It was clear what you meant, but you left an opportunity for someone to be technically correct and they jumped all over it

Mmm, that reminds me, I haven’t had lunch yet oink oink

Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.

I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

How is the dog shitting in the house the Roomba’s fault?

Please use spoilers or mark NSFL

Sorry, but talking about how dental care sucks in other places too, in a post about dental services being rendered in exchange for statutory rape, sure does sound like making excuses.

That’s nice, good job muddying the waters.

In how many of those other countries are minors tempted to perform sexual acts on government officials to receive said shitty dental care?

Anyone who isn’t the GOP base

The gist of the New Testament is “everyone thinks the old God is vengeful and mean, so we’re gonna send a new one down to rehab his image, but in reality, he’s (literally) still the same old vengeful bastard who condones violence, rape, and killing, but somehow got billions of people to look the other way on that because he says love thy neighbor once”

That’s what I get from my reading of it anyways

You don’t have to twist Jesus to make him seem like a bastard. He kinda preaches love, sometimes, but also preaches doing a bunch of shitty, immature, and sometimes downright heinous shit.

If it had been anyone else, they’d have been named a grave threat to national security and it’s pretty likely they’d never be seen or heard from again.

Engaging with the text the way a believer does means having blind faith, which, as a non-believer, is difficult for me to do.

I think it’s silly for a loving, forgiving God to curse anything, whether that’s a single tree, or an entire country, or whatever else. I think it’s totally valid to point out the hypocrisy of this allegory, regardless of what you think the subtext may be. It’s an easy example to pull up that demonstrates a contradiction in the Bible, that’s all.

Also I’m not dunking on anyone. I rarely talk to anyone about religion because it’s such a sticky subject with so many people. Just trying to give some context and maybe a little justification for using this particular allegory to poke some fun at believers.

That’s sort of the while point of pointing out the silliness of the fig tree story though. We poke fun at it for being ridiculous because, well, it is ridiculous, and religious people are in turn ridiculous for following a supposed holy text with such ridiculous parables in it.

If I’ve replied to you once why start with this:

Because your one reply to me claimed that I was saying a bunch of stuff that I never said in my one comment?

Like, it should be obvious what’s going on here

My account is over two years old with thousands of other comments. My writing style is vastly different than anyone else’s in this thread. I’m not creating new accounts to avoid blocks. I’m not out to get you. I’m flattered, but it’s not that serious.

My guy, you wanna stop putting words in my mouth and have an honest, productive discussion, I’m all for it. Otherwise, don’t bother replying.

Also, pay attention to usernames when replying. That was my first comment in this chain, but I have a feeling you thought you were replying to someone you’d already been talking to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

What you’re talking about, with using IVF to reduce the chances of genetic conditions, is called prenatal screening. And while it relies on genomics, and even borrows some concepts from Eugenics, it is not Eugenics, at least as far as most people understand and use that term. Eugenics is widely understood to be the pseudo-scientific shield fascists frequently hide behind to justify bigotry, forced sterilization, genocide, and other atrocities. You may think this is just a semantic argument over an umbrella term that can cover anything to do with improving the human genome, but modern geneticists are very careful to disassociate anything they do with the term “Eugenics”, due to the authoritarian implications it carries.

There’s an opportunity there to invent a homoerotic subplot and use it in a sequel to The Producers.

Springtime For Hitler II: Winter Is Coming

I feel like we’d see a lot more progress if these types of comments were higher up in the chain, instead of buried at the end of a conversation. I see a lot of ridiculing people for not knowing this stuff, a la: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I understand it’s the ignorant masses’ responsibilities to educate themselves. But like, we could all stand to make it easier on one another instead of jumping down each other’s throats all the time.

Also this isn’t directed at you in particular, just in general. I just liked your response, and I wish more people would give answers like this.

Darn