom that he rose from the dead and promised them likewise.
Like it or not, things God does non-deterministically are anecdotes and outliers, not to be included in the How Things Work “general revelation” dataset.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
5d ago
If I were writing it or gaming it out, I’d say that The Fruit Of Freewill Misalignment broke something epigenetic in the brain, and accepting Jesus is a package deal that includes the Holy Spirit standing in for it as long as we live.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
5d ago
Not a convert here, I’m still attending the same church of my youth. Yes, if I had a time machine I’d be gobsmacked if I could go further back than 10,000 years.
I fully believe that Materialist explanations of origins rest on Atheist biases, scientists are often bad philosophers, and God didn’t use random generative processes for everything.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6d ago
On a subreddit that reposts Tumblr posts, I just read a fantastic endorsement of Death Note as an examination of how monstrous people become when they’re allowed to kill without consequence. Basically, the show and manga both make it crystal clear how quickly people go from principled secret murders of bad people to convenience killings.
And all I could think was how quickly I’d be banned for life if I dared point out half of the population has the Death Note for their unborn babies. I thought of asking, “Is the Death Note a metaphor for concealed carry or Roe v Wade?”
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6d ago
The unexpectedness of a post-trib Rapture can be accounted at least two ways.
First, there are good enough explanations for all four Rapture scenarios that all have large numbers of adherents. (Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, no Rapture). This leads to the Unexpected Hanging Paradox even after the mid-trib passes with no Rapture.
Second, fallen angels can read the Bible and try to hijack the human interpretations of the prophecies with a confusing array of pseudo-Messiahs, only the final one of which is the Man of Lawlessness, the Antichrist. In fact, it’s to their advantage: the more they promulgate, the more souls give up on Messiah entirely.
I myself around 2008 facetiously and satirically calculated Christ’s return in 2030 (crucifixion in AD 30 + 2000), with the real Antichrist showing up in 2023 (2030-7) to “save” us from the penultimate pseudo-Messiah who would be revealed in 2016 (2023-7). And then Donald Trump was elected in 2016… and 2024. So I’ve learned not to play with prophecy.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6d ago
My tendency is to assume post-trib but be pleasantly surprised if pre-trib or even mid-trib.
I’m no fan of the dispensationalist framework, but my steelman would be focused on he who holds back the mystery of lawlessness.
Were I required to teach a doctrine I either dispute or doubt, I’d teach the controversy and also do more studying on the what and why of it.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6d ago
Per Google Search’s AI, it’s nothing I haven’t heard here a dozen times from prolific posters:
While his early essays focus on resource allocation and overpopulation from a Malthusian ecological lens, watchdog organizations and historians trace his white nationalist label to several specific actions:
- Leadership in Nativist Groups: Hardin served on the board of directors for the Social Contract Press, a publication designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group. He was also heavily involved with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Californians for Population Stabilization.
- Funding from the Pioneer Fund: Hardin accepted funding from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation established to promote eugenics and fund controversial research into the hereditary basis of intelligence and race psychology.
- Writing and Correspondence: He contributed to far-right publications like Chronicles and The Social Contract. Decades of his private correspondence—such as letters with heiress and population control financier Cordelia Scaife May—revealed explicit support for policies aimed at maintaining a white, English-speaking majority in the U.S. and promoting racial segregation.
- Belief in Racial Homogeneity: Later in his life, Hardin argued explicitly that multicultural societies were unstable and that only racially homogenous societies could successfully manage resources over the long term.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/garrett-hardin/
The main reason the “right wing” has so many diverse policy viewpoints is that the left has a rolling omnicause, and anyone kicked out of the left will thenceforth be described as right-wing.
Reddit is firmly convinced JK Rowling is a “right-wing nut job” because she disagrees with trans ideology, despite holding fast to every other piece of the left’s policy platform. They believe famous Monty Python comedian John Cleese is now a right-winger because he's outspoken against Muslim migration to Britain.
Really, there are three axes, and you can only be a left-winger if they say you’re on the left side of all three: anti-patriarchy, anti-colonialism, and socialism. The Kochs are for unbounded immigration, which is anti-colonial, but not socialism.
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