Never seen the word egregor before. Not shocking it exists, it seems like a painfully self evident concept to me someone else must have thought of it also.
Grace is certainly something modern Christians lack.
Less wrong talks about the pain of changing your mind a lot. One point they spell out that we often overlook, you know you can live to bear the truth because you already are living with the truth. All that changes is your acceptance of it. Fancy way of saying I completely agree with your last paragraph.
It would not be legal as a new mass produced vehicle. Safety regulations require those computers.
Only way to do this legally now is buy older used or build and register a kit car yourself.
Like I said yesterday, we need more hard trade skills people and fewer podcasters. Wanna pay me to help you build your own car?
It's more the idea that gods are as real and powerful in this world as the number and dedication of their followers.
Few believers, the god is weak. No more believers, the god dies.
So Jesus may not have even been a real historical figure, and no supernatural god figure behind him. He is still a very powerful god because he has many followers acting independently but in concert based on what they believe he teaches.
The Jesus you like is different than the Jesus of most modern Christians. Literally 2 different gods as I see it. Your Jesus is far less powerful also because theirs has more followers.
One of my favorite gods is Odin. Of course he has very few followers today. I think that shows with the amount of anti intellectualism and expert hatred we see around us. We may have some science worshippers today but science without wisdom has many faults. Those faults are exploited to help drive people to convert and be more devout in the anti expert religion.
Basically Instagram and the middle east.
Guns don't kill people, the government does.
-Dale Gribble
My argument for simulation theory:
Every simulation we create is either a completely aesthetically focused dress up game ignoring every other aspect of the world around you or an ultra violence mass murder simulator.
Definitely a hobby with its own lingo. Not too confusing once you figure out that some of it is lock brands and models.
I was very excited. Got 4 and got stuck multiple times before.
I have the new covert instruments evo 4 picks on the way. They are .020 and include the mctickler, really looking forward to giving that a try. I'm using a .025 short hook now.
Did some #pickstr time while watching firefly tonight. Pretty pleased.
Warmed up with my master 150 and 570 and my abus 55/40.
Then I went for my baby American 1100s. I have 8 of them that I removed pin stacks 2 and 4 from so my n00b ass has a chance. Previously I had only ever picked 4 of the 8. Tonight I got 7 of the 8 of them. High cut 5s with low cut 1 on a lot of them, tough to get that 5th pin. I think a thinner pick might be helpful with that keyway.
IP5M-B1186EW-28MM
I've got one so far. I want to get it into zoneminder before adding more. I like it so far.
Yeah, I'm a ham and I work in wireless communications. My cameras will all be wired with no exceptions.
Are you familiar with the Neil Gaiman book American Gods or the TV adaptation by the same name? Other than the supernatural aspects, it is the best model I know of to summarize my view of religion.
In the Russell's Teapot + Bayes theorem sense I am definitely an atheist. In another sense I'm polytheistic to the extreme of believing in all gods. The atheist belief is a well known model many take seriously. I don't know of anyone other than me who takes the American Gods polytheism model seriously. If you aren't familiar with that source material it might not make much sense to hear someone declare they are an atheist polytheist who believes all gods are real.
I laughed many times. Remember, accurate retelling but by modern atheists. Parody or satire aren't quite right, it is far more true to the source material than those styles.
I didn't say you are. I didn't put together until much later that my frustrations with Christians were part of my realization that none of my morality actually came from Christianity or the Bible. It was cultural and derived from first principles of protecting human self determination.
Maybe you'll find different. That moment of "none of you really follow this book" was quickly followed by "I'm not following it either and I don't think I would be a better person if I did" for me.
Nostr contains a large group of people convinced Mandibles is an accurate telling of our near future, myself included.
If we truly believe that, our ratio of podcaster and coder worship to farmer, plumber, welder, electrician and other trades worship is way way out of wack.
#40hpw of podcasts just keeps going as a meme. How many hours this week did you spend on improving your survivability in an economic collapse? Physical skills or trades practiced? Security of your property improved? Food access? Water access? Local connections with other builders?
The agora isn't going to build itself.
It was interesting. I don't want to spoil it for you. Lots of coverage of the years of Jesus life that the current church says there are no records of.
If your day went well, you are welcome. I kept Murphy busy at my place all day.
