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John Buck 🇺🇸

1 year

@alphasymp @FiggyTater @WhenBeliefDies Here's a short articulation of what I call the participation theodicy. There's links in the follow-up, of short papers I've written as well as a couple discussions I've had with people going over it.

John Buck 🇺🇸

@WriterJohnBuck

1 year

@graciousathiest @jonsteingard @BissetteHunter @RealAtheology The one I find most plausible is my own, that the greatest thing God could do would be to create a perfect world through the contribution of creatures bringing it about. But, such would require initially creating an imperfect world with creatures where evils can occur.

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3 years

Atheists make fun of prayer for being a waste of time and energy, then will go talk to a therapist once a week for $150/hr.

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@Gravantus You remember that time in your childhood when you recognized you were self-aware? Maybe they're just still in that stage.

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@nothnghppens Dang, that’s a pretty good impression.

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The Christian denominations I find most plausible, without much thought: 1. Catholicism 2. Eastern Orthodoxy 3. Anglicanism 4. Lutheranism 5. Evangelical 6. Methodism 7. Latter Day Saints 8. Presbyterianism 9. Baptists 10. Puritanism

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6 months

@moonlit_misfit @Richard_Vixen If she thinks that her child will be most happy in the lifestyle which she herself is living out, why shouldn’t she encourage her daughter in those same footsteps?

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@adam22 Yeah, and a life spent doing drugs and treating people like masturbatory tools is better than a life trying to make the world better and raising the next generation in a healthy home.

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@defi_raf @TheOmniLiberal sus

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@5Solas2 Hey, remember when God himself became incarnate in physical form as a man? He wasn’t blurry then, you don’t need to misrepresent him now.

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@biboofficial

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@metathomist I love British people, they have such funny accents.

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@ZealousSeraphim Everyone wants to join the most BASED religion up until it demands any sort of sexual constraint that affects them personally.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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2 years

@decoyrobot Can't forget this Oner with so many different things going on. Masterpiece.

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4 years

The level of anger directed at the media from these protestors was alarming. As always, I will tell a fair and unbiased story today.

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@MollieEBryant Must be sad making fun of a young man whose mother defends him.

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4 years

@knight_atlantic @QuinTertullian This picture makes feminism sound like some post-apocalyptic event that took place.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

To clarify, this is not what I meant by this tweet. I intended to point out how some atheists might fail to realize the therapeutic benefits of prayer/reflection, despite performing similar practices in speaking with a psychiatrist.

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@WriterJohnBuck No, it appears to me you’re saying that people criticize prayer as useless but participate in a useless activity themselves.

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@Sachinettiyil I really like this image of the two of them from the night.

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@jamie_elizabeth I chose to not be white, but now everyone is yelling at me for doing blackface. smh

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@StrangestMedia

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@Bahai144 @EricRWeinstein @rezaaslan The point he's making is that it is wrong to assign 'punchable' to faces.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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1 year

Me: I think it is always wrong to torture babies for fun. Utilitarians: Well, hang on! Just how much fun are we talking about here?

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3 years

@DrJenGunter >says to use medical terms >refers to human fetuses as ‘zombies’

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4 years

@mxdpoet @TheBigG71 @PaisleyThomson So I guess this settles it then. Fetuses do indeed have souls, even while in the womb!

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@mischiefanimals Big kitty

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

Christ is risen! He has defeated Death, by death. Last night I have entered into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Happy Easter!

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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Please pray for my sister in the hospital, she was in an accident.

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4 years

@sadydoyle "I normally abide by this ethical-principle, but I'm willing to make an exception for my political enemies."

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Never ask a woman her age, a man his income, or a naturalist what 'natural' means.

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3 years

@avgvstb @RespectElves @rodinrodin7 "Sustained. Court is adjourned."

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@MartianMarxist The shopping cart test.

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@DustinTL @GlinkLive Glad the nerds are finally getting bullied again.

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@The_Hellenist What sins did he commit?

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@rabbitdoingwork Finally, a cat gets to feel what it’s like to try to walk with another animal weaving between their legs.

