/lit/ - Literature

he didn't have /r9k/ to help build his confidence

>>12326767
kek

Let's see how well you can talk to God, OP. But in seriousness, this makes me think there was a historical Moses of some sort, and that he had a speech impediment.

I can only imagine how narcissistic someone would have to be to imagine themselves worthy of speaking for God. Moses' reaction seems entirely normal.

>>12326762
>Hey Aaron, take charge for a minute while I got up the mountain. Don't forget, Yahweh is watching.
>Don't worry Moses, I got this covered.
>*five minutes pass*

What the fuck was his problem?

>>12326762
broke
>>12326853
woke

>>12326853
>why do all human organizations become corrupt
humans are shit, anon. they need constant supervision. that is the lesson.

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>>12326853
You know it's pretty amazing when you think about how we came from people who would literally bow down to a golden cow and call it a god, and people who thought that burning bushes spoke to them (probably just a poetic rendering of burning "herbs" "speaking" to them, i.e. natural fat blunts opening their consciousness) to a whole world where it is just natural to look at this kind of stuff and going "wtf are you doing, are you serious?".

I mean think about the fact that we as people used to be animals worshiping animals, sacrificing animals to these other animals we made into gods, and going from that to being the sort of animals that now make the kind technologies that can measure the fucking stars from billions of miles away. We've come so far I think people take it for granted that just a few thousand years ago (very very small amount of time in the grand evolution of the cosmos) we all would have thought that a golden statue of a cow was some magical deity.

We went from burning our virgin daughters on altars to statues due to nonsensical doctrines to creating laws and societies that allow our daughters to be successful CEOs of multi-billion dollar corporations. I mean, we've still got a long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of how far we've already come.

>>12326899
9/10 bait

>>12326899
Fucking yikes

>>12326899
>>>/r/elonmusk

>>12326899
Guess how I know you’re in middle school

>>12326899
I would unironically rather live in a world of gods and sacrifices.

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>>12327228
*sigh* this place is nothing but traditionalists larping perennialism purely for the sake of being contrarian

>>12326899
>implying we don’t still offer our children to Moloch at Planned Parenthood
>implying we don’t still listen to “all is well” soothsayers and false prophets like Pinker
>implying we don’t still mutilate our bodies in bizarre rituals akin to mark our in-group status

>>12327339
whoops, drop the “akin”

>>12326899
>I mean
>I mean
Yikes!

>>12326762
its a lot of pressure

>>12327339
dumb maga boomer

>>12327316
Modernism is a plague on humanity.

>>12328238
no, clinging to disproven and regressive, morally reprehensible ideologies is.

But then again, given the mechanistic nature of reality, I guess you can't help but be the myopic troglodyte that you are. It's just a shame that the Big Bang decided to arrange the particles so that billions of years later you and your ilk would arise

>>12328284
You can't bait me buddy ol' pal.

>>12328312
>Muh degenerate modern world
>Posts porn gifs

Typical hypocrital amerimongrel larper autist

>>12327796
this desu

OP, are you saying that if you were approached by some supernatural phenomenon and asked to do a bunch of shit, you'd be ready to do it without question, without even considering you may be having a nervous breakdown of sorts? I'd probably do the same thing, man--try and bargain with my hallucination to go away and find someone else to champion.

>>12326899
We could already see stars from thousands of light years away though. What are you on about?

>>12328284
This bait started of decent but you lost your touch half way through. Reddit scientists are autistic but not literal robots.

>>12326762
let my people go

>>12328365
>Reddit scientists are autistic but not literal robots.
I wouldn't be too sure of that, anon

>>12326899
It wasn't really a burning bush?

>>12326899
people this dumb should be killed on sight

>>12326762
>wtf was Moses' problem
He was a poor speaker. And they wouldn’t believe him. And he was scared. And what if he couldn’t do it?

>>12326800
Of course there was a historical Moses. The Old Testament is a work of non-fiction.

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>>12328352
Get off my Christian board

>>12326828
We are his children ,it's not narcissistic to ring your mum up m8

>>12327228
based

>>12326899
Lol

>>12326899
not good

>>12326899
cringe

>>12326899
Fucking ARTFUL bait my lad

>>12326899
Put me in the screencap

>>12328284
Since atheists only recognize value-free, mechanistic, cause-and-effect explanations, they can only define the supernatural and the religious as somehow opposed to that. Of course God doesn't make any sense when mechanistic science is the limit of your ability to reason about life, but I have never encountered a serious theologian or philosopher of religion who would argue for God on those terms.
The obsession with morality of harm and utilitarian/consequentialist ethics falls out of that same worldview. For them it's rational and objective to turn moral questions into the mathematics of harm avoidance or hedonism. But they don't ever grasp how their supposedly "objective" moral reasoning is lifted almost verbatim from Christian thinking and supposes Christian values. Even the opposition between morality and causality originates in the writings of people like Locke, Leibniz, and Kant, and so does the fixation on establishing universal moral principles and values.
I'm not familiar with virtue-ethical arguments about theodicy, but it makes sense that an ethics of virtue would be less troubled by the problem of evil. Virtue ethicists focus on the particulars of the individual and the situation rather than universal principles or goods, and they aren't so hung up on the distinction between facts and values, so I can see how they would have a lot more space to allow things like evil existing along with God. Fedoras would have to concern themselves with character and personal moral development to be good naturalistic virtue ethicists, and good luck getting them away from their waifu-pillows.

>>12330667
Nigga I ain't reading all that shit

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>I have no argument to offer so I will just continue my Christ-LARP

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https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1093373/jewish/Why-Did-G-d-Make-Moses-Stutter.htm

>>12326899
Godly bait, well played.

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>>12327316
God is literally real. Prove me wrong.

>>12334165
>I think a pink polka-dotted dodo is eating hotdogs on Jupiter. Prove me wrong. :)

He consumed too much onions based products

>>12334201
i hope this is bait

>>12334201

I liked the part where Moses basically tells G-d that he's done with this shit, and G-d has to beg him to continue. Moses was fucking Chad.

>that time Moses killed an Egyptian for being mean to the jew slaves

>>12326899
>t.Illuminati Shill copy-pasta
Yikes!

>>12334201
There are infinite types of arbitrary beings like yours that can be conjured up. God is necessary, transcending everything, the greatest being. Brainlet Russell couldn’t see this.

>>12334165
You have the burden of proof.

>>12326877
>humans are shit
I wonder in who's image we were made

>>12335768
Wow so clever anon, I bet you get your boomer dad with that one at dinner all the time!

>>12326762
he had a speech inpediment

>>12335768
BTFO will G-d ever recover

>>12336588
>G-d

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