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A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • More like our very existence as sentient, conscious creatures on a rock orbiting a star in the vast emptiness of space contained in a umiverse doesn't make sense in the first place, so any attempt to explain it would barely make sense anyway.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • You may be right.

    If a god does exist, then bad things are part of its higher morality, or evil design. If a god doesn't exist, then who cares? Why waste so much energy disproving its existence? Just ignore the crazy religious people, and try and help make the world better. Those people may waste time praying, or not doing anything to help suffering and then act high and mighty, but that will NEVER stop. Religion has and always will exist. It's a way for people to cope with their insignificance, cope with unfairness, and grapple with the concept of death and accepting its inevitablity. If you want to feel and be better than them by actually helping humanity go for it. But at the end of the day people can believe what they will and that's ok. But whether or not there is a god, despising or looking down on people for believing is just as productive as you believe praying is.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • My point is that none of it makes sense. Our existence and consciousness in a vast universe doesn't make sense. So at the end of the day, who cares what someone else believes to cope with that? Bad shit happens, people will explain it was for one purpose or another, but at the end of the day bad shit just happens and we should do our best to stop it, regardless of whos fault it is.

    It's so weird. Athiests claim to not believe in a god but then blame a god for when bad things happen, asking believers why their god would let it happen. Why do they care about what an imaginary god lets happen? Some sick fuck murdered a bunch of people, who gives a flying fuck what some random religon's god says about it?

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • You're missing my point. It doesn't matter. None of it makes sense. It makes just as much sense to believe in a god as it does to not believe in one, because at the end of the day it's about an individuals coping with the unfairness of life, the inexplicable natute of existence and consciousness, and the inevitability of death. It's about fulfilling an individuals need for purpose and place and whatever makes you most comfortable and gives you peace at the end of the day, fine. Trying to convince one another's personal fantasies for our purpose in life is like trying to prove someone's favorite food shouldn't be their favorite food. It's all personal.

    So this kind of post confuses me. Who gives a fuck what people believe at the end of the day as long as it's not hurting someone else and it gives the person peace. If one person's beliefs don't make sense to you or bring you peace, then you should believe something else. I don't get this hating on believers or non believers. Who cares?

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • Sure, but the concept itself is that whatever entity it is knows better, so the fact you don't undetstand has a purpose in the entity's "grand scheme".

    What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter because as humans we're all just trying to make sense of ourselves and our place in the universe. The fact we exist is perplexing, and however we decide to deal with that fact is up to each individual, and that's ok.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • Or maybe they have an afterlife of imeserable bliss to offset the injustice they experienced in life. There can always be a different reason thought of, but to conclude to one or the other side is illogical. As humans we want to know definitively and either side accepts their position as truth because it's most comfortable. But in reality it's ok to accept people's beliefs one way or another because at the end of the day we're just trying to make sense of our illogical and improbable existence.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • I think the fundamental issue with this is that it presumes that our understanding of morality is perfect. If an all-knowing, all-powerful God acted contrary to our understanding of morality, or allowed something to happen contrary to our understanding of morality it would make sense for us to perceive that as undermining our understanding of God, making him imperfect. An all-knowing, all-encomposing God may have an understanding that we as mortals are incapable of understanding or perceiving.

    It presumes to know a perfect morality while also arguing that morality can be subjective. It doesn't make sense, just like an irrational belief in a God. I think the best way to go about this is to allow people to believe how they want and stop trying to convince people one way another about their beliefs. People get to believe differently and that is not wrong.

    Edit: holy shit those reddit comments are full of /r/iamverysmart material lmfao

  • Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure
  • not despised, but i think the Apple Watch injunction really hurt them because it was around the holiday season. That, and the general consumer pretty much knew there wasn't anything new with the new iPhone that warranted an upgrade. Even my rich, boomer dad said he didn't see why it would be worth it to upgrade and he always gets the newest models.

  • Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits
  • That's not true at all. Are members of the Church of Jesus Christ misguided in how they treat their fellow members and their youth? Yes. But its fundamental teachings (not the toxic traditions of the members) are one of peace, love, and hope. This type of comment is rude, and offensive, and if it were regarding another group this kind of comment would be downvoted. But because it's against a religion it's ok to shit on their beliefs? This sentiment only breeds toxicity, and if we really want to help others who are affected by the toxic behaviors of all groups, we need to start with ourselves and how we treat (and look at) those whose beliefs differ from our own.

  • VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it
  • I played VR and had a blast. It was usually the ones that were mounted to the ceiling at a mall arcades. I could play no big deal for hours. My brother in law got a vr headset for Christmas and I tried to use it and got unbelievably sick after 20 minutes of playing it.

    I played super hot, some moving zombie game, and that plank game on thw vr headsets at mall arcades with no problem moving around, twisting, and moving fast. I played a stationary puzzle game on my bil's. I dont know what causes the sickness but it was veey bad on his unit. I womder if the suspension at the mall arcades made the difference, rather than having a free roaming headset.

  • Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps
  • I want to have this level of belief. After Netflix benefitting from their enshittification, I believe this will just become the new norm and I'll just be pushed further from societal norms because I'm not willing to shell out for all of this bullshit, while the vast majority of society is. I want to believe these companies will fail in their ventures to treat their customers like shit, but if I've learned anything it's that society will do anything for their shit.

  • Does anyone wish they had the same community feel that Stardew does?

    I've tried to become more connected with my community by going to activities around Halloween or Christmas time, or just general activities with the people I associate with. I just wish--and I know this is going to sound weird--there were more real people like Lewis the Mayor who organize community events in real life where I can take my family and participate in holidays with the community.

    I'm going to try and do more things like that with my family and our friends, I've always loved the community feel that Stardew emulates. I want that for my family.

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    Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame? **UPDATE**

    I've subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My "Subscribed" feed only contains a few of the same posts that I've seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in "Active", posts from the same communities as the ones in "Hot" in New and no other communities, and pretty much only posts from the Meme's community I unsubscribed from when sorted by "All". I also see a majority of posts barely have upvotes or comments on them at all from the "bigger" communities. Is this just the growing pains of this site? Am I still doing lemmy wrong? Is it the instance I've chosen to join?

    UPDATE I want to thank everyone who posted and gave me helpful advice on this matter. It turns out that there are still lots of people here on Lemmy with me, I just couldn't see you because I was sorting my feed incorrectly. I'm excited that there are more people here and I'm excited to continue to contribute to Lemmy with you! Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it. The solutions are to continue to subscribe, contribute to my favorite communities, and sort by top day, 12, and 6 hours. It really helped liven up my feed!

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