u/Christopretensism

What you choose to believe will have drastic consequences on your life from your identity, your purpose of life and what you value and your sense of morality.

I choose to put my faith in what makes the most sense to me on a philosophical level. Science can change but the fundamental facts and laws of morality and wisdom stay the same.

If you want to believe in spontaneous evolution and billions of years old Earth and all the sub-beliefs that go with denying intentionality for the universe's existence then you can but it will affect how you perceive life, yourself, others and morality in a bad way and that's my bias.

I don't like what it does to me if I acceptEd these mainstream nerdy stances on the history of the universe, Earth and life.

It does not make sense from a Philosophical perspective and even if you can make a convincing case scientifically, it doesn't stop being a toxic view on life and existence.

I am Altruistic not Egoistic but even I can't accept a belief/worldview that denies God and humans having an immaterial spirit and that conveniently affirms death as valid processes rather than a curse and immorality as natural competition.

I don't want to make this post about politics but horseshoe theory is real at least on paper.

A purple haired communist liberal vegan acknowledges the immorality of eating meat at some level despite believing in evolution and how it's supposed to be natural for life forms to consume other life forms and the Christian view on eating meat is that it's considered an unnatural necessity because we lost Paradise—the place of food abundance so now we eat meat to compensate for living in a world of extreme scarcity. Just looking outside there is not much edible plant life that grows so people relied on meat since animals can eat plants that aren't suitable for human consumption but by eating the animals we benefit from the nutrition of what they ate after being filtered by their bodies.

So Christians reject eating meat as natural but "science" calls it the food chain.

So that's an example of how impactful what you believe is to your character.

We lost Paradise so now death is part of this world so if you need to eat meat because it's healthy and more affordable then do it but just remember that all the animals that are dying to make your life possible for now are not going to save you forever because you're going to die with them eventually, the wages of sin is death.

But according to "science" death is part of a natural cycle and not something to desire for it to be abolished.

Humans have a survival instinct but it's not absolute. People do things that can kill them all the time like smoking. They say risk taking is good for evolution sometimes but life preservation is always admirable in my perspective of others over oneself.

So how you view the most intimate concepts of life is deeply affected by your foundational beliefs on what is reality based on the past.

What I found out over the years is that the character comes before the beliefs so people who are already inclined to reject God's existence prefer a different worldview over those who prefer to believe in God's existence.

The ideas convince nobody because people choose to put their faith in whatever they already want to believe in.

Both "accept the science" or "accept religion" are tyrannical approaches to this schism.

Just let people choose to believe in whatever they want.

And in less than 100 years from now (when we're dead) we can figure out which side turned out better than the other—if any.

But speaking personally, I am more comfortable with the terminal question of "who created God" over "who or how was the universe created" or "what created what created the universe if not God".

I don't have to know how the Genesis of God works or how to comprehend the absence of a beginning.

But you non-believers are always searching for an answer to the genesis of the universe and I am confident you'll never find it.

Radiometric dating, fossils, satellite measurements, repeated observations and calculations.

You can convince yourself you are right with so much "evidence" but that does not substitute the fact that you were not there to witness it happen.

I'm just saying no. I'm not putting my faith in any of that stuff.

I'm open to alternative explanations but I appreciate having sovereignty/control over what I believe and I'm putting my faith in what relatively speaking is considered "young earth creationism" even though I can allow for the Earth to be around 10 to 15 thousand years old in my opinion.

Last but not least, if we are just material and have no spirit, the logic of punishment breaks because how do we punish people who have no free will and are simply driven by biological processes? Maybe that's why they want to replace punishment with therapy these days but evil is real and efforts to release prisoners always lead to a backlash the following elections.

If you do evil you are not simply a victim of your environment or just following your biological and genetic processes.

You should believe in moral guilt but if you reject God and human spirits/souls with free will then you can't.

In conclusion. I am not going to believe in such a sad worldview like evolution and scientific attempts for explaining why anything exists at all.

If you want to believe that all I ask is to please be a hypocrite. Do not consistently believe it. Please treat immorality like real blame not an evolutionary process. If your beliefs logically conclude or equate to a scandal be inclined to favor sanity over what you think is probably true.