Couple of weeks ago we added a motion sensing flood light by the front door. 30 minute install and all seems nice.
We were happy enough with the first one we decided to replace the light at the back door with an identical motion sensing light.
It took me 6 hours to install the second light.
I'm putting up some cameras on my property. It was harder than it should be to get a camera that doesn't send video straight to some cloud. Not impossible, but harder than it should be.
At what inflation rate does it stop making sense to give people prices? Earlier I said you could get started lock picking correctly for under $75. If that price holds for 2 years probably fine. If that number is +10% within a year was it useful to include? At some point listing a price becomes meaningless because the real world price changes so fast the reader can't act on it fast enough to get that price.
I think nostr:nprofile1qqsd3uut39959acqsvzua0chkjyj2e20y2ccp3vxrwq3g8uqenmjsjqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhk6un9vd5x2etnv5hryvtdd9kzumt99ulagzzn and I started that tag and it just occurred to me to follow it too.
If you are curious about joining us on #pickstr but don't know where to start to pick your first lock, here is my advice.
I like the Genesis pick set from covert instruments and a couple of master locks to start. The short hook is the pick in that set you should start with.
Avoid clear or cut-away locks because they change the feel and can actually be harder. New locks dedicated to picking are a good idea. They will give better feedback. It is possible to damage a lock so that it can no longer work with the key by picking it, so do not start with a lock you need to use.
Master 1, 3, 5, 7 are great to start and readily available. It doesn't matter which one they all have the same beginner friendly core. Don't be intimidated by the "security rating" master gives their locks, that is purely a physical attack rating and has nothing to do with picking. A master 141 is slightly harder but you could definitely start here if you felt confident. A master 150 is an excellent introduction to security pins, hard enough I would not recommend it as a first lock.
You will get better faster by picking 3 keyed different locks in a round than picking the same lock 3 times. Each lock has quirks so by picking the same master 1 3x you are learning the lock. Picking 3 different master 1s 1x each is better for learning to pick as a generalized skill. Shuffle them too rather than picking in the same order over and over.
By the time you pick a master 150 you'll probably have a good idea if you want to keep going with the hobby.
All in, that pick set and 3x brand new basic master locks can be had for under $75. If you youtubed a basic how to before starting and have typical hand dexterity (meaning still have all your fingers and no disability like Parkinson's) you should be into a master 141 at least once within your first hour of active picking.
There is so much more to it as you advance but I'll stop there for now. That will get you from never held a pick to first lock picked. It also won't set you up to need all new picks to pick the next difficulty of locks like a cheaper Amazon pick set might.
#pickstr update. Fidget picking back and forth with a abus 55/40 and a master 150 that I pocketed before heading out tonight. 1 tension and 1 pick with me.
That may be. I'm still not answering, which I will remind you is not legally an admission of guilt.
Two books popular in the atheist community are "God is disappointed in you" and "apocrypha now"
They both use the same shtick. The religious texts but the stories are told by an atheist in modern language instead of ancient language or modern language selected by a figure in the religion who is incentivized to keep you believing.
The first is the Bible, the second is the Apocrypha. I bring them up because the Apocrypha is books that at some point claimed to be a part of the bible but were axed by various human committees at various times.
You seem like you may be interested in "Apocrypha Now" and or the original texts.
I went through a lot of what you went through on my path to atheism. Happy to talk to a fellow traveler who is curious and genuinely searching instead of just searching for confirmations of what they already believe.
Heresy and semantic stop signs pretty much sum up the ways Anti-Theists feel than religion is a source of harm in society.
Personally I also think about house cats.
They are genetically wild, no difference unlike dogs which have genetic changes from wolves. They are in a state of stunted emotional development. They shift their dependence from their parents to their owner.
This is why a pet dog let loose dies but a pet cat let loose will be fine, the cats finally grow up.
As an atheist and an anarchist I realize that both of those are moving on from and gaining independence from additional layers of parental figures. It adopting those beliefs feels a lot like a late additional stage of growing up. You also start to often see statists and religious people appealing to those figures a lot like siblings yelling "But Mom! Make them stop I don't like it! "
Just found myself reading about "Donatism" - a "heresy" in North Africa during the time of Augustine.
