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The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return
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#272if we're betting on fictional entities, let's do the easter bunny next.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think anything is weird anymore. The ultimate reality of free will is that you will always have the option to do right and wrong. If you don’t have faith, this privilege will be difficult. The human left to their own devices will always have a shifting sense of morality (turning a ship by 1 degree at a time). Faith was a gift to help. In terms of Christ, let me put it this way. Imagine your high school, and o…
> I don’t think anything is weird anymore. The ultimate reality of free will is that you will always have the option to do right and wrong. If you don’t have faith, this privilege will be difficult. The human left to their own devices will always have a shifting sense of morality (turning a ship by 1 degree at a time). I think this hypothesis is flawed. I think most people in society strive to do right, and therefore…
I'd challenge your position with a simple thought experiment. You're given a device with a button. When you push that button a random person you don't know will be killed. In exchange you'll receive $1 million in completely clean money, and nobody will ever know you pushed the button or how many times you pushed it.
So how many times would you push it? Such is our character that asking how many times you'd push it is far more interesting than asking if you'd push it. And asking how many times you'd push it also gets rid of the marginal utility argument, and just to the dirty self centered core of humanity.
People without any static set of values will trend towards doing whatever they want and then justifying it afterwards. There will undoubtedly be a guy who pushes it thousands of times, and then donates a fraction of it to charity, convincing himself that he's actually saved lives on net. That is humanity in a nutshell.
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Other way around, the saline shots were supposedly given to important people so they could pretend to get the vaccination without having to actually do it.
Yea, that was the line at first. But when you asked them 1-2 years after the shots where all the dead vaccinated people are they often say it didnt happen because most didnt get the real vaccine (of course different anti-vaxxers are going to have different explantions. This is just some of them)
My experience was that they just disappeared; it became harder and harder to find anyone willing to propose any theory at all in that general ballpark.
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Have you ever even read the passage?
> 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
> 26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
> 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
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Even worse, they spend every cent on stupid prepper bullshit like freeze dried rations! Rations will not help you or your family if civilization breaks down. Without a literal army , you are no more powerful than the ones who did nothing to prepare. All rations do is ensure that you starve to death a month later than expected. Even better, those of you that collected guns and ammo as a hobby are about as prepared as…
I'll throw in my $0.02 on this topic. I have a basement full of shelf stable foods, a reasonably large battery backup system plus some solar panels, and a couple of guns. I don't see civilization collapsing overnight. I see it playing out as a series of scarce times that ebb and flow. I don't think the supermarket will go away, but I do think there will be times when it looks like those videos of Soviet groceries, wh…
> I don't think the supermarket will go away, but I do think there will be times when it looks like those videos of Soviet groceries, where there's not much selection.
Seems to me we already saw that in 2020.
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#278This 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.
I feel like it looks good on your rap sheet when you go before St. Peter. Maybe get a pardon of sorts?
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Yes you, presumably someone who is not a christian and has never read the bible, know better than billions of christians and the millions of people who've actually read the bible. I'm not religious, but this is a bad take.
>Yes you, presumably someone who is not a christian and has never read the bible... > I'm not religious, but this is a bad take. ???
Say neither of us are French, have never been to Paris, and have never studied it. Everyone in France says one thing about the city Paris, but you say the opposite. I don't need to be an expert on France and Paris to say that the millions of people living there probably know better than you.
In the same vein, claiming you know more about a religion than the millions/billions of people who follow it is a low-IQ take, especially if the person making the claim knows nothing about the religion.