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4 years

@AbortionStories That'a so wild. I didn't realize nature also used forceps to crush the baby's skull inside the uterus, pull out their limbs one by one, and reconstruct the infant out on the table to make sure all the pieces are there.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

I place it into the determinists hands to provide a defeater to my intuitive seeming.

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@Briyian23 @TheOmniLiberal Zoophilia arc?

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@subgap @pewdiepie I did my part.

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5 years

@dcexaminer Win-win situation then. Their customers are happy not buying their products, and the ceo is also happy they're not buying their products. All's well that ends well.

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@emptytesticles *chef’s kiss*

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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9 months

@CosmicSkeptic Not deductively, but abductively. God’s existence would be the simplest explanation of: ▫️Moral agents ▫️Harmony between the mental and physical ▫️Improvement within the universe over time ▫️Life-permitting constants ▫️Contingent reality

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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2 years

Cameron from Capturing Christianity is entering the Catholic Church!!! Very Important Updates

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Patreon (monthly giving): https://www.patreon.com/capturingchristianityOne-time Donations: https://capturingchristianity.com/donateMy interview tomorrow with...

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@FakePundit @AndrewYang

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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4 years

@AtheistRepublic This is a pretty dank Christian meme

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@FonroquesT @adam22 Great, so now we have two methods and can analyze which attempt is more successful at incentivizing those goods compared to the other. It would be nice if appealing to common sense were more effective than it is, but, c'est la vie.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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What’s your favorite philosophical position you think to be false?

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@lporiginalg “Oh, you won’t let us show smut to minors? Well then you can’t have any at all!”

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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1 year

She’s woken up and is responsive to questions by nodding her head and squeezing her hand. They’ll take out her intubation tube later this morning and take her off the heavier anesthetic. She’s looking much better!

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She’s in stable condition currently but suffered brain hemorrhaging so is being kept in an induced coma for at least 24 hours. Thank you all for your well-wishes.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

If space big, why god real?

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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5 years

@AtheistRepublic this is straight-up just a Christian meme

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@primalpoly I didn't know about the death-games thing they did. That surprised me.

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@DonnelVillager It was very funny.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@PhysInHistory The human brain, since it’s one of the few things we’re sure of that has any felt experience. It’s the very means by why we know all things that exist within the world.

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@FloodingLong Catholics are largely in agreement with Protestants on justification (see the joint declaration on the doctrine of justification).

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@MarkMoonfang @RCNonsense @WokePreacherTV Being the mother of Christ, who is king of heaven, she is the queen mother of heaven.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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2 years

The commodification of human persons is an inherent evil that must be denounced by all.

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Gay couple who wanted a son sue IVF clinic after surrogate gives birth to daughter

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

I find it funny that Jordan Peterson has been associated with the Red Skull, since I always thought of Peterson’s relationship to Christianity from this moment in Infinity War.

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5 years

@FonroquesT @adam22 Simple. Religions attempt to disincentivize the former,while promoting the latter.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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I don't see how penal substitution theory can be squared with any view of hell: If we deserve eternal torture, but Jesus wasn't eternally tortured, then he didn't receive our punishment. Same goes for annihilation, isolation or purgation.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@thenon_theist @catholiccom He's set his price.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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I was happily surprised to learn that the philosopher Tim O’Connor had recently (re)Converted to Catholicism! I was honored to attend mass with him today after the conference.

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3 years

@Kate_Kelly_Esq @jamielmanson @Catholic4Choice @OrdEquality One of the earliest (dated 50-100AD) teachings for Christian doctrines and practices, the Didache, explicitly denounces abortion.

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@Dinnerbone @Vechs I made DinnerBunny http://t.co/PVJXqG9k2j

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@Friended4Ever @literaturedevil She should join a union.

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@Comontwiter lowest effort post on their part.

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@No2Sovereignty Parallelograms are the work of the devil.