Their so-called "heresy" was simply that apostates shouldn't be priests. There was a period in which Christians were allowed to return to paganism, and many did so. Then, Constantine became emperor, and the political situation was favorable, so the apostates returned to Christianity. Donatism simply said that they shouldn't be allowed to lead congregations - and I think that makes sense. That makes sense for any group and any set of beliefs. Why would you trust a proven traitor?
But Augustine decided that these donatists were different enough to call them "heretics" and murder them. Here's this carefully worded blurb from wikipedia :
And here's the whole wikipedia page :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatism
It is quite obvious that this page has been doctored up to avoid the truth - the early church, during the time of Constantine, was built on the mass murder of Christians. Who is incentived to alter history?
Augustine is the most disgusting early "father" from the early political church. I encourage anyone to dig into this evil character, especially if you are being influenced by a version of a church which venerates him.
This, unfortunately, is the history of the church, in summary :
Christians from the time of Christ until the Council of Nicea had very diverse beliefs, with many interpretations of Christ's words. But Constantine wanted one thing, above all else - casus belli. In 325 AD, he got a perfect, infinitely applicable casus belli. By defining dogma, they could label local variations of Christians as "heretics" and then move against them with force, without opposition from other Christians. Neutralizing Christian opposition was the key to political power - Christians had been aggressively in opposition to Roman power structures. Look into the Christian mob that murdered Hypatia, for a well documented example. The creation of the centralized power structure of "the church" was seen as a victory by most Christians, but the reality is that it was used primarily to murder Christians. What began in 325 AD was a constantly narrowing purity test, where an authority figure redefines spiritual vocabulary and then the congregation must prove their piety by supporting a new level of absurdity - exactly the same process which led modern leftists from opposing state power 30 years ago to now using state power against their enemies and absurd movements like BLM. Same phenomenon. Over 1700 years, the purity tests have continued and moved Christianity so far away from Jesus' teachings that now Christians have zero understanding of Christ or any spiritual concepts, and if you even repeat what Jesus actually said, right after reading it during a bible study, they will scream at you (this happened to me - two screamers simultaneously).
There ya go. In a nutshell... This is why real Christians stay away from churchy people.
I was just in another conversation talking about the Anti-Theist movement. The core of it was weaponizing passages of scriptures against the adherents to those religions.
The movement was led by atheists who felt that religion is a net harm to society and progress, so a little different. The point that most Christians are unfamiliar with most of the Bible stands though. Many atheists argue that reading the bible is the best way to make an atheist.
Someone attacking you causes people to dig in, so for the most part the movement has died even though many atheists still believe that religion causes harm.
Nice try fed.
I'm wondering if you are a kid now. I'm clearly a teenager but my talking points are 15 years out of date. 4 year olds who have mastered Dawkins soundbites but don't learn anything new before they turn 20 are common after all.
The four horseman days weren't an atheist movement, it was Anti-Theist. The point was to attack religious people with the faults of their religion. I have gone out of my way to avoid running down the litany of biblical instructions that are appalling to modern christians in this thread.
I felt the need to point out one of those bible rules that we ignore because of our culture to make the point we fit our religion to our cultural morals not the other way around. I picked mixed fibers because it was the least offensive example. If you truly were a part of the Anti-Theist movement you know how dark I could have gone there. I have clearly updated my approach.
You can't say no one cares I'm an atheist. People in this thread said that anyone who doesn't believe in god would obviously be guilty of a variety of moral faults. Some of them pretty offensive to me. I joined in here to say "I'm an atheist and I do none of those things you accuse us of." I even made a post on my timeline about being open about your atheism so those strawmen aren't the only atheist people know.
You explicitly said you believe different races have different moral reasoning capabilities and European genes are better at it. That doesn't even require wokeness, that's 100 year old dictionary definition racism. Stating that you believe in facts that you explicitly said you believe in isn't poisoning the well. You were working those same racist talking points at the time so it wasn't even off topic.
I thought so but I may have zoned out for a minute in there. I was really curious to see side by side to testosterone, a1c, cholesterol, and anemia numbers but I didn't catch any of them.
I know some would argue that the other reveal at the end would ruin those number but they shipped you the bugs so health effects of all bugs eaten should be included.
What happened to the follow up bloodwork?