youtube's actually blocked a bunch of his videos in Australia because they violate a gag order on a gambling regulator who basically said 'nobody follows the regulations lol'.
there was no good reason for the gag order to start with but the guy's dying of cancer and they're trying to litigate him into the ground. he violated the gag order because it'll take months-years to dispute it legally and he has like 6 months to live
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Originally posted by Meikai
Look, I'm not a complete asshole. I like FriendlyJordies and our politics probably couldn't be less compatible. Difference there is, he's snarky but… less so, and I also respect what he does: exposés, journalism. This is also why, as loathe as I am to admit it, I have also appreciated John Oliver from time to time (he's way too snarky and doesn't do quite the same kind down-and-dirty journalism that I respect Jordies for though, even if he is probably the closest thing you could find on a mainstream TV broadcast).
not many people can say their house got firebombed for doing journalism
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Originally posted by Cowboy2013
Just because there was a God doesn't mean he gives a fuck about you or your happiness, but a lack of religion will result in society that we see today. I don't really see the real "god" as that though.
And when I talk about belief I believe it's good for the individual but I think the belief could give a god power in some way. Maybe the belief gives birth to a consciousness that we know as a god.
if you want to be cynical it makes the most sense that major religious doctrine was conceived as a way to communicate the 'correct' way to behave socially to masses of people who are unable to think directly on why they should return the trolley instead of just leaving it next to their parking spot
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Originally posted by mmQ
In the meantime I like to just roam the streets looking for people with just a glimmer of hope in their eyes and inviting them over to convince them that theyre fucking stupid and we should talk about it all day long on my atheism podcast
I think that's how amazing atheist started out and now he's banned from twitch for sticking pickles in his ass on stream
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In the meantime I like to just roam the streets looking for people with just a glimmer of hope in their eyes and inviting them over to convince them that theyre fucking stupid and we should talk about it all day long on my atheism podcast
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Originally posted by Meikai
In fairness to God, I was envisioning a world where even reddit atheists go to heaven. It's just the fence sitting fuckos like me who don't get into heaven, but especially the ones to whom god's existence is made apparent and for whom that somehow still is not enough. I could see that irritating me if I was even a little pompous, and deities have every right to be.
Yeah I myself told God hey man like no disrespect but I'm not gonna go to church or like really actively believe in you anymore but also it's nothing personal and if you're real you already know all this so if you just please forgive me and my feeble human brain and not let me get raped by the devil for all of eternity if I am in fact wrong, that would be much appreciated. I'm hoping that covers my bases.
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Originally posted by Meikai
I can't find the meme, but it was basically making fun of humanity for collectively analogizing existence with whatever the cool current thing they invented is. The universe is a word, a book, a mechanism, a machine, a reel of film, a computer, a program on a computer - these all seem equally plausible to me as explanations for all this go. [gesturing at existence]
it's a complicated thing to think about; a metaphor helps explain it. I say a machine specifically because it's something with a single function, to produce increasingly complex things - it doesn't 'think' and it doesn't 'care', it just makes.
if it produces things that are increasingly complex that deteriorate over time and space, the things that are 'closer' to the centre could potentially be 'young gods' that also hold power over the broken things that are 'further' away
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I have this idea I haven't really fleshed out that 'God' is a machine at the centre of the universe with the sole purpose of churning out things that are increasingly complex and/or novel (they're not the same thing)
as things are created they drift away from the centre and degrade over time and space, eventually being dissolved to the most base components via entropy, eventually re-absorbed by that machine to be yet again ordered into something more novel
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Originally posted by Meikai
Folks like me can only dream of being this efficient at sin (partly because I'm personally more engaged with sloth - sloth is a helluva drug).
The problem with you is that even though you don't fit into white western normality quite right, you haven't started hating and resenting that normality and letting that hatred and resentment dictate your life and motivate all your actions. For these people being degenerate brings them religious pleasure, it's a fuck you to the normality that is oppressing them *somehow*. They're motivated by hatred for normal white people (a group that barely even exists), and have learned that being as offensive as possible to the people they hate gives their miserable and sterile lives meaning.
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I like to go to the local hardware store DECKED TO THE BRIM in bud light paraphernalia wearing three masks (also bud light themed) and picketing outside the store to bring back the covid vaccine tenfold BIDEN 2024 ERASE OUR STUDENT LOANS WE DESERVE IT!!
I used to like those little 8 pack pounders like 9 years ago of bud light then I switched to the same thing bud HEAVY then I switched yellow mango carts now I've been on 12 packs of BIG WAVE for at least a year now if I go to the beer store I get the EXACT same thing every single time with no exceptions I'm a man of principle and other words
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Originally posted by Cowboy2013
Just because there was a God doesn't mean he gives a fuck about you or your happiness, but a lack of religion will result in society that we see today. I don't really see the real "god" as that though.
And when I talk about belief I believe it's good for the individual but I think the belief could give a god power in some way. Maybe the belief gives birth to a consciousness that we know as a god.
Well right and I don't necessarily not believe in a god I'm just talking about the one whose "Word of God" explains that he does in fact care about us and loves us unconditionally (but also won't prevent baby rape)
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Originally posted by mmQ
Yeah this reminds me of the ole "if God is real I wouldn't want to worship him anyway if this is the shit he's cool with allowing to happen to us." It's a fair point tbh fam. Life is full of horrible fates and tragedies that religious folk have to justify as "God can't interfere it's just how it is" while simultaneously balancing "God loves you unconditionally and it's all His plan." Basically God would have to know exactly the outcome of everything that he is creating therefore God knew babies would get horribly raped and went ahead with it anyway. I guess I'm talking more specifically Christianity as I don't enough about any other religion but nonetheless anyone who believes in an all-powerful creator has to rationalize this sort of thing somehow.
Just because there was a God doesn't mean he gives a fuck about you or your happiness, but a lack of religion will result in society that we see today. I don't really see the real "god" as that though.
And when I talk about belief I believe it's good for the individual but I think the belief could give a god power in some way. Maybe the belief gives birth to a consciousness that we know as a god.
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Originally posted by Meikai
I believe God is real in the same way I believe the sky is blue. Which is to say I have empirically based evidence suggesting both things may be true, but if I'm not actively looking at God or the sky then I have no beliefs one way or the other. "God is real" and "the sky is blue" were both things I believed equally true at one point or another, but I don't believe (or actively disbelieve!) that they are true.
I have no faith, and that suits me. Neither the faith to believe in God's existence, nor the faith to believe God doesn't exist. If God's real, I really hope he's not the kind who thinks capacity for faith is of the utmost importance. Would be a real shame if everyone got into Heaven except people who weren't entirely credulous.
Yeah this reminds me of the ole "if God is real I wouldn't want to worship him anyway if this is the shit he's cool with allowing to happen to us." It's a fair point tbh fam. Life is full of horrible fates and tragedies that religious folk have to justify as "God can't interfere it's just how it is" while simultaneously balancing "God loves you unconditionally and it's all His plan." Basically God would have to know exactly the outcome of everything that he is creating therefore God knew babies would get horribly raped and went ahead with it anyway. I guess I'm talking more specifically Christianity as I don't enough about any other religion but nonetheless anyone who believes in an all-powerful creator has to rationalize this sort of thing somehow.
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