As someone who works outside most of the day, this meme is bullshit. It's hot as fuck out here and it's not even summer yet.
Outside is where the mosquitos live.
I feel attacked
Perhaps I should go touch grass
Edit: Fun fact: it's allergy season and I'm now itchy. 10/10 would recommend touching grass anyways.
I’ll go outside, but I am NOT putting the phone down.
At least put pants on
I walk outside as God intended.
Balls swinging, crocs squeaking.
no
Ok, just look out for that p...
Oh, never mind. Should I call an ambulance?
What was the P? Pole? Pothole? Pussycat?
Why the fuck would an """all-knowing god""" need to test people?
Only the most benevolent of beings test people.
I mean, I really do NOT defend religion, because over all, it really is a crock of BS twisted history and Baby's First Philosophy rolled in to garbage cults.
... Though there ARE multiple reasons an "all-knowing" god would test their creations, even if they "knew the results". This happens all the time in the real world. Some engineers just enjoy seeing their creations do something, even if it's doomed to be a prototype. Software engineers test their stuff all the time when they "know" what it will do.
Hell, 99.9% of science itself is getting a solid idea before you run the experiment. Remember: scientists test hypotheses, not hair-brained ADHD shower thoughts.
So while religion is overall total BS for dummies, individual components DO make sense, in their own way. It wouldn't be so popular if the pieces didn't make more sense than the whole.
There is a big difference between getting a solid idea for what will happen before testing and literally being able to see the future as clearly as the present. If a software developer literally can see the future and already knows what error will occur if he tries to run the code then he would not run it. Or to use the engineer example, let's say someone is creating a humanoid robot which is still in the early phases of development but the creator believes that it has just reached a point where it is able to sort of balance for a second. First of all, he can't KNOW that it's at that point without testing. And even if he has a very good idea that it is probably at that point he certainly won't know exactly how it is going to fail eventually during the test. If the designer is all-knowing then he would literally know every force that is applied to the robot as it attempts to stand, the exact way that it will stumble down to the minutiae, etc. There is no reason, not for fun, not for learning, literally no logical reason to run that test in that case.
I also agree that religion is a bunch of BS but if I were to try to come up with a justification to the question of why an all-knowing creator would test their creation, I would say that it isn't for the sake of the creator but rather to teach the person they are testing about themselves or some BS like that. That being said, I think there are many many ways that you can poke holes in the logic of a creator being all-knowing, just, and all-powerful; all three of which are claimed by believers. Alternatively, you can also focus on the all-knowing aspect specifically by illustrating that it is impossible for free will to exist if god is all-knowing. At least not the version of free will that most people refer to. If you want to claim that free will can exist even if there is only one possible time line then that's another argument.
The best lies are always made up of pieces of truth. It's true for fiction books too (and I don't mean the Bible here), the best ones are those that make characters and situations believable
Internal Logic is something many, many people utterly fail to understand. I fail to understand how those morons think, probably because they quite literally are not thinking.
The Bible is absolutely RIFE with contradictions and broken logic. If I were inclined to conspiracy, I would say religion is EXACTLY the test a species should pass before they are respected. Fall for religious tripe? Sorry, not developed enough to join the adults at the table!!
Thing is, human brains were never optimized for critical thinking and seeking logic. Instead, were optimized for social behaviour and seeking validation. Logic is something that has to be brought intentionally. By default, you just end up with whatever you described
Because humans experience a lot of growth during trials and tribulations.
Fuck that; he's all powerful, if he wants me to improve he should use his divine magic and do it himself.
I don't consider myself an atheist because that whole position and subculture seems awfully confident about something that can't actually be diagnosed.
But that said, if there IS a god that is "all powerful" and "all knowing" then he sure as shit isn't watching my sorry ass all day and judging how many times I think about boobs.
My God, if he exists, oversees quasars annihilating entire galaxies with cosmic blowtorches of the focused fire of a billion stars. He is interwoven in the nebular that birth new planets and civilizations. He exists at all points in time simultaneously. He knows everything I will ever do, or all possible alternatives that I may ever choose, and my reasons for my decisions. He doesn't need to test anyone. He doesn't need me to prove shit. He doesn't "need" anything, he is absolutely unknowable and inhuman and incapable of being harnessed into human motivations and emotions.
My God is scary and far more powerful than everyone else's God. My God can beat up your God.
edit: I don't care. I am not interesting in being in your club, I don't want to belong, you can call me what you want, that's my whole point, nothing you say matters, none of your stupid labels and need to belong matters. It's all utterly pointless, so your "GOTCHA" comments about the definitions of words are utterly lost on me in this context. Just save your energy and go do something good for someone else.
Ah yes, I've been here before... Atheism actually does not mean you believe god's don't exist. It literally means, and I quote...
a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods.
I bet that's you, isn't it? Don't reply... Just think on it.
Maybe not, but ceiling cat is watching you masturbate.
So your God is just the universe. Which we already know exists. So we don't have to believe in it, because it is real already. Therefore, you are an atheist too
Ah yes, the Mother Theresa approach. You know, she accepted modern medicine near the end, despite denying it to others. This is more often than not the truth of this subject amongst the "devout".
Maybe the test says less about the tester, and more about the testee.
Going outside? What for, exactly?
To experience the anthropogenic global warming.
So boooring...
Just be confident and have a shower. 99% of your problems will be solved if you just did that.
Jokes on you, Jesus. I'm outside on my phone.
The grass here is spiky and horrible. It'll break the skin, it's basically walking on occasional thorns. I don't recommend touching grass in all situations, and I need to move
Have you considered shoes?
Outside? But that's where the evil tree pollen is D:
No.
I went outside yesterday and the mosquitoes almost carried me off - and it's not even full summer yet.
Stupid warm winter. Stupid global warming.
Sure, go out for a walk into town or the forest, or a bike ride. Meet nobody who wants to talk to you, take photos that nobody wants to see or just sit and listen to birdsong. The one thing I have gained out of going outside frequently is the realization that we are one organic system, every plant, every animal, unified by the fact that every living creature has a finite life span. So my body too will rot and decay, I will no longer exist in the present and that is beautiful, for however much I hate my life, it is no different from that of a squashed bug on the dirtpath.
Go outside so you can melt like an ice cream cone in the sun.
Outside is overrated. We have food and shade and air conditioning and fans and screens to keep bugs out and real computers (fuck phones) and videogames and books and all sorts of shit inside. Outside is a nightmare of garbage weather, bugs, skin cancer, strangers, and who knows how much random bullshit you can get into.
Fuck outside.
What if you pitched a tent in your living room and got inside it with a second phone in your other hand?
looks like all of these self-improvement-incel-bros memes. thanks, i'll stay inside. it's safe here.
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