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21hr ago
They had ceased from their previous lifestyles, though, as clarified in the preceding passage:
What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went. And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.”
The word for “changed their mind” is similar to regret or repent. They are praised because they left their old way of life to follow John; the high status elites are condemned because they did not opt to follow John, though they implicitly vowed to in their weekly prayers. The prostitute’s past is essentially blotted out by God’s mercy and totally unrelated to what Jesus thinks about them, because that’s what mercy is, acknowledging that a person can change and should no longer be judged for their past which no human change.
I think the softness of Jesus toward former prostitutes makes more sense when you note that the prostitute was despised in antiquity. They were despised by both the elites and the righteous. The prostitute and the tax collector belonged in the categories of “sell out” and “lover of money”, truly two of the worst things a person can be. The prostitute sells out her neighbor and her own God-given gifts in order to live in comfort; the tax collector sells out his neighbor for the benefit of an enemy. Today, the prostitute can be famous and the sell-out can get a podcast, so the moral math is totally different. The mercy of Jesus is the offer of a clean slate for those who change, not a new morality where we tolerate prostitutes and moneylovers.
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1d ago
Jesus associated with prostitutes
Even this concedes too much to pop culture. He spent time with them as a physician or a psychiatrist. It was for the purpose of healing and saving. His followers were more likely to promote burkas than handholding out of wedlock. Pop culture Christianity just exists within its own strange realm of fact claims.
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1d ago
For one, he is insisting on a non-central and offensive characterization of the religion. Christianity is to “Jewish guy’s apocalyptic cult” as “Bay Area EA” is to “Atheistic Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy”; I think Scott would realize why the latter might offend. It betrays a poor theory of mind to think a Christian would actually believe that this characterizes his religion. Labeling Jesus’ evangelism to prostitutes “consorting with prostitutes” is like calling Aella an international human trafficker of vulnerable women. Calling his critics Pontius Pilate is like a Christian calling EA a Sanhedrin of Christ-Killers.
It’s hard to see a charitable way to extract rhetorical force from his post. If the post instead said like, “ Oh, you're worried about a group of people who want to distribute money to those who need it […] you’re scandalized by a fellowship of individuals who want to help the poor […] you are offended by an absolute moral obligation to neighbor”, or something, then this would have some rhetorical force, as this similar to a central-ish characterization of Christ’s message. It would still be a little weird though, because not even saints liken themselves in importance to Christ with such chutzpah, so the Pilate part is best left out no matter what
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1d ago
But Goodgoy, there’s no reason to believe that they voted for Trump because of his stance on rapists. The premier 2016 magamaiden who complained about sexual assault by foreigners was Laura Southern, and she later hopped on a private jet to spend time with Known Foreign Arch-GigaRapist Andrew Tate, where she was promptly MegaRaped.
There are a lot of violent rapists, but women do not seem to care about them, and they don’t care about preventing that crime. They don’t advocate for harsher sentences and they don’t want to prevent the rape-inclined from migrating here. Neither do they want to introduce norms which prevent violent rape, like you find among the Gulf Arabs with 1/300th the rape per capita as us. It’s questionable whether women even care about justice as a concept: you don’t typically hear about a woman torrenting a book on judicial philosophy or discussing the merits and demerits of retributive justice online. They may occasionally discuss penal theories with their girlfriends but hardly of the judicial sort. It does not appear to me that they want “more justice” as evidenced by their complete and total disinterest in anything approaching an inquiry into matters of justice. I am exaggerating somewhat; there are of course women who pursue these fields in academia and produce important research. But the women yapping about the Cornell 7 are Not These Women but their opposite. They have probably never read the Wikipedia article on Blackstone’s Ratio.
