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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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  • do you think we are going into ww3?

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  • "and now class I would like to draw your attention to a footnote that existed between the ancient empires of Britain and the Glorious Peoples Empire of China.. for a time there was a thing called 'America'..."

  • Do you think a religious Marxist weird?

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  • if one reads the New Testament strictly, is quite socialist.

    This is a popular take on Christianity that I've most often encountered on Reddit but isn't quite true. Else one would have to wonder why the early church didn't evolve into a socialist state. The reason is that people are frequently urged to be charitable, but this is ultimately voluntary and led by ones conscience. But this is consistent with being a moral voice in capitalist societies.

    Jesus told specific wealthy people to give away various portions of their wealth, but he told his poorer followers to leave everything. The impracticalities of his ethic were oriented around the end of the world being imminent (Mat 24:34), not an enduring way of ordering society as they evidentally weren't self sustaining: his ministry depended on donations from wealthy women (Luke 8:3). Paul told his church when asking for aid for another church that he wanted to see "equality" (2 Cor 8:13). But, again, it was voluntary (2 Cor 8:8).

    In one of the Pauline epistles, Paul talks about all of the members of a congregation holding all things in common.

    This was Luke writing in Acts

    When the first believers met in the temple courts they voluntarily (from time to time) donated money to the apostles care and they saw to everyone's need (Acts 2:44). But then this is never heard from again. And instead what you see in the years following is people like Paul appealing to people's conscience to give from their private possessions.

    Because ultimately, right from the start, private property and private control prevailed (for example: Joseph of Arimathea was allowed to remain wealthy, Peter escaping from jail he goes to John Mark's mother who not only owns a house but also a servant girl - Acts 12:12-13 etc). And while it's certainly true church leadership urged people to be generous to those less well off, this was never compulsory (never instituted as a tax). The church in the bible did not even institute the old Jewish law of tithing (compulsory donation of 10%) despite what modern pastors would like people to believe. Instead not only was the giving voluntary but the amount was up to the giver.

    Which is probably why Christianity has melded into the various systems of government seen in the West, from dictatorships to market driven social democracies. It's quite a chameleon. Because it tells individuals how they ought to behave but says very little (if anything) about how a state or market ought to behave.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • Yes that is different but it's interesting, thanks. How does it work in practise? Are you not often sat around waiting for someone else to progress before you get an item you need to continue?

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • default behaviour of Windows Media Player.....

  • Anybody here whose main use of computers is NOT games?

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  • Xennial here. My non-admin use is probably split 60% learning, 30% programming, 10% gaming

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  • "I want to get to know you"

  • How much of an asshole is your washing machine/dryer?

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  • I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn't be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn't know if you'd really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like.. "what the fuck". It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • I always wanted to see genres merged into one great big epic universe

    Plan and manage a galactic empire in the Civilization paradigm

    Enter individual space battles like Eve Online..

    Force boarding of captive ships and battle through them like Quake..

    But have all this connected and running simultaneously.. you might be rushing though a FPS battle inside a ship trying to control of it when another Frigate in the space battle blows it apart etc. Or even as the ships bridge and navigation remains under hostile control you manage to take control of its weapons and use them to aid your side. Possibilities are endless..

  • Why does it seem constantly Israel makes bad deals? Like with Hamas handing over the hostages but Israel has to let loose like 1k?

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  • Israel cares more about their people than Hamas does theirs. Discuss.

  • If there is no heaven or after life, what is the point of living?

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  • You are having what's called a crisis of faith and an existential crisis. Don't worry, millions of people have been through this ahead of you and come out the other side.

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • A variation happened to me last week that's why it came to mind. Was opening an mp4 recorded on a digital camera on a new laptop. So the stock player had a go and gave a message similar to the above. vlc was installed moments later and of course had no issue..

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it's not yet associated with vlc

    "Hey.. it looks like your going to have to buy a codec..."

    manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

  • Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on?

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  • Invoking determinism is fine, just be aware it rarely solves the problem you think it does.

