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  • Good question

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  • To reduce your question down, you seem to be asking, "Why did x thing get created if it caused evil?"

    I like to think that the answer is in how things are created. To create matter, you have to also create antimatter (if i understand that right). Perhaps, for God to create Good, he had to also create evil. A point that I have seen argued is "did god create everything from nothing" like was taught by the Catholic church, or "did god create from existing things" like organization.

    In conclusion, what god did and why has a lot of questions around it, and it is easy to split a definition like "create" and get in a heated argument while talking past each other.

    I personally think that "being as gods having a knowledge of good and evil" being the boon that the fruit of the tree gave is key to your question as there is no perception of good without the contrast of evil and vice versa.

    **Source for personal belief: ** https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=NIV The serpent lies to get past the reticence of eating/disobeying by saying "you shall not surely die" then persuades with an assertion that I take to be fact: "be like god having knowledge of good and evil".

  • Good question

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  • Dont forget that he had to become a "magical zombie asking you to eat his flesh and blood to give you superpowers".

  • Good question

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  • I had a professor make that exact argument... or perhaps he was quoting an argument of one of the greats. Anyway, the argument goes like this:

    • if there is evil, and god has the power to stop it, but he doesnt due to his knowledge, then he is not omnicient
    • if there is evil, and god has the power to stop it, but he doesnt and he has all knowledge, then he is evil
    • if there is evil, and god does not have the power to stop it, then he is impotent

    The first person then smugly smiles that they put God into a box and waits to hear the mental gymnastics from the Christian Philosopher.

    The christian philosopher then brings up a few points that were straw manned:

    • incomplete understanding of whether what we are seeing is "evil"
    • the illusion of choice - are we simply clocks that were preprogrammed back when the big bang occured? Can a clock have "evil" within it?
    • moral agents with ability to make meaningful choices - The actions of the omnipotent being (God) are tied by pesky rules regarding choice because the being (God) could eliminate choice: the being could choose the perfect stimuli to create an exact copy of an ideal AI in a bio-mechanical body instead of moral agents who choose to be a dick or not. Therefore, if this fact pattern is reality, then there must be "something special" about being a moral agent and having a relationship albeit distant with an Omnipotent being.

    The philosophers then keep asking questions to reduce the opponents argument until they conclude with the following question: "What is?" then they leave as friends.

  • Good question

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  • The way you are confident that you have covered all arguments is a little grating on me. From my understanding of philosophy and christianity, there is another option, but your extremely broad strokes in "option 2" i guess encapsulates it because it explains all actions and reasons for actions as "weird" and "important for some reason" when describing both the process and the destination.

    Option 4:

    Kicking the kids out after they should be legal adults

    God had a ton of kids. He didn't want them to have failure to launch, so he set up them to have "knowledge of good and evil" and imperfect parents then each of god's kids (now with bodies as humans) have the choice to act as a moral agent. Moral agents can choose to be dicks or altruistic. The best humans get to be "joint heirs with Christ" and inherit all that Christ inherits. The rest... fail to launch and ultimately get a really nice bedroom and computer but that's about it. The kicked-out kid's perspective on their parent right after getting kicked out is extremely mixed.

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  • To simplify a company's purpose into "to make money" is like "is the purpose of life eating, sleeping, anbreathing"

  • Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times?

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  • Living in the "self esteem" part of Maslow's pirimid when you are battling basic needs aka allergies, sleep, dehydration, dimentia, etc is a good way to be depressed. Focus on preservation of assets and restoring basic functions.

  • Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

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  • Well, yes and no. Most likely its adoption would be where petroleum stations start creating it on site and selling like a carbon neutral gasoline. Energy has to come from somewhere, so it will probably take solar power to store as fomate and sell as fuel

  • to all Professional Debt Collectors,

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  • Well unsecured consumer debt has technically no legal consequences if it is not paid unless you get permission to garnish wages from a court. Most consumer debt collectors use the "badger and harry" approach of constant phone calls to collect debt.