I think what they care about is something more primitive and reflexive. I do not presume to understand them. But it appears that they enjoy attacking those whom they sense are the weaker coalition in power. Fraternity Bros have lost social capital in the West ever since they started being depicted as the villians of our culture in the 80s and earlier. That makes them an easy target: they are both disreputable and evil. But there is more to the story. Because the disreputable and evil hardly inspire passionate hatred among womenfolk. (They are not up in arms over Boko Haram, but Rho Chi’s harem). Perhaps the missing link in the explanation of their primitive reflexive hatred is that there is a weaker, losing coalition of men involved. This they hate, just as female chimpanzees hate such things. Among chimps, “a high proportion of coalitions involving female aggressors overall targeted males and occurred in the context of protecting a prior victim”, and in contrast to all-male or mixed gender chimp coalitions, the all-female coalitions typically attack a lower-ranked male: “among the coalitions involving only female adult [who] aggressed a male, [the victims were] mostly the lowest‐ranking adult males”. To me this makes perfect sense, because I just cannot imagine women responding in this fashion to an all-Native American or all-black fraternity. Those coalitions have more social capital in the sense that they possess the ability to destroy the reputation of any woman who goes against them. But predominately White fraternities, although they may have some abstract notion of value measured in Martha’s Vineyard acreage, have simply no social value in the grand scheme of mainstream American social life (particularly online, which is the new default social life). Consider also that the fraternity is the last vestige of the männerbund which is the last vestige of the traditional male tribal unit; this is all very elementary evolutionary.
Somewhat more speculatively: it’s possible that these women enjoy hating on the out-group while at the same time they are jealous of the accuser. A plurality of women have fantasized about gangbangs; don’t hate me, I did not make the rules and I did not design them. The fraternity brothers are pretty good looking, and are a veritable Disney TV show worth of diversity; you could almost imagine one of them in a wheelchair. So perhaps this also plays a role. Was it Orpheus who was torn limb by limb by frenzied spurned redheaded Thracian women after the death of Eurydice? No, wait, was it Pentheus after the Dionysian orgy? I’m sensing a theme here…
Who is telling you to trust Iran? Maybe I’m misinterpreting you though. We only need to trust America’s own numbers plus
• Brett Erickson, who is himself trusted by The New York Times (x3) Financial Times (x2) Associated Press (x1) The Washington Post (x13) Bloomberg (x11) Reuters (x19) Al Jazeera (x2) Politico (x5) The Hill (x3) CBS News (x1) Radio Free Europe (x8) Al-Monitor (x3) CNBC (x1) Newsweek (x2) DropSite (x1) Reason (x2) ABC News (x3)
• Gregory Brew, the Eurasia Group's own oil guy (huge), former Kissinger Visiting Fellow at the Jackson School for Global Affairs at Yale University, PhD Georgetown with a dissertation entitled “Progress & Petroleum: Oil, Development, and the American Encounter with Iran” (lmao)
As of writing my last post, another ship got “dinged”. Apparently it’s now on fire. But that’s just a “ding”, I guess, whatever that means. By the way, our soldiers were manning the ship, so they may or may have been on fire too.
Regarding the question of whether we should trust Iran, I have personally never considered it. Someone who pays for one of the expensive AIs and has time on their hands could probably check all the previous claims of Iran against verifiable information that comes out later. It’s not impossible that they tell the truth more often, as so few Americans would ever actually trust what they say that it’s genuinely in their overall interest to build rapport by telling the truth currently.
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3d ago
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3d ago
We don’t really know if it’s “a few get dinged” though. The UKMTO number is the lowest number that US/UK are willing to release so that people continue taking the figure halfways seriously. If 20 vessels were struck, we might still find only 4 on the UKMTO. If we just added +38 sailor / marine casualties for September, either Iran hit one of our important military ships or Iran has hit a number of oil vessels being operated by sailors. Apparently there were 8 sailors on one oil vessel transiting that were injured, so perhaps Iran struck about five oil vessels sufficient to cause injury. Or perhaps even the +38 casualty number is lower than the true figure. The fact that we need our own soldiers operating oil vessels in yet another tell that it’s worse in the strait than Trump would like us to believe.
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3d ago
These are UKMTO reports so we can be sure they’ve happened. They constitute an absolute minimum on the happening scale. The guy I linked in my last comment is consulted by like every news org. I would also think that Gregory Brew, “Senior Analyst Iran and Oil EurasiaGroup • Formerly ISSYale” is worth trusting, and he concurs.
