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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.catoAtheism@lemmy.worldHe likes to watch
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    15 hours ago

    He’s the one that set up the constant need to eat in the first place. Without the system he created starvation wouldn’t even be a thing. He intentionally made the world so that millions of children would suffer from hunger and starvation every day.

    And it’s not like they have a choice. What’s a 4-year old supposed to do, get a job?

    “All-loving” my ass. He’s a sadistic asshole who gets off on causing suffering and grief. Of course he doesn’t exist, but how anyone could worship a being like that is beyond me.













  • I’ve been with every one of my pets when they were euthanized. It’s a horrible experience but I wouldn’t want it any other way.

    Good on you for being there. I know a vet tech and she says too many people take the easy way out and just drop them off at the vet’s office. Their sick animals spend their last few minutes scared and looking for their owners. It breaks her heart every time.


  • Technically he was probably already dead, but a guy on a bicycle was killed by a van right in front of my house. I heard a crazy noise followed by screaming so I went out to see. The guy was lying still by the side of the road. His bike was mangled about 30’ down the road where it had been dragged in the undercarriage. And his groceries for dinner that night were scattered along the gutter.





  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.catoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldBased
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    17 days ago

    By your logic, we can never know if drugs are in fact safe, because we can’t prove they’ll never have ill effects. Can’t prove a negative, after all.

    Yes, that’s exactly right. You can not prove that a drug is completely safe under all conditions because it’s impossible to test it under all conditions.

    You do this enough and you can say the drug is in fact safe

    “Safe” in this case does not mean a guarantee. You can say that the drug is safe enough for use. You can’t guarantee 100% safety, but you can say that the benefits greatly outweigh the risks. Vaccines are safe because the good they do overwhelms the dangers. However it dies not guarantee no side effects.


  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.catoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldBased
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    17 days ago

    lack of evidence is, itself, evidence that a thing does not exist.

    That’s not correct. However if we continually fail to find any evidence for its existence or any way it interacts or effects our reality, we can safely act as though it does not exist since it won’t change things at all. There could be a divine being out there, but until we have evidence that it interacts with our reality in some way, we can put it aside and go on with our lives.

    It does not change the truth of whether it actually exists somewhere or not.