    Secured debt will just take the collateral.

    Of course try the high fico score debtors first.

    Or just forgive the debt.

  • Your username is the prompt, what did you get? This is mine:

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  • It isn't quite sinking it has a neutral buoyancy between the surface and the bottom.

  • Your username is the prompt, what did you get? This is mine:

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  • I bet mine would be an image from office space

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    Filters off, where do you really see yourself in 5 years?

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  • Well, it seems like you have a good BS detector. I would still go to chatgpt and ask for "what types of psychologist approaches are there to sadness". It will then respond with " behavioral, cognitive, etc") then I would ask what would a therapist for each approach say to a person who "is sad, and other characteristics and circumstances of yours". Then pick the ones that you haven't tried or you only did halvsies the first time you tried it.

    Good luck!

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    Filters off, where do you really see yourself in 5 years?

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  • My dude, please get some professional help. I am religious, so if you ask me, I would point there, but seriously, you are worth it and you are at least worth the memes you post. I bet that you could grow a bunch from a place of stability, and have a pretty rad life to look forward to

    Here is some other advice:

    • ask chat-gpt for some exercises to help you get your brain where it should be and a timeline. Then execute. Rinse repeat

    • reduce social media (including Lemmy) a good "cold turkey" break would be a cruise or something.

    • obtain physically proximate friends via volunteering at a local food bank or similar nonprofit.

  • anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running?

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  • I was imagining a "I just wiped my hard drive and flashed the current version of Debian. Let's get basic services up."

    I wish there was a "hey watch me code/self host" channel that helped noobs see how to approach the problem of starting. Usually their is a "hey watch me code" YouTube that is old enough to have a critical breaking point (some library updated) so a noob finds it impossible.

  • anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running?

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  • If you are successful in this, perhaps a twitch channel walking through the basics running on a regular ish basis

  • Fellow Extreme Weather Lemmings, what are your Buy it for Life winter boot suggestions?

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  • Some highly rated combat boots. Just rember to change out your socks.

  • What websites do you highly recommend to other likeminded hobbyists?

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  • He asked for a generalist site, so a site that has already been captured.

  • What websites do you highly recommend to other likeminded hobbyists?

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  • The problem with "what to buy to get started" is that that question is tantalizingly juicy to advertisers. Therefore, when a place is found it is usually captured by low quality high dollar cost advertisers (like reddit or amazon or essentially all the other sites that carry and recommend hobbiest products).

    I think your best bet is to get to know a few people who actually are doing the hobby (not a advertising influencer) and see the cost points for real hobbiests.

  • What is the point of Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, etc?

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  • The Linux purist is to provide the source code and you download then compile the small files.

    Developers and gamers don't have storage issues so the higher storage size of flapak and the lack of dependency issues (a copy of every library used) make flatpak user friendly enough for normies aka gamers with steamdecks

  • Is there such a thing as too much privacy?

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  • The lack of observation has a clear effect on thoughts and behavior. There is even an English saying "when the cat is away, the mice will play". I think that there is no such thing as " freedom of speech" or "freedom of assembly", if a malicious actor is silent notes taking at all times.

    And because harvested data goes to the rich, or the cops who care about convictions more than the truth it is a reasonable assumption in my threat model that data observation is malicious observation.

    Also from a citizen development perspecrive, if your citizens are always watched, then they never develop the " moral muscle" and the only morality remains in the hands of those with the power to observe and enforce their will.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are all the silly and serious easy that you have thought of for carbon recapture?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    issue: only first image loads when a post is a series of images

    sh.itjust.works /post/1025604
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    solved

    Can't login into jerboa but can login via browser.

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Foss alternative to Marco Polo?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    lemmy feature or jerboa feature request

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Homeschool Curriculum for children under 5. What book or workbooks should I work out of?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    community url to subscribe handling feature