sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
7hr ago
Do angels have free will in Catholicism too? If not, I do not understand how come Satan could defy God without that being a part of his nature. And as far as I recall the Serpent tempted Eve before the Fall, so whatever flaw caused the Serpent to introduce sin into the world could not have come from man's original sin - if indeed it was a flaw.
sun_the_second
1d ago
Not over space distances.
sun_the_second
1d ago
You could write a whole genre of fiction about that.
sun_the_second
2d ago
Thanks for the well wishes, but my question was not a veiled request for personal life advice, as I've already noted downthread. I'm meant it quite literally: you must be aware that even if all people were capable, they could not all have businesses. (Disregarding weird economical models where everyone is their own boss but also has a side job where they work for someone else). So, how does your advice to go full Christian provider husband for a homemaker 10 years your junior work for those who are not so financially independent and stable? How much credit can those "little islands of sanity" really give to Christianity, and how much do they owe to being, simply put, rich?
There's a separate question of the self-honesty of converting, but that's a separate question.
You misunderstand. I'm not asking for advice on my own life. I'm asking how TitaniumButterfly's picture of idyllic newly-converted affluent Christian life translates to those who are not already ahead in life.
This reminds me of the instagram Orthodox who are selling a picture of "harmony" in their country villa with their handmade cheese or whatever.
But if you do want to talk about me, then I'll tell you I don't see myself experiencing a genuine retvrn to faith any time soon, whether I become a stable business owner or not, and even if I went to church to pick me up a homely wife, I would still not call myself a Christian in the privacy of my own mind.
sun_the_second
2d ago
is objectively better than just being one person because of the risk dilution
That's assuming I consider my genome myself in terms of risks. If you could fill a sector of the universe with indestructible inscriptions of your full genome, memories, personality etc., would you consider your life immortalized enough to keel over and die immediately after? I would not.
And sure, the top 100 recommended channels on youtube or tiktok dominate most of memespace of most people, but not all of it.
sun_the_second
2d ago
What do you think?
If you're asking about the legacy of having children, then it seems like
some part of yourself. I’m not just talking genetics here, though that is a large part
is hopelessly diluted somewhere after your grandchildren. How many people today remember seeing their great-grandfather, or at least hearing anecdotes and stories about him from their parents and grandparents that stuck? As for genetics, even if we assume that each person's genetic code is one of a kind and unique, that's only half of what makes you unique in your son, 1/4th in your grandson, 1/8th in your great-grandson and so on, on average. As it stands, the parts of the genome that make your great-grandson like you are entirely indistinguishable from the same parts that millions others have.
Compare that with numerous small things that someone with an audience of 10 to 100 said or made at some point of your life that you still remember. Those are people who had more impact on your life than your genetic progenitor.
If objective, lasting legacy is the goal, I find having children to be one of the least efficient ways to do it, for a commoner. As for biological drives, those are equally satisfied whether you hire a nanny or not.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I don't suppose you think he wants the child to have a mother?
sun_the_second
2d ago
Or the person could have both, and the offspring-lottery tax bonus on top off it.
My point being, whoever feels like 20k of tax returns/year is big enough money to flip them towards having a kid is probably too risk averse to gamble, and whoever is rich enough that it's merely one of their calculated risks is going to have a kid or not based on other concerns.
One can increase the birthrate of the smart while decreasing the birthrate of the dumb, it's merely lack of political will in the current status quo.
Lack of political will sounds like cope. If one can do it and it is beneficial, there would be a will.
But indeed, 4+ TFR of those with <90 IQ is more dysgenic than sub-1 TFR of those with >120 IQ if your population has a mean IQ of 100 with baseline TFR of 2.
More dysgenic compared to having no -genic at all?
sun_the_second
2d ago
How does it work for those who don't have a business?
where you redefine the whole neighborhood as a collective private house so you don't have to follow the rules of the sabbath; both shameless and clearly against the spirit of the whole thing
But was "you can't flip a light switch" really against the spirit of Shabbat? Or carrying an object from one particularly subjectively defined area to another, for that matter.
sun_the_second
3d ago
In any case, are we trying to argue that Keira Knightley, poor thing, has more attractive boobs than a typical page 6 British model? (swimsuit pictures)
It's a fair contest.
