Just finished the article. It appears to be written by a well educated and intelligent man who somehow has the reasoning skills of a simpleton. His entire argument boils down to, "humans can't be moral without God threatening to burn us should we not be". He diminishes the religious morality he's attempting to lionize by framing it entirely as the logical fallacy of argument from authority. This was written in 1998 so how poorly he defends his notions can be forgiven somewhat given the fact that the atheist view on these things wasn't well known until people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens popularized them in the early 2000s.
The short, pithy rant from Richard Dawkins here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aCRHjH6d4Q is more of a, "dunk on the theists," sort of thing than I prefer but it too drives home a counter point to Philip Yancey's faith-biased views. In a similar vein here's Hitchens answering the same question (a bit angrily though since by this time he's answered this line of questioning many times in various ways): https://youtu.be/GQcGXBo8HP8
Wish I could enjoy single player games. I need the constant contest and adrenaline of a multiplayer shooter to hold my interest. Last single player game I was able to tolerate was GTA, still never finished the story though. The Souls-Like games look cool but I know I'd be bored to tears trying to play one.
Had a video on in the bg that mentioned the chip earlier, I think the big deal was the error correction scales or improves with as the number of qubits in quantum systems increases over time. I was baking cookies when I had whatever video that was on so I could be misremembering but I think that was it.
Little known trick, when you misclick or get an error message and wind up with a page refresh and all your text gone you can often get it back just by hitting the back button in your browser. This has worked for me many times trying to make media uploads and getting errors that refreshed the page. YMMV tho depending on your browser and such.
Also hello other darker-than-white person.
Also also bonus points for anyone who can name the movie my gif is from and why it's the perfect gif for this thread.
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Just finished the article. It appears to be written by a well educated and intelligent man who somehow has the reasoning skills of a simpleton. His entire argument boils down to, "humans can't be moral without God threatening to burn us should we not be". He diminishes the religious morality he's attempting to lionize by framing it entirely as the logical fallacy of argument from authority. This was written in 1998 so how poorly he defends his notions can be forgiven somewhat given the fact that the atheist view on these things wasn't well known until people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens popularized them in the early 2000s.
This secular reasoning was well articulated by Sam Harris in 2006: https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-myth-of-secular-moral-chaos
He'd then go on to give a TED talk on science based morality: https://youtu.be/Hj9oB4zpHww
The short, pithy rant from Richard Dawkins here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aCRHjH6d4Q is more of a, "dunk on the theists," sort of thing than I prefer but it too drives home a counter point to Philip Yancey's faith-biased views. In a similar vein here's Hitchens answering the same question (a bit angrily though since by this time he's answered this line of questioning many times in various ways): https://youtu.be/GQcGXBo8HP8
Well I mean he's not wrong...
...about the list.
Wish I could enjoy single player games. I need the constant contest and adrenaline of a multiplayer shooter to hold my interest. Last single player game I was able to tolerate was GTA, still never finished the story though. The Souls-Like games look cool but I know I'd be bored to tears trying to play one.
Had a video on in the bg that mentioned the chip earlier, I think the big deal was the error correction scales or improves with as the number of qubits in quantum systems increases over time. I was baking cookies when I had whatever video that was on so I could be misremembering but I think that was it.
Little known trick, when you misclick or get an error message and wind up with a page refresh and all your text gone you can often get it back just by hitting the back button in your browser. This has worked for me many times trying to make media uploads and getting errors that refreshed the page. YMMV tho depending on your browser and such.
Also hello other darker-than-white person.
Also also bonus points for anyone who can name the movie my gif is from and why it's the perfect gif for this thread.
The kinda music to bang your Elf girlfriend to after a long day of slaying orcs. 🤘
Admins saying it was a glitch. Kinda sus a glitch would somehow only effect the NSFW subs.