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  • Not a Jew, but my family's Jewish, and it's about as difficult as you'd expect. They get offended by the slightest implication that maybe Israel isn't perfect, assume I support Hamas just because I'm opposed to the IDF killing children - to clarify, I'm opposed to anyone killing children, including Hamas. We don't talk about it that much though.

  • He's considered a false prophet, certainly not in a place of honour. At least by orthodox Jews.

  • I'll mention one nobody has said yet: Kaos.

    The last episode was definitely setting up a second reason that looked interesting, but then it never happened.

  • Someone can have a fundamental belief that they shouldn't have.

    Someone can also have a derivative belief from another derivative belief, without the prior belief having to be fundamental.

  • So glad you found a working solution! To be honest, I'm a bit surprised iOS allows terminal apps 🤣 But in a good way

  • Ok, now I've clarified what beliefs you think some people assume without evidence, I would still say that believing those things isn't right. You should still have a good reason for believing what you believe, and taking the existence of a conscious creator as given is invalid.

  • So if I'm understanding you correctly it's not just that people believe the universe was created by something, but they have a specific idea of what that thing is - eg a conscious, powerful, morally good, knowledgeable being

  • So can I clarify that when you're saying

    Some people take the existence of god as a brute fact

    That you mean

    Some people assume that universe was created by something

    ?

  • The world is a terrible place.

    The world is the best place it's ever been.

    The world could be much better.

    Reference

  • I don't know who has avatars as I'm on Voyager and can't see them 🤔

  • Ok, let's take a step backwards. How are you defining 'god'?

  • Maybe a god's existence is a core belief for some people, but it shouldn't be. There shouldn't be anything you believe without a logical reason to.

  • On Voyager I can't even see avatars or custom usernames

  • Believing in something seems to imply thinking something to be true without having evidence for it - otherwise it would be knowledge, a justified true belief. So I know a couple things, like that I exist as a conscious being, and have practical empirical knowledge of the rest of the sensory world too.

  • ABBA, C418, Green Day, Queen

  • What does have to do with the energy efficiency of eating your own children?

  • How is that ever going to provide more energy than you put into it? That makes Matrix levels of sense.

  • The only one I know that might count is the Stardrop Saloon. And its theme is ok, not anything special.

  • Thanks! Edited