I've read the article before and it's failed to convince me that amine boobs on anime girls translate to real life preferences in such a way that A<B<C<D<DD<E<F<G<H<... But of course, feel free to write me off as someone who "tries to perform high class boob taste" or "female pattern of attraction".
I've reached the (an?) ending of Blue Prince, a roguelike escape-the-room game. The premise is that you have to reach the final room of the manor your uncle left you in order to inherit it... except the layout is shuffled every day. In each run, you have a limited number of "steps" (spent by going from room to room) and explore the manor anew, drafting new rooms from a selection of three at every doorway.
Overall, it's likely the most fun I've ever had playing an escape-the-room game. There are many puzzles and threads to chase, and I haven't even discovered all room types, let alone solved everything there is in the game. The puzzles for the most part lack the infamous "moon logic" of puzzle games and the way to solve them is pretty intuitive - it's figuring out the mechanics and finding the solution across multiple randomized runs that's going to be hard.
The most glaring flaw is the lack of saving mid-run - if you want to close the game, you have to end the current delve. Also, some object interactions are downright sluggish and it's very frustrating when there's something routine you want to do with a terminal in a particular room but it still takes a literal "60 seconds" minute.
sun_the_second
4d ago
If my date steals someone's scarf for me, I give it about 1% chance of "she's a master consequentialist who has calculated the utilons of someone potentially coming back for the scarf and finding it gone vs. the utilons of me being comforted" and 99% of "she's from casual petty crime culture and on top of that is 'agentic' enough to participate in it even as a woman".
The latter category isn't someone whose company I want to keep. There's the bro wisdom of "if she'd cheat with you she'll cheat on you" and while "if she'd act like a low trust society specimen for your benefit she'll act like a low trust society specimen at your expense" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well, it feels plausible enough.
sun_the_second
4d ago
Or the hypothetical future time oriented person could get a 20k raise per year without having to have a kid.
Sub-1 TFR of 120 IQ children or 4+ TFR of 90 IQ children, which one is really more dysgenic?
sun_the_second
5d ago
I'd expect something less like genocide and more like anti-homeless hostile architecture turned up to 11. Don't need to kill the useless eaters if they can't take the resources your drone factories loot for yourself.
sun_the_second
5d ago
I'm not convinced that the Chinese are so different as a people that they don't try to get exactly what they want exactly the way they want, whenever they can. Just look at the way media is altered for their market.
The distinction I've seen more often was more like:
Timmy: this card is cool because it's a big, often expensive, flashy effect (7/7 angel)
Johnny: this card is cool because it can synergize with 5 other cards in an obscure way (that one wizard with "if you would lose from having no cards to draw, you win")
Spike: this card is cool because it's a plus tempo drop that raises my win percentage (that one meta 3/3 flying vehicle thopter)
The appreciation for fluff was offloaded to one of the secondary classifications (Vorthos? Or was that the one who cared about card artwork?)
sun_the_second
8d ago
I prompted Deepseek with:
In your criticism, be direct and even-handed, do not provide boilerplate politeness and compliments.
and it replied dryly enough, although don't quote me on the quality of its advice.
sun_the_second
8d ago
According to the anecdotes, while men are often harassed in games for the perceived reasons of being bad, standing out, picking the wrong character, etc.; women have "sounding female on mic" on top of that.
sun_the_second
9d ago
If you want to take the argument towards this direction, killing one person is worse than killing multiple people because one person was the only representative of their specific genotype.
It falls apart because no one cares about one person's specific genotype except possibly that person. A few more people care about a tiny no-name village's distinction. A lot more people care about the Jews as an ethnicity and culture.
sun_the_second
9d ago
A few months ago someone explained to you how it's plausible and I don't recall you replying to it. And now you resort to "ask chatgpt".
sun_the_second
9d ago
That's interesting, any examples of what literature elements you don't like?
sun_the_second
10d ago
From what I understand there's a rather high variance. There's Oxxxymiron and then there's rhyming "nigga" with "nigga".
"Malevolence is a lack/destruction is a privation" sounds like it's only true in such abstract terms as to be a useless definition. Sure, I suppose if God creates a lightning bolt that happens to strike a human dead then God has technically not held anything back from the human that the human otherwise would get. More energy has been introduced into the system!
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