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quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Scott Adams has passed away (author of Dilbert comic strips)

www.youtube.com

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Scott Adams has passed away (author of Dilbert comic strips)

www.youtube.com

quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/858935

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  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    And his final act was to jump in line for cancer treatment, possibly dooming someone else in the process.

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      It is true that virtually all of his predictions were wrong. But he was right about one thing: his death was unavoidable. And now he will forever “get the hell away from Black people”, following his own advice. You gotta hand it to him, he did what he said he would, eventually, if you squint. Though, his last-minute conversion to Christianity might subvert even that.

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        Dilbert has said the Shaha (الشَّهَادَةُ) in the moment before his death and has ascended.

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Though, his last-minute conversion to Christianity might subvert even that.

        he wasn’t Christian? Not that would make a difference in the afterlife.

        • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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          In the linked video, his final message states that he converted due to the cost-benefit ratio and also to satisfy his Christian friends.

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            Lol, I grew up Christian. There was a fairly common belief that people that did this were not true believers and that god would see through their lie. (Not that all death bed conversions were invalid to be clear, just ones done for the reason of living unchristian, then still getting the reward, while still not believing.)

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              god would see through their lie

              Yeah if you’re doing it for social pressure that makes sense but if you’re like “maybe there’s an off chance this omniscient God thing is real” it seems fairly pointless

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            It’s so funny when militant atheists find religion when they get old and actually start thinking about death.

            • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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              Im a militant atheist who can’t stop thinking about death. Too bad the terror of the unknowable void isn’t going to make me believe in shit I know isn’t real

              • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                Im a militant atheist

                No such thing, just admit you’re an anti-theist pls. You cant be militantly indifferent to something lol

                • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                  🙄

                • Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                  You certainly can militantly oppose belief in the supernatural. Atheism doesn’t mean indifference, it describes a lack of belief in any god. How strongly one feels about atheism isn’t contained within the word atheism.

                  Anyway it’s splitting hairs because anti-theism is good and correct

                  • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                    The prefix A is indifference and the prefix anti is opposition. And if yall cant even care to be literate enough to articulate the position you think you hold, maybe rethink what you think you know. Its like the difference between asocial and antisocial. It makes no sense to say you are militantly asocial. No sense. But what do i expect? Westerners can’t read. Like western religions are pretty awful, but westerners act like they know everything while famously knowing nothing.

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            Slimy worm till the end. Huh.

            Sounds like it was pure social pressure. Otherwise he would have just cited the basardized version of Descartes’ argument religious people keep vomiting out.

            • casskaydee [she/her]@hexbear.net
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              Pascal?

              • oliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                Oh right it was Pascal’s Wager. Hmm maybe it wasn’t a bastardized retelling.

                Descartes might’ve had something a but more nuanced.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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          I mean if he was a frothing protestant evangelical then it would lol. They straight up will tell you you could be a literal Demon incarnated in human skin for your entire life but the moment you say bleh “sowwy fwor bwing a mweenie supply side jesus” with your literal dying breath you get a free ticket into heaven.

          • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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            Yeah that’s what I was taught growing up. “Literally all that determines whether you get into Heaven and Hell is whether or not you are in a state of having accepted Jesus at the moment of your death.”

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              At least the Calvinists and the Catholics have more qualifiers for getting a ticket to your heavenly slice of pie in the sky, shit.

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            Comrade Alaskaball, why do you have a scarlet A next to your name?

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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              It’s a lemmy symbol for “aubergine” because I am an aubergine enjoyer

              • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                Gross

                spoiler

                Fr*nch

                • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                  fine, does brinjal work?

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              we brand our admins so they can’t hide their shame

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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                Moo 🐄

              • oliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                panting

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