u/fwoppyjawopy

How can a Christian or religious person believe that someone deserves eternal punishment in hell when that person can clearly have good morals—maybe even better morals than many hypocritical Christians or religious people?

Someone who spends their entire life helping people, caring for animals, protecting the environment, reducing suffering, and genuinely trying to leave the world better than they found it.

And the response is essentially, “Yeah, they can do all of that and be a genuinely good person, but if they don't believe in the Father, they're going to hell.”

Insane.

Personally, I'd much rather give credit to people, believers and nonbelievers alike, who educate themselves, take action, and dedicate their lives to reducing human and animal suffering. To me, that's taking moral responsibility seriously.

I've found freedom in being an agnostic atheist and resonating with a blend of optimistic nihilism, existentialism, absurdism, and stoicism.

I don't need one label or philosophy to explain everything. I'll take what I find valuable from each.

Anyone else feel this way?

It feels much more refreshing than being given certainty where there may not actually be any.

I also love how hypocritically funny it is for religious people to debate their faith on the internet. Yet they can't explain the science and processes on how the internet even works and interacts with our devices, but have the audacity to ask us how something was created from nothing but God is outside time and space so yeah I trust that.

Get a grip.

"I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned," - Richard Feynman

How can a Christian or religious person believe that someone deserves eternal punishment in hell when that person can clearly have good morals—maybe even better morals than many hypocritical Christians or religious people?

Someone who spends their entire life helping people, caring for animals, protecting the environment, reducing suffering, and genuinely trying to leave the world better than they found it.

And the response is essentially, “Yeah, they can do all of that and be a genuinely good person, but if they don't believe in the Father, they're going to hell.”

Insane.

Personally, I'd much rather give credit to people, believers and nonbelievers alike, who educate themselves, take action, and dedicate their lives to reducing human and animal suffering. To me, that's taking moral responsibility seriously.

I've found freedom in being an agnostic atheist and resonating with a blend of optimistic nihilism, existentialism, absurdism, and stoicism.

I don't need one label or philosophy to explain everything. I'll take what I find valuable from each.

Anyone else feel this way?

It feels much more refreshing than being given certainty where there may not actually be any.

I also love how hypocritically funny it is for religious people to debate their faith on the internet. Yet they can't explain the science and processes on how the internet even works and interacts with our devices, but have the audacity to ask us how something was created from nothing but God is outside time and space so yeah I trust that.

Get a grip.

"I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned," - Richard Feynman

Just curious what others use in a conversation against the different types of people we challenge.

I think rarely does anyone actually understand what a lot of us are explaining because people get defensive and think we are asking them to uproot their entire life they were brought up on.

It doesn't take much to convince my caveman brain that I'd rather say "I don't know" than claim certainty about something I can't actually know.

I'm sure the title question has been asked before, so if anyone knows who first expressed this idea, or something similar, please let me know.

From what we understand, human language has evolved culturally over extremely long periods of time, with thousands of different languages developing across different regions and cultures.

At the same time, we're trying to describe a universe that is approximately 13.8 billion years old using languages and conceptual frameworks that humans developed relatively recently.

That thought is comforting to me, and I feel like it's almost impossible for anyone to truly comprehend that amount of time.

I'm not saying we know nothing. We've learned an incredible amount about the universe. But I find it humbling that we're tiny organisms that evolved on one planet, using human-created systems of language and mathematics to try to understand something that existed for billions of years before we were here.

A photon doesn't care whether we call it a "photon" in English or whatever word another language uses. The physical thing exists independently of the label we gave it.

Even something as simple as country names demonstrates this. We use names for countries that aren't necessarily what the people living there call their own countries. I'm curious how many people actually know this. I've brought it up a few times in person, and the responses I've gotten have often been confusion or surprise.

So if humans developed different languages, cultures, religions, philosophies, and ways of interpreting reality, how can any of us be completely certain that any one of them has discovered the absolute and complete truth about reality?

Especially when different religions make mutually exclusive claims about ultimate truth, often based on their own ancient texts and traditions.

This is ultimately why I'm comfortable saying:

"I don't know."

I'm curious to hear how people who haven't thought about this question before would respond to it.

Thanks for read!

I wanted to share a question I've started thinking about more recently.

It doesn't take much to convince my caveman brain that I'd rather say "I don't know" than claim certainty about something I can't actually know.

I'm sure the title question has been asked before, so if anyone knows who first expressed this idea, or something similar, please let me know.

From what we understand, human language has evolved culturally over extremely long periods of time, with thousands of different languages developing across different regions and cultures.

At the same time, we're trying to describe a universe that is approximately 13.8 billion years old using languages and conceptual frameworks that humans developed relatively recently.

That thought is comforting to me, and I feel like it's almost impossible for anyone to truly comprehend that amount of time.

I'm not saying we know nothing. We've learned an incredible amount about the universe. But I find it humbling that we're tiny organisms that evolved on one planet, using human-created systems of language and mathematics to try to understand something that existed for billions of years before we were here.

A photon doesn't care whether we call it a "photon" in English or whatever word another language uses. The physical thing exists independently of the label we gave it.

Even something as simple as country names demonstrates this. We use names for countries that aren't necessarily what the people living there call their own countries. I'm curious how many people actually know this. I've brought it up a few times in person, and the responses I've gotten have often been confusion or surprise.

So if humans developed different languages, cultures, religions, philosophies, and ways of interpreting reality, how can any of us be completely certain that any one of them has discovered the absolute and complete truth about reality?

Especially when different religions make mutually exclusive claims about ultimate truth, often based on their own ancient texts and traditions.

This is ultimately why I'm comfortable saying:

"I don't know."

I'm curious to hear how people who haven't thought about this question before would respond to it.

Thanks for read!

Decided to lean fully into the rebuild!

Trade 1: Sent Tyler Warren for a 2027 1st.

Trade 2: Sent Tetairoa McMillan for a 2026 1st.

Trade 3: Sent Emeka Egbuka + a 2026 2nd and received Matthew Golden, a 2026 1st, and a 2027 2nd.

After all three deals, I now control multiple premium first-round picks and now own 1.01–1.05 in the 2026 class, while also holding what looks like the likely 1.01 and 1.02 in 2027.

Team #1 in all three trades. We are cooking!