If humans are soulless then our lives have no objective meaning especially if people are in circumstances that include pain and suffering instead of joy.

Pain and suffering in Christianity allow our spirits to grow in sanctity.

Pain and suffering in non-theistic worldviews is a problem to either fix or to end with euthanasia.

So if you believe in non-theistic worldviews please be a hypocrite, it's the only time I'll tell someone that.

This actually makes more sense than the endless millions and billions we are told. Human history today is moving so fast, I'm gen z when I was a baby the Internet was just beginning, my school in coastal California didn't even have computers and now we have AI. I read history and I see things moving quickly not slowly so if we assume things move at a semi constant speed there is no reason to believe billions of years have passed since the Earth's creation.

Life goes by fast on a personal level but also by a historical level. I'm 27 years old I can now tell you I have witnessed the climate change, the weather is not what it was when I was little, the fact that change is fast even if I felt it slow when I was a little child is one reason why I don't believe in old Earth.

Don't get me wrong, if the earth is 10,000 years old that's still very old compared to our lifespan and I'm willing to believe it might be around that age but not millions.

People in the old testament lived almost a thousand years, basically like a day since a day is often compared to a thousand years.

Aside from Philosophical theories, hard science proof of Earth's age I can't offer it but I can tell you that I think stuff happened rather fast. I live in a mountainous area and I don't think we got a volcano every quarter of a million years until it formed a mountain range, I think something huge happened that altered the landscape and then everything settled down into a more stable state meaning most mountains are probably around the same age.

The global flood could be real or a theological analogy or parable, but considering how long people lived before the flood and the stronger bodies people had back then which they needed to live that long, I think the ark could have been a real thing. There's a lot of big things you can do if you had more than 100 years to do it. We spend 20 years of our short life just growing up and soon after reaching the climax of our physical maturity we begin to decline ultimately to the point of our death, we do not have time to build an ark anymore.

I'm not even trying to make this post convincing to science nerds, I am more interested in the philosophy. The fact that everything happens so fast and that it is conceivable that the earth is not as old as they're telling us.

You can believe whatever you want but it's ultimately dictated by your morality not science because nobody knows.

The non believers are coincidentally always the egalitarian liberal type.

What you believe about the genesis of Earth is inseparable from your political beliefs.

One of my least favorite arguments is those who deny global warming because "the climate has always changed for millions of years".

It's kind of weird to think about it but the political divide is not that divided. Both sides are united against God in their embrace of the evil of egoism.

The communist envies the wealthy for the wealth they wish they had and the lucridolaterous "capitalist" simply wants to defend their loot.

If you can't win at the game you change the game/rules but the evil spirit is the same behind the divide.

In philosophy we only divide on the basis of Altruism and Egoism. Christianity is an Altruistic religion.

Old Earth lends itself to egoist beliefs while young Earth creationism lends itself to Altruistic beliefs.

Depending on what you are, you are going to choose one or the other.

Most modern Republicans are old Earthers fyI, hence global warming isn't a problem because climate change has been happening for "millions of years" plus Earth used to be very hot in the long distant past or so they say.

I actually believe that's true, Earth is a lot colder than it was before the time of the flood in the old testament.

Do civil engineers choose to make the horrible car centric infrastructure we have with dangerous crosswalks and suicidal bike lanes you shouldn't ride in? What about unnecessary no through streets that are technically public but useless to anyone who doesn't live there because they don't connect?

Did our civil engineers graduate from a banana university or is the kakistocracy making them build retarded infrastructure?

Last but not least, with the lack of serious public transit in this country, what do civil engineers do all day? Pave roads? You definitely aren't managing high speed rail or any kind of rail in most areas of the country.

Roundabouts, protected bike lanes or separated trails for bikes and pedestrians. It seems like we could use a lot of upgrades to our archaic infrastructure design.

Last but not least, maybe civil engineers could use some help from the humanities in deciding what should actually get built—not just building something that can theoretically/mathematically work.

I don't want to dox myself but my area is slowly improving. We have the Sonoma Marin Bay Area Transit called SMART. We got a few round abouts in Sonoma County. But I am thankful I do not live in Santa Rosa California because that city is hellishly car centric, it's like straight out of the Houston Texas playbook, I fear for my life crossing streets in that city which I had to do at least once when I was taking the bus to college.