    Saying 'some bad thing happened - the universe made it happen, it's not my fault' - what are you really wanting to achieve with that? If it was beyond your ability to do otherwise, then you probably want to process this some other way (mindfulness / therapy / talking it out with someone) until your emotions align with the facts. Because you don't have a "responsibility" problem you have a "thinking it was my responsibility when it wasn't" problem. And appealing to determinism isn't going to change your habit of doing that.

    On the other hand, if you actually could have made a difference / prevented it but knowingly didn't (or were sufficiently careless that your culpability is real) then appealing to fate might be a short term plaster but it's a bad long term fix.

    And this is because rather than dealing with a feeling of guilt or dealing with how you make choices you are masking these things by making yourself out to be a passive object that life happens to. Again, as a short term cope that can be fine, but do you see how making a habit of that just undermines your ability to believe you can grow and be better?

    At its extreme appealing to determinism can remove your perception of everyone's responsibility. "Everything's inevitable"... "We're all just biological machines".. "I couldn't help it"... And while, from a certain point of view, physics can lend evidence to determinism. It doesn't actually affect how life works because even if we are all biological machines, we still need to ascribe what we call 'responsibility' to the biological machine through which something undesirable came. People will still want to avoid people who hurt them. The law will still have to segregate the wrongdoer. Even if everything is now "deterministic". (The Amazon warehouse sorting robots will isolate a misbehaving robot even if that robot has not one jot of control over its programming - if you see what I mean).

    So all I'm saying is belief in "fate" has an illusory power. Where it makes us feel less bad about something. But taken to its extreme it makes us not feel responsible for anything, while life carries on as normal and inevitably penalises us for that.

    So it's better for you to expose yourself to the pain of "yes it was my fault" (if indeed it was). But then in that pain not to give way to hopelessness, but rather realise pain (if based on truth) is a fuel by which to change yourself. Get other's help if necessary. But don't give up the opportunity to grow. The pain is actually a sign you care, don't deaden that. It's the stuff of life.

  • Is there a good compact encyclopedia in print? (UK)

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  • I'd print Wikipedia if I had the resources ;)

    Yes, current articles or, say, last 5 years maybe?

  • Is there a good compact encyclopedia in print? (UK)

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  • It's for a retreat that will have no electrics. Hence paper only. Paperback preferably.

  • What is something you only experienced once and would like to experience again?

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  • Kimberley M., 1998

  • (edited) - Should your morals be flexible? How rigid should your moral framework be, and should it depend on background of people in consideration

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  • I find reflecting on violence done to one's self is more complex, because you have full control over whether the suffering should be your own or an attacker's. And you may start reflecting on 'what's a proportional response?', 'is killing them justified when you don't know if they'd have taken your life or not?', 'might they not be responsible for their actions?', 'it's it better to suffer a little and give people the benefit of the doubt?'. This can get layered with all sorts of guilt and doubt depending what you factor in. 'did I contribute to the economic injustice that has produced this mugger who's attacking me?'

    Etc etc. It's a quagmire.

    I find things become simpler when I consider an attacker about to assault a weaker person - a child say - in front of me. Should I use violence to stop that attacker?

    Given that it now doesn't seem to be my place to reflect on the just suffering of a child, the obligation to stop the attacker with force becomes clearer.

    At least it seems morally clear (at least to me) that to claim to be a pacifist when observing a violent assault on a child, one is no better than the attacker.

    That breaks the idealistic (and naive) hope that there might be a way to be non-violent and just. After that, one has better tools to re-evaluate assaults upon one's self. If I am a person who through their actions reduces unjust suffering, then allowing myself to come to harm harms others and is unjust. Protecting one's self with violence becomes justified and necessary.

    (When I was a student I was an idealist and a pacifist. When I became a father it became quite clear to me that I would break someone else in half if they were hurting my children..)

  • do people really care about boot time?

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  • It didn't matter to me until I had a laptop that booted super fast. And now it matters...