What does "struck" mean? What were the names of the ships? How much damage was done? How many casualties? Many of these reports fall into the category of 1) never happened or 2) got hit by a bullet or drone with minor damage
This is all a mystery, but the 30 or so sailor casualties that were added to our total casualty figures probably means it’s a bit more than a bullet.
Since casualties weren't mentioned, I am guessing there weren't any
It’s not like these tankers are required to report everything to UKMTO right now, let alone accurate casualty figures.
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3d ago
If I’m not mistaken, our entire intelligence community believed that Iran would be able to prevent passage through the strait. If that’s what you mean by “winning”, that is still a distinct possibility. We don’t know at what expense the current high of oil transit is maintained and our casualties are quietly increasing. Houthis can still attack pipelines in KSA. If you mean that Iran would be able to defeat America in an all-out conventional military war, that’s a strawman that I personally haven’t seen expressed anywhere.
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3d ago
I think the four vessels Iran just struck is evidence that they retain the ability to threaten shipping, as there are costs to damaging ships and American marines even if the ships technically pass through the strait
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4d ago
Giving away 70,000 Met Opera tickets by lottery is, by any rational standard, retarded
I disagree. The spectacle alone increased interest in opera, probably getting ~12mil views online across platforms. The lottery artificially makes opera appear more desirable, thus increasing interest further. So if opera is socially beneficial, a 70k ticket lottery is beneficial. And I’d say opera is socially beneficial for two reasons: (1) the selected emotions are higher and more pristine, (2) it trains delayed gratification and focus because there are only a few good moments of musicality and plot interest. How else can you train someone’s attention on one long point of focus for 4.5 hours today? You have a captive audience.
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4d ago
Politics in America is an enormous iceberg where all the weightiness exists under the surface. There are votes and then there are pre-votes and you can control the pre-votes by influencing media, news, algorithms, education, ad spending, and so on through advocacy groups. Mamdani is pretty clever because he allocated some money to Partners Against the Hate, which itself funds the Arab American Association of New York which itself funds anti-Muslim awareness campaigns. Of course, every possible category of person has these advocacy groups except for the people who actually created the country and bled for it, which makes quite literally zero sense, but I foresee this changing within the decade.
Recently I’ve been looking into the Indian advocacy network and it’s fascinating, just obviously fresh off the boat Hindus with clear ties to the Indian political state working in concert to weaponize thousands of Indian-origin advocacy groups for power —
unite Americans of Indian Origin on a single national platform to strengthen collaboration, community empowerment, advocacy […] bringing all Americans of Indian Origin onto one national platform, leveraging unity to empower the community, and strengthening Indo–U.S. relations through organized collaboration and engagement […] building a strong, unified national voice for Americans of Indian Origin
In the case of Mamdani, I imagine he feels that he has to set a good example so that future Muslim politicians can point to him as an example for the next couple decades to come. I do not think he actually believes the stuff he’s saying wrt antisemitism. He’s doing his own group’s advocacy, Jews are doing their own advocacy, it’s advocacy all the way down. I guess the original Americans in this extended metaphor are the passengers on the Titanic.
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4d ago
The new weather graphics look amazing. This reminds me of a video where a streamer hears the Stormwind song for the first time.
And that is such a confusing statement to me. My brother in Christ, what was the point of playing TBC last month? This was never getting you laid or getting you paid. It's always been pixels on a screen, lusted over by us dorks, an utterly pointless but fun hobby.
Well, the pixels on the screen look better. That, and there are more people running around. Taken to the extreme, your criticism can extend to playing IRL and soon you’ll sound like a medieval Hand of Meditation: wealth shall vanish; what thou hast here another shall have…
It’s interesting that there seems to be a “biological minimum” of socialization that is simply required to enjoy an activity. Few would play chess or League all day against bots, but many would against humans, even though there is no actual socializing involved. Similarly, no one would play WoW-Retail if the realm were populated solely by bots, but there is so little socializing that it’s often indistinguishable from bots. Nevertheless, we have to know that there are other players around us.
