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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

I’ve enjoyed reading much of the discussion in this thread - so please don’t see the following as in any way “ganging up”, I’d just like to hear more of your thoughts. You say:

Your assertions, to be true, require that He could only create things with either free will and evil or neither. That doesn't sound reasonable for a Being to Whom all of existence is ascribed

I don’t really see the flaw here? Forgive the analogy, but let’s imagine two different video games (potential universes God could have made). In one of the video games, the player follows a straight line of progression, going from event A>B>C and reaches the games “ending”. In the other game, at each event (A, B, C) the player is presented with a “choice” to pick the “good option” or the “bad option”. Depending on which options you pick, you can get a “good ending”, “bad ending”, or “mixed ending”.

In the first game, there is no free will. Thus there is no “bad choices” nor a “bad ending”. Thus “evil” (atleast our analogy thereof) doesn’t exist without the free will to choose it.

You seem to propose that God “could have” designed a game with free will but which simultaneously lacks the capacity for evil. This seems like a contradiction to me, why not to you?

Feel free to ignore the wrapping of the analogy if you want

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Graphenium 4 points ago +4 / -0

That’s fair, and I upvoted your initial comment with your criticisms of the documentary. Perhaps im in the wrong thread, but I’d much rather discuss the topic of the documentary than the documentary itself

Anyway, cheers, maybe I’ll make a post on what I see as the “reasonable” take on chemtrails soon or something

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

But you kind of are…the topic is about chemicals being released into the atmosphere which have unknown and potentially harmful effects to humans - you respond to the topic, knowing full well that multiple governments have admitted to releasing potentially harmful chemicals into the atmosphere (i.e. “geoengineering”), but instead of acknowledging that reality and operating within it, you present this other reality (“mUh contrails aren’t chemtrails! MUh secret program to outfit all commercial airliners with secret chemical releasers is unbelievable!”) which no one (here, on this forum) was asking you to believe

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

I still wonder how you all found out

🤔

Hmm…almost as if…your account getting nuked set off a Return of the Jedi style celebration site wide

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

But the chemtrail conspiracy claim is that your average plane in the sky (i.e., commerical travel flight) is secretly emitting chemicals

This is a straw man. That might be the weakest version of the chemtrail claim, but it is far from the only or even the most commonly made version. We should be steel-manning our “opposition” in this forum, otherwise we’re basically just ranting retardedly like they do on r/Atheism

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Graphenium 3 points ago +3 / -0

Good call - i said as much to him when he tried to spam me with the link in DMs, but it’s important to note publicly for people who might not know his reputation

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Graphenium 1 point ago +1 / -0

i cropped the image to remove vital context like the date and the person being replied to because I definitely didn’t fall for a fake screenshot the mossad posted

Ok lmao, cool story bro

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ordo Ab Chao, now where have I heard that one before!

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think he’s a (relatively) normal guy who married a jewish chick and adopted her black daughter (aka a normal guy who moved to Hollywood and absorbed some of the attitudes and ethics that surrounded him aka libtardism by osmosis).

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Graphenium 4 points ago +4 / -0

Don’t forget the most recent epstein files show that he had secured some kind of influence over the entire project via his “Media Lab” project at MIT:

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/epstein-files-reveal-desire-to-steer-bitcoin-via-its-developers/

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Graphenium 3 points ago +3 / -0

How do you define (for example) porn? Do you think you could come up with a definition of porn such that you could ban “porn” on the forum and no one would ever be upset or take issue with your definition?

The above is a hypothetical to get you to consider the larger point. There’s a reason why even the Supreme Court defined porn as “you know it when you see it”. Because you really can’t legislate this kind of shit in the manner you’re attempting to.

Obviously “porn posts” have never been a problem on these sites (beyond blatant malicious actors using them as an attack vector). The relavent issue here is “low effort/slop posts”. And yes, “you know it when you see it” / “it’s up to moderator discretion” is literally as good as it can get. There’s no magic words you can say which will set everything in perfect order.

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Graphenium 5 points ago +5 / -0

The reason people supported your modship was to deal with the spam. That means the jeet, the imp, and JG5 (and their alts). Nobody was clamoring for word- and tone-policing. Now you’re allowing yourself to become a prop/tool/cudgel for the very people who have been spamming this place to death.

Pick your battles wisely

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

I just meant the recent volatility made gold look speculative (more so than before at least), not trying to compare it to fiat or any other assets really, just wrap my head around the precious metals market itself. I know that historically there have been periods of time like this, where speculation/banker chicanery leads to crazy spot prices (like the Hunt Brothers silver scam in the 80s). My comments here are basically just generic curiosity on the subject

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

Search up a YouTube video of potassium chlorate fires:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iXLz1vg3Th8

It produces purple flames. Similar effects with other combustable compounds.

It might all be fake, but I’ve never seen convincing evidence to support that claim. The furthest anyone seems to be able to get is “b-b-but that’s not possible!”

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

Fair points… would you buy more of either metal at these current prices?

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Graphenium 2 points ago +2 / -0

But even gold is now speculative, so what’s left that qualifies as “sound money”?

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