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@KashJackson2018 @NickJFuentes Shaming doesn't work on those with nothing left to lose.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@misterduby The recent animated Spider-man film did this progressively throughout the film.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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Oh, you believe in free will. Okay... What *kind* of free will do you believe in?

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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6 years

@GrizCocks @Jamierodr10 Black Friday gets earlier and earlier every year.

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2 years

@costiwhinn I'm happy that Zack is on fire for the Lord, but I'm afraid he misunderstood the teachings of the Catholic church, perhaps from poor confirmation or from those that misrepresent the church's teachings. I'd hope that Zack'd come to learn the truth of the church Christ established.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@olivesagan I'd rather act as a Christian and be wrong than act as an atheist and be right.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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Can't believe Cameron hosted a debate between an atheist and a theist over whether demons were real, and the theists' argument was 'Because the bible says so."

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@jojammss Still can’t quite overcome the uncanny valley. I can tell that’s not a real person.

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Got to see Dr. Rob Koons in person present an Aristotelian account of quantum mechanics at KU. Great stuff!

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@BlazeswordP @PizzaByEddie @shoe0nhead Creating humans just to harvest their organs is in fact wildly immoral.

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@Salon Maybe they can #learntocode

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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While I'm not sure whether I shall be Catholic or Orthodox as of yet, I'm fairly sure that I will not be protestant.

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The fact that people grow inside other people is incredible.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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I entered into the Catholic Church last year, after being raised evangelical Hebrew roots, then discerning Eastern Orthodoxy for two years. I eventually found Catholicism able to answer all the issues I found with the other sects, …

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@kwhitaker_ Damn, I wish I had some property I could dig a tunnel on.

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@AtivaFofa @FeministsASH @gambiarrasbrasi Because women are really bad workers, that's why they earn less.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

Post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey, no matter how cringe.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@ActualCorn @AlaskanBuffalo

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@AleMartnezR1 The reason I ask is because if the middle premise is analytic, it could be understood as a conditional statement, which would mean this was a hypothetical syllogism. If it's synthetic, then this argument would only work against people that already accept that God exists in such a…

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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4 years

Paulogia often accuses Christians of believing things "just because" they're in the Bible, then regularly dismisses things just because they're in the Bible.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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3 years

My compilation of atheist debater, Tom Jump, saying dumb stuff is nearing 10K views. Check it out if you haven't yet for some laughs.

Tom Jump's Biggest BLUNDERS

Videos:Dr. Randal Rauserhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31pq3oay0WwAsk Yourselfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf1ugCMK_v8Ask Yourself Discord - Doormanhttps...

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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Look who I found in Huston

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Question for Protestants: Why did Jesus change Simon’s name to Peter?

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3 years

Whenever talking with someone on a topic which you disagree on, always remember to repeat back to them what they said in a condescending tone of voice, that way they know that you fully understood their position.

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John Buck 🇺🇸

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@JhWesten is this a real photo??

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@Catholic4Choice Pro-lifers do want everyone to only become pregnant when they choose to do so, and not to have that position imposed upon them They also want the fetus in the womb to grow up into a human person, and not have the mother's choice to abort them be imposed upon them.

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Stop saying 'quantum mechanics disproves the principle of cause and effect'. You sound like Deepak Chopra making shit up to defend your position.

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Advice to Thomists: if you cannot express a concept without using Latin terms, you probably don’t understand the concept very well.

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@exRheturn He’s on Twitter now. @ChrisLangan6

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I am now 1/4 of a century old.

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Why did Jesus change Simon’s name to ‘Peter’?

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What living in a society does to a mf

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Top 10 most influential thinkers on me 1. Thomas Aquinas 2. William James 3. Friedrich Nietzsche 4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 5. Nasim Taleb 6. Dale Carnegie 7. Jordan Peterson 8. Alasdair Macintyre 9. Ted Kaczinski 10. George Berkeley

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@AnimeBibleVerse Is Jesus going super-saiyan or somethin?

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@luissaltwater I actually put it above Baptists. You can either interpret it as a sympathy I have towards Mormons, or, my absolute despise against Calvinists.

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