Now tell me, what do y'all civil engineers do all day and aside from the core calculus math sequence what classes do you take?

God capped it at 70-80 years with exceptional cases reaching a little longer.

122 is the oldest someone got in recent history—impressive but far from significant.

Nobody can live 150+ years.

Almost nobody will make it past 80 years.

You would need to get a brain replacement eventually and then you won't be you.

Everyone lives an average of somewhere between 70-80 years old with severe physical decline after their 50's.

Money can't save you from what's coming 💀☠️💀

If you lived a lucridolaterous life you have bigger problems to worry about than death because this will be something God judges against.

A poor peasant can outlive a wealthy person by the grace of God.

Biden, Trump, all establishment Zionist wealthy Democrats and Republicans that are super wasted, they're not going to live long.

Democratic Socialists of America are eventually going to replace these people because they can't hold on to power in their grave and these DSA candidates I'm telling you now I have never seen such a youthful slate of candidates and I am not even a leftist but I welcome their progressive populism.

Money can't buy you communion with God or a longer lifespan to avoid his judgement after death.

Death is the great equalizer. I am not a wealthy person but I honestly don't care to become it. I want spiritual growth so I am ready for Paradise.

I was fortunate enough to have stayed logged on so I could submit assignments today while others couldn't.

Ever since I was approaching 18 I hated the thought of time going by so fast and I feel like I'm going to die soon. I no longer feel years as years, I now feel them as days or weeks or months, they feel like they go by so fast. I don't think I can accomplish anywhere near what I would like in such a short lifespan but my only saving grace is that I am convinced of my religion so I don't believe in permanent non-existence but I still don't feel ready and mature enough to leave this world behind so soon. I feel like years should feel like they take longer to complete but instead they go by so fast and humans don't live very many years. I don't consider 70-80 to be that many for a lifespan. Some redwood trees are a couple thousand years old, we only get 70 to 80 years and we spend half the time sleeping, most of the time working and the first 20 growing up and maturing and the last 30 decaying and getting sick until we die.

You know those players that abandon their worm and it goes straight until it crashes.

All three are necessary, if your major doesn't include all consider taking electives or a minor or double major. You can use the summer semester for electives.

I took all these pictures. Blow the bubbles in the right place and weather so they go up, not down.

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Use soap, water, and syrup for long-lasting bubbles.

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High relative humidity is ideal, but they should still last long with syrup in modestly humid conditions.

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Watch the beautiful ornaments in the sky and let them change your perspective on life and space.

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Relax and enjoy the view. Let them improve your posture by making you look up instead of staring down at a screen.

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It’s also a breathing exercise and good for mental health.

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One of the biggest lessons this will teach you is patience, because it takes patience to blow bubbles and to get them to go up instead of crashing into the ground and objects where they pop.

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If you have the technology for it, you can even add colorful aerosols inside them so they look like balls.

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Have fun!!!

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They will only grow up to feed the beast. Unless you know of ways to make that not be the case should we be having children.

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Only talk about this topic from this perspective. Do not give your opinion on having children from other perspectives like overpopulation or the environment. I just want us to examine the fact that children will grow up to be exploited for their labour by a Kleptocracy to keep the regime going and the fact that childbirth costs a lot of money because it isn't free which is a problem because not everyone can afford medical bills like that.

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If you are genuinely anti-child please don't comment, I want people who are pro-child to comment because this question is about the morality of having children in the current circumstances not the morality of having children in general.

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Every year, cars injure and kill many people and wildlife both kinetically and will air pollution and other externalities. The Pope has warned us about technology like AI but cars never got criticized. Cars are not just dangerous, they are against human dignity. They separate us from each other unlike walking, cycling and public transportation which encourages community and socialization. Cars dehumanize us, they make us selfish. Cars are also responsible for the fact that cities are ugly places and if we are fortunate to have a beautiful building it's probably a Church although even these days they don't make them like they used to.

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If we didn't have car dependency we would have a lower cost of living because cars are expensive, more community and more urban trees and gardens which is great for wildlife. The communion with nature and with each other is being reduced by car centric development.

