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It sounds like the shooters personality profile aligned more with a mass shooter than a political extremist or assassin. He wanted attention and to have his life taken in grand style more than he was targeting Trump specifically. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/politics/thomas-crooks-trump-fbi.html

Sounds like the replies we hear like “all lives matter” in response to reminders that “black lives matter.” It ignores the underlying baseline and status quo where equality is very much not already present. Is mental health important for all? Of course! Are there reasons mental health might be harder for women? Of course! When’s the last time you had to accept 80 cents on the dollar for the same work? When’s the last time you got accused of being a DEI hire or slut shamed and accused of sleeping your way to the top even though you were twice as smart and worked twice as hard as everyone else? When’s the last time you had to question whether it was safe to be alone at a gathering where everyone else was a different gender from you? Yes, mental health for all is important, but not everyone is working from the same starting position. See also: Hatred and violence shown toward LGBTQ communities. There’s good reason we tend to focus more on mental health for them than middle aged entitled white men with a fluffy 401K. https://morganemichael.com/for-educators/middle-school-resources-grades-6-8/privilege-and-empathy-lesson-how-your-socio-economic-position-impacts-how-well-you-do/

You said faith, but you meant trust. I trust that the sun will appear over the horizon in the morning. I trust that I will bleed when slashed with a knife. You must have faith to believe in god or gods. Try not to conflate the two. Good for John. He’s free to believe any absurd ridiculous thing he wants, much like you.

Exactly

Or, just a desire to not accept things as true without reason. Sure, it’s possible gods exist. Come back and chat with me when there’s reasons beyond mere faith to assume so.

The number of people who share the belief has no relevance on its truth or validity. Nor would I because we have evidence for life on planets, and understanding of the chemistry which leads to life, and the sheer magnitude of planets across the cosmos makes it rather likely that others have life too. You've put forward a false equivalence between your magical omnipotent being (which is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence) and “possible life elsewhere.”

I equally must have irrational motives for disbelieving in flying unicorns that shit rainbow sprinkles, and irrational motives for disbelieving in leprechauns. They rest on the same evidentiary footing as the thousands of gods laying dead in the graveyard of human mythology, and also whatever flavor of god you happen to believe in… the one that’s apparently led you to come here and litter every thread with proselytization and evangelism.

*we call them "love" and we call them "nature." I shouldn't post when in a rush lol

How about you start with defining it as something more than an ill-defined 3-letter word? Talk to 10 different people and you'll get 10 different ideas of what god means, and I don't mean "god is love" or "god is nature," because we already have words for those things. We call them "love" and we call them "god." Shoe-horning ambiguous god(s) in there does nothing to further our understanding. Agreed

There's not one correct answer here other than, "it depends." What is the size of the starting asteroid? Where would it have impacted? What are the sizes and velocities of the broken up pieces? Where do they impact? Details matter here on questions like this, and the answer to your question is maybe, maybe not.

Further evidence that the bible cannot possibly bet the source of human morality. Since humans review the commands of the bible and choose to accept only some of those commands while rejecting others, it's apparent that they must have a pre-existing moral framework against which to analyze and compare those commands. If the bible were the source, then all would need to be accepted equally, ergo the "yes this, not that" approach essentially ALL believers take confirm for us that bible itself cannot be the source of that moral framework. What is the source? Our existence as a tribal species learning from one another inside a culture or community which reinforces from birth what behaviors are allowed and which behaviors are not. Evolution then selects for social mores and ostracizes those who fail to adhere to them since separation from the group reduces access to food, protection, and potential mates.

In this case saying, “almost certainly not” is the most correct answer.

It’s illegal to laugh out loud in Hawaii. You have to keep it to a low ha.

Sometimes saying, "we don't yet know" is the most correct answer

At the same rate according to which observer?

I am sorry to hear of the challenges you are experiencing in your home country, but I don’t think this is the right site for you. All of your topics have discussed political and social issues in Iran. Most include lots of claims and little support. None have received responses or engagement from the community. There is clearly a global alignment happening right now with an axis of authoritarianism. Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, and others are pushing misinformation and disinformation, and I’d be happy to engage on what that might mean for all of us or how security bureaus might be able to help. To be clear, I’m personally choosing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I strongly suspect these threads from you are another attempt to push propaganda, bootstrap specific narratives into social media channels, and am mostly trying to decide whether you’re a human or bot.

I’m sure the list of things you’ve never thought of is nearly as large as the universe itself

As the universe is everything that suggests you owe nothing in taxes since nothing is deeper

Perhaps we should ask an accountant. Do economies have edges? Fun fact: James Webb is an exceedingly common name for CPAs, but none of them has anything to do with the telescope under discussion here.

Should I look at the inferior vena cava or the circumflex artery perhaps? What diameter means god is there, or is it perhaps a certain color? Maybe I’m looking for a penis since you called it him? Are you saying there’s a penis in my heart? Is it erect, or about to climax?

Which one(s)? How can it be measured?

Consider it a type of immune response

Wrong again. At least you’re consistent in your trollish nonsense.

Obvious troll is obvious

It wasn't an explosion. It was an expansion, and the universe doesn't care that you're incredulous about how it works.