b_chocolatey @b_chocolatey@qoto.org

You really don't need to have a take on everything.

i followed too many people the timeline is too fast

@lack the #rationalist #scientific mind should accept, with #Nietzchean #Buddhist -like resignation, that we live in a Lawful Neutral universe that is sometimes indifferent to human well-being. Sometimes the hurricane wins. Sometimes the virus wins. Doesn’t conclusively dis-prove that Someone invented hydrogen and oxygen all those trillions of years ago.

@b_chocolatey I don't usually use the "problem of evil" argument, but when I do it's not me saying "I think God exists and is evil so I don't want it to exist", but more of a "If I temporarily assume that God exists for the sake of argument, I find this contradiction which suggests the initial idea (that a loving and powerful God exists) is incorrect".

I think this is a common misunderstanding of how the argument is supposed to work, made worse by atheists who maybe don't explain it well :)

@lack Christian god: “You are evil, and you deserve to die.” Atheist: “No, -you- are evil and I think you don’t exist.”

@lack I also think hard-atheist materialism, taken by itself without anti-Christian miso-theism, is a poorly thought out position. Either you accept the possibility of reincarnation or an afterlife of some sort, that just means you are re-inventing paganism… or, you deny the possibility of an afterlife or a soul, which is a difficult position to prove. Face it: consciousness is a hard problem, every AI developer or a sci-fi author knows that!

@me the remark about human insignificance, alluding to the Copernican principle, doesn’t disprove the existence of a personal god. Even Jesus said “are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And yet not one of them falls to the ground without your father knowing about it” - suggesting that the Copernican implications had already been considered, and considered refuted, centuries before Copernicus.

@scottcohn I’m gonna pay #Elon eight bucks just for driving traffic to the #fediverse. This is awesome.

Oh i realise a better #introduction is to list topics in which I’m interested. Like this?
#Climate #environment #river #ocean #Photography #Writing #Poetry #Fiction #Ukulele #football #Cricket #Cycling #mindfulness #psychology #Art #Australia #Fitzroy #Brunswick #Melbourne #reading #imagination #creativity #nature #kindness #thoughts #generosity #WatchYourSelf #NotYourMind #meditation #hope #comedy #funny

#introduction

I'm a journalist who covers hate and extremism in the US at a publication I launched called The Informant. I also freelance here and there.

I began my career almost 20 years ago at a local newspaper in Arizona and later spent some time working on staff at Talking Points Memo and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I enjoy art and graffiti as well as photography. I was recently diagnosed with #LongCovid, which has greatly reduced my capacity to work. But I'm still here.