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The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

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Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

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Post by recursivedoubts »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #17
jordanb wrote: post #7

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religion (that is, an objective morality) has always been the only thing the masses have when confronted with the great pagan principle: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

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Post by kubb »

jordanb wrote: post #7
k310 wrote: post #5

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You just need to employ the right strategy to deal with it. Possible options include:

  1. Claim that "camel" or "needle" are a mistranslation or symbolic.
  2. Separate financial life from your spiritual beliefs to avoid inner conflict.
  3. View wealth as a sign of God’s blessing or something used to do good, making it feel morally acceptable.
  4. Emphasize other passages that support generosity or success.
In general, it's easy to overcome cognitive dissonance in religion. You just accept additional beliefs that soften it.

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

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Post by wslh »

blendergeek wrote: post #21

This article fails to address that most true believers would not see any point to betting on the yes. If Christ returns this year, the world is done and there is no upside to having bet that he would. Temporal things (like prediction markets) will cease to be interesting when Christ returns. Given that, I highly doubt that the people betting yes actually believe that Christ will return this year.

Jokes aside, it would be interesting to see if the people betting "yes" are also placing predictions on events after 2025 since truly believing in Christ's return that year should make many irrelevant.

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Post by nathanaldensr »

vel0city wrote: post #22
XorNot wrote: post #10

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Sadly, this is very true in my experience. We are all fallen to some degree, but few, including Christians, seem to have the humility to recognize this in themselves.

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Post by ARandomerDude »

delichon wrote: post #25

The resolution source for this market will be a consensus of credible sources. I'm too skeptical to believe that a source is credible if that source claims any resurrection, let alone of a messiah. If a man who looks just like Jesus in the images showed up and performed all of the same miracles, I still wouldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it if the Pope declared it true, or something claiming to be God announced…

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