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So why haven't the Popes said anything about it? This isn't a small niche topic either, the entire USA minus maybe a few unaffordable areas are car dependent. Things are slowly getting better but they're still terrible.

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Walking has been borderline criminalized. It has been made unsafe and walking in a suburb I feel like paranoid homeowners are watching through the window to make sure I'm not looking for an opportunity to steal something. No car should never equal no life, that is not a civilized society, that is just backwards.

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Other technology has not been as harmful. We all use the internet because it is convenient but if we choose not to use it our world doesn't end. Unless your job requires it you don't need to use computers to live in the modern era, but it doesn't hurt to and it is convenient and useful which is why we do but the same grace can't be given to cars.

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Cars have imposed themselves on society. Stuff is literally designed exclusively for cars. Everything has been made to be far and a large part of the separation is road width. Cars being prioritized also made crosswalks dangerous because lanes are wide, numerous with traffic from both directions with right turns on red and slip lanes and no traffic calming or center medium so pedestrians do not need to cross multiple lanes at once.

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Lastly, it can take over 5 minutes for pedestrians to get the right of way at a traffic controlled intersection. Walking would be slow enough without this extra delay to prioritize car travel.

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There is just too much wrong with cars being exclusively used for transportation and while we can opt out of driving we can't opt out of a society built exclusively for driving and the fact that choosing anything other than driving is made dangerous and inconvenient/impractical by design.

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Driving is not a real choice, choosing to use AI or the Internet in general is. The Pope needs to give us an encyclical demanding walkable cities with bike infrastructure and public transportation.

First saw the trend in quotes on Tiktok:

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Shame on me for letting hate and resentment get in the way of love.

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I only truly supported Trump around 2015-2016 when he first ran for president.

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I still shamefully saw him as the necessary lesser evil for far too long afterwards.

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I am glad I noticed the error of my ways/thinking.

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I am glad to have stopped even sympathizing a little with Trump since the beginning of his second term and there already wasn't much sympathy left beforehand.

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I did not vote in the past two elections I was old enough to vote in and non voters elected Trump so while only the cult actually had the motivation to vote for him the rest of us non voters also let them have their way.

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Even though Biden committed a genocide by arming and funding it, I still regret not voting for him because of who he was running against.

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I didn't like Kamala Harris either but I should have voted for her.

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I regret not supporting Hillary Clinton but I was too young to vote back then.

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How could I have been so stupid to think Trump was good for my religion?

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I now call myself a Deusmediatorunitionist, something Trump was never even pretending to be a believer in.

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All he does is spread hate and division and do the bidding of kleptocracy.

You should use a stereoscopic 3D camera now. The day where a flat image is evidence is coming to an end. AI can make realistic images now.

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AI can't make realistic 3D stereoscopic images especially videos so if you can record even a few seconds that's good evidence in court.

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Multiple 3D cameras from various angles are even better.

Capitalism has me enslaved and I want out.

Welcome to the higher education paradox.

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If higher education is not accessible to most people, we live in an uneducated society and the few who are educated stand out to employers.

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If we live in a society where education is accessible to everyone, we live in a highly educated society and few if any stand out to employers.

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The solution cannot be to make education scarcer and less accessible because that would be immoral/unethical.

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So what's the solution?

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My concern is that many will abandon higher education because "it's not worth it" but the reason why it doesn't make financial sense is because we live in a more educated society that simultaneously has the highest cost of living and it's getting worse so the degrees that don't pay enough are increasingly more and more.

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Most degrees are humanities and most humanities are going underwater as "unviable" which means more students are oversaturating STEM plus AI automating entry level jobs and is there any viable degrees left?

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So people are going to the trades now but trades can also be automated because they were the first to do so via factories.

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AI robots are coming for you too.

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I'm not against AI but the landlord isn't lowering the rent because jobs are scarcer and pay is lower, he only cares about the money.

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So you have no choice but to find something and there is less and less out there to be discovered.

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I call it the profitable niche extinction.

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While being a nurse is still a practical and viable career especially in a country that is so sedentary and eats processed junk food, that's not everyone's niche.

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Job variety matters because we all have different niches of talents and interests.

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We can't just consolidate to a handful of viable majors that are viable for employment because we're not all the same.