If God exists because you (otherwise) don't know how the world came to be, you haven't discovered something about the world or about God. You have just given a name to your ignorance.

"Now everything that becomes or is created must of necessity be created by some cause, for without a cause nothing can be created."

If you are willing to say that God is uncreated (and therefore doesn't need a cause), why are you unwilling to say that reality is uncreated?

https://nostter.app/Kenberrymd@primal.net this link should get people to view your nostr profile without needing to type in anything

What caused God?

Kamala: To accelerate the collapse

Kamala: For communists/progressives/neocons/fascists, etc who think the Empire can still be saved

Trump: For liberals/paleocons/libertarians, etc who think the Republic can still be saved

Against everyone except the Saudis... and the Israelis

What would you have sold at?

Philosophy:

Lao Tzu - Dao de Ching

Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics

Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (I was first influenced by Rand's fiction which is good to get a sense of her spirit, especially Anthem which is concise, but for a non-fiction treatment I think Peikoff best)

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but ignore his baseless protests to reject the moral implications of his scientific work and his pleas to retain Christian morality)

Language:

Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication

Investing:

Ben Graham - The Intelligent Investor

Jim Rogers - Hot Commodities

Money & Banking:

G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (among many others, but this was first)

I don't imagine that I am holier than others, but I do not find myself automatically evil or sinful either. I think it is unhealthy for those of the Abrahamic faiths to find themselves automatically sinful.

I am of the belief that evil is best considered a deprivation of good.

The base of my moral system is my own vitality - ultimately culminating in reproduction. Thus I value my own survival and the survival of my progeny above all else. Then I place a secondary value on the life and success of my kin, and then ethnicity, race, species, and so on.

So, my sense of moral concern is very much the heat map with the bright spot in the center.

I suspect that Christian morality was historically successful in part because it suppressed conflict behaviors (among other purposes). I don't believe that I need to adopt self-sacrificial morality in order to avoid conflict (in fact, I think a morality of sacrifice engenders conflict). Instead, I seek trade (more generally, mutually beneficial engagement) or disengagement (if mutual benefit is not possible) which I believe are more productive (better for me) behaviors.

I won't continue a conversation with personal attacks. Good day.

"you can love others and even your enemies like you love yourself"

twisted

"and even more than you love yourself"

evil

somebody's gotta rape these blue-haired feminists and it ain't gon be me

(Currency(Fiat(Crypto(Bitcoin))))

(Money(Gold)(Silver))

metal disks

If I owe you a thousand dollars that's my problem

If I owe you a million dollars that's your problem

If he's not Catholic personally he's not the Pope

He can sin and remain Catholic

He cannot reject Catholic dogma personally and remain Catholic

"not strictly human"

I see you've been reading your Talmud

Must not be the real Pope then

Yes, of course, and I would not be willing to die for some random stranger.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

The consequence of Christian, altruistic, self-sacrificial morality is the "liberal" heatmap in which everyone is expected to sacrifice himself for the Greater Spotted Newt.

The consequence of traditional (pagan) morality is that you care more about your grandma than Greater Spotted Newts (or for that matter Africans).

This may be confusing because "liberals" (in fact leftist) are "atheist" (in fact post-theist but still deeply religious and specifically Christian) and conservatives are "Christian", but Thomas Aquinas introduced a rational, worldly, Aristotelian element into Christianity which post-theist radical puritans (aka leftists) stripped out.

https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

Now one for you: Is it morally wrong to prefer your own grandmother's well-being over that of some random African? Is it morally wrong to prefer your own well-being over that of some random African?

Not now, but I'm hoping to have kids