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5d ago
To me, loving neighbor means ensuring that the commons are clean and beautiful, that drugs and bad influences are exterminated from neighborhoods, that media for those under 20 are censored for morality, ensuring men get good jobs so that marital bliss increases, ensuring food is healthy, hanging fentanyl dealers publicly, that kind of stuff. The stuff that we can reasonably predict will lead to the happiness and peace of my neighbor, especially my poorest neighbor. There’s not really any benefit to someone just yapping about how much they love their neighbor, which is just worthless signaling at best, and actually a horrible illusion at worst.
Of course, that’s called hormesis. There are some interesting studies which concluded that small amounts of radiation are protective against larger radiation exposure and are conducive to longevity. I believe there was one interesting study about an apartment complex in Korea that had constant low levels of radioactivity. But it’s been a long time since I read about this. Probably back on SSC
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5d ago
The snapchat message is not indicative of anything. Plugging ["free pussy" until:2026-05-28] into x search, having picked a random date, I see that there are three usages of the phrase which convey consensual intercourse on May 27th alone. Two examples:
• “Free Pussy scare me, u don't want ya nails done or nothing ?” — a user indicating that he is afraid of women who offer intercourse without asking for something in return, like funding for a nail salon appointment
• “Men stay to get free pussy. Convert a serious girlfriend to friends with benefit. Why throw away the pussy when you can demote it.”
There are two more references on the 26th and two more on the 25th. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no online usage of this term to refer to non-consensual intercourse. Or perhaps it refers to non-consensual activity a small percentage of the time. But yeah, “free pussy” is how AAVE-influenced young White American refers to promiscuous women.
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6d ago
You’re welcome to do a twin study on fraternity membership. You have my total support there. If modern American life involves a lot of humiliation, then training for humiliation is beneficial. Has nothing to do with Whataboutism.
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6d ago
I would say that I take Christianity seriously, not that I take my personal faith seriously, which would involve a lot more activity etc.
goodwill toward one's fellow human, love one another, if he hath all this yet hath not charity
This was historically counterbalanced with a hatred against injustice. You can read where Paul says a true Christian “abhors evil”, or where Christ is enthroned because He loves righteousness and hates evil, or where Christ commends the Ephesians for their hatred. The absence of hatred in American churches is why so many suffer from all sorts of personal and civic problems. The passion-less modern Christianity doesn’t work, and it doesn’t even bring people into the religion. It is, IMHO, “fake and gay”.
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6d ago
You’re liable to be replaced by H1B or passed over for AA hires, your tax dollars may go to a senseless war or random Somali / Haredi scams, your town might become +60 foreign in a decade, that sort of thing. There’s just a lot of humiliation involved with being an American today, so it’s good to get training in dealing with that early.
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6d ago
Than non-Greek students. But Greek members typically perform better than non-students
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6d ago
I mean that’s certainty one theory, but another theory would be that stressful experiences build brotherhood, which I recall reading in a study involving militant groups a long time ago. If fraternities selected and promoted suboptimal norms then we should expect to see members perform worse, but we see them perform better. In any case, America is one long humiliation ritual so it’s not actually a bad thing for young men to become habituated to this early, provided there is no actual harm being committed.
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7d ago
What is your favorite dungeon crawler OST and why is it King’s Field IV?
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7d ago
benefit from additional ties between people that are willing to both undergo and perpetuate abuse?
Well, doctors in residency programs and the marines provide benefits. But the hazing incidents that have been publicized recently recently do not involve abuse like consistent sleep deprivation over months, just mild discomfort like “blindfolded in basement” or “covered in condiments”. We benefit a lot from this because society benefits from fraternity (consider the importance of the mystery cults for Roman society). If you were to make these guys run into each other at maximum speed so that you can guarantee mental disturbances later in life and ~10 injuries a semester, well, this is no longer abuse, these are VIPs whom we have to fund generously and build a stadium for.
Why is that clear?
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