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[–] 143 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I dont think its a good idea for Christians to be picking at that thread

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    The bible even has something to say about it:

    And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    What does the quoted passage mean and how does this painting relate?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    “mote” as in a speck of dust

    “beam” as in a huge plank of wood

    Basically don’t point out small faults of your neighbor while ignoring huge faults of your own.

    It’s a metaphor. No one has a beam in their eye. But it’s a metaphor that drops suddenly in the second half, because you can literally imagine a mote in someone’s eye.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Its a bibpe verse against hypocrisy, essentially correct yourself before correcting others. Take the log put of your eye before you take it out of someone else's. The painting shows a guy talking with a log his face.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What the other person said but specifically take the tiny little thing out of your eye, before telling someone else to take the big huge thing out of their own.

    Basically don't criticise unless you're perfect.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wrong, you mixed it up and therefore got the final morale wrong.

    It says “while you have huge issues to fix for yourself, don't criticize the small issues in others”. Or in other words “don't expect others to be perfect when you're not even adequate”

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    They’re SO deep down the hole with their big lie that they think everyone ELSE is lying to himself. Truly amazing.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Critical thinking simply stops. It's incredible. I saw someone say to a Christian that their morality comes from divine revelation from a magic purple hippo that created the universe and the Cristian accurately identified all the problems with that argument. Then when asked where morality comes from, regurgitate the exact bullshit they themselves debunked with God in place of the purple hippo.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Yes they really celebrate blind faith explicitly. Like it makes you a better person if you can put your doubts aside and just believe. And they straight up call us all a flock of sheep. It couldn’t be more on the nose as a scam. This is why every church has a daycare attached to it: if they don’t hook you young they might not get you at all because it’s such a huge steaming pile of bullshit.

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  • [–] 81 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    I’m just posting because I noticed that the W in “your whole life” is an upside down M. Goddamn typomania got me again!

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Did you notice the S is upside-down?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Is it? It looks the same to me when I flip my phone. Perhaps it looks off because it's in a bolder or newer set, like the B and some other letters. Or maybe it's AI and every detail is random.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Or maybe that was a joke about the 'S' being the same either way

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's actually upside down though

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Did you notice that two of the four-letter “I”s are upside down as well?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How do you spell "I" with four letters?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Take an I, set it immediately against the side of another I. Do that again with your other pair of Is and set them immediately atop the first pair. You now have a new I built from four Is in the same proportions. If it's too big, scale it down or use smaller Is as components.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the one in “believed” now seems off and the one in “life” definitely seems right. I can’t quite tell about the other two, especially with how weird the I in “if” is generally.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve had to put letters on signs like this before. You don’t get equal numbers of every letter, less-frequent letters have fewer. And if they get broken or stolen or blow away or something, that can seriously limit you. So you figure out ways to make up for it, like flipping M upside-down for W.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago

    oh, religion. nothing embodies hypocrisy like you.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    You think that's air you're breathing now?

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    The completely unrealized irony.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    You do realize that your comment, “The completely unrealized irony” works both ways here, right? The person making the unsubstantiated “what if”… the person mocking the person making the unsubstantiated “what if”. There is no certainty. In the case of the church worker, it is her faith compels her to address her suggestion to the faithless… just as much it is your faith that her’s is wrong that lets you join this party.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

    What faith does parent poster proclaim?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    Faith in his certainty that the faith of the church worker is a lie.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    If they are a typical Christian, their theology has falsifiable claims. Unless they are some kind of Unitarian. So, it does not require faith to know they are wrong about their faith.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You appear to have a great deal of faith in your own ability to read what’s happening in another’s mind and heart. Eg… you have no idea what elements of any particular religion a person considers relevant to their memberships.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    If people follow an organized religion I do assume they accept, or at least don't outwardly reject, the tenants of that theology. So, it is functionally identical to me, if not to their own internal monologue.

    So, sure I'm assuming a complex, spectrum-based identity as a binary, uniform contract. However, this is probably just a defence mechanism from living amongst the crazy ones for too long.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    your truth is not the one truth, their for, to say the others are a lie is inaccurate, to the point it show a bit to much about yourself and what you think of others.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Whew… I usually hate AI but I think folks who can’t throw a single comprehensible sentence down get a pass and should always paste their work into AI for some proofreading.

    Others might also post the comment they are responding to into AI just to make sure they understand it.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What if the lie is something totally not related to religion, like you aren't a total loser and your friends really do love you and you are smart and capable?".

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Self aware church? Don't see that every day

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  • [+] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Heyyyy now, y'all be careful with that. The knife cuts both ways.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean. I’d argue that the group that more frequently questions its positions and beliefs based on new evidence without killing a significant portion of a country, is a safer source for interpreting the world than the group that killed 40% of Germany when one assumption, regarding the authority of the bishop of Rome, was in dispute for the first time in several centuries.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Of course. The ironic point is that plenty of people believed the old versions of what research showed dinosaurs were until they died. Some in denial of new research, like the presence of feathers.

    Humans are dogmatic about more than just religion.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Robert Maxwell published our textbooks

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Okay Morpheus, calm down.

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    Preach just listened to “With Teeth.” Good for him!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    then you would get what we got in the whitehouse

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    All mental constructs are “lies” in that it’s our vision of the world imposed on reality. What is a chair? For us is a structure we can sit on, for the universe or the rest of species on this planet, it’s just a piece of thing, and even wood is a constructed concept

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think I need to move to the Midwest and become a preacher. You work for like one hour a week on Sunday morning, and take everyone’s money, which you then live off of, tax free.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    We constantly change. There are no fixated lies or truths about us or the world. We just need to accept it and live in a process, not in a fixated system

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