I’m assuming you’re american/australian. According to pewresearch.org, the US have a tremendous 7.1% of its population that declares itself atheist or agnostic. So I’m not sure where or when the dominant anglo-saxon culture “threw away God”
Your post also assumes that believers are inherently more moral beings than unbelievers. Studies tend to show the opposite, and I can give you some reasons why: I’m the only one responsible for my actions, and no confession will ever erase my sins and magically open the afterlife’s gates for me. I also don’t believe anyone is automatically wrong and going to hell for picking another brand of monotheism. And once I die it’s finito, lights out, so you can bet your ass I do have some respect for my own life.
The idea that we’re all going to jump off a bridge or kill each others if some old book doesn’t tell us not to do so seems very strange to me. Are you telling me you’d jump without your beliefs and the threat of eternal torment looming over your eternal soul?
Your post also gave the impression that your god was fine with bullying and that it was only those amoral atheists that were recently starting to push against bullying. I know that’s not what you meant… but that’s what it implies, and it undermines your point that morality is going down the drain alongside religion.
I know I’m off-topic but don’t stone me please, it’s more interesting than XO or this thread’s subject (^:
the very fact your claiming foil hat , paranoia etc with NO basis of proof, PROVES your one of said bullies. Who bullies other people. there is NO delusion or paranoia.
I was speaking from past events things that already happened. AND expressing the needs for change to prevent a repeat of loss of life and extreme harm to another person.
my question to you is WHY not take steps to prevent such harm from happening again? only a fool goes on and allows others to repeat the exact same form of harm. Only a fool takes NO steps to keep people from repeating the harm done to them.
do you leave your cash out on table after someone steals it? NO you take steps to keep that from happening again.
your trying to discredit real risk, things that have already happened. AKA you were mugged and you do NOTHING to prevent a mugging from happening again. you get mugged over and over because you keep repeating the same mistakes not doing anything different.
this conversation is NOT for your enjoyment at the expense of someone else’s life and right to not be harmed by others.
Ive had people try to bully me over the most trivial things. This def isnt a community short on bullys. One time a dude tried to make fun of how i had only crafted two relics. And went on about how i should have more for my player level and that i was trash and so on and so forth. Im just sitting there like…“bruh…its cheaper to buy them than craft them.” as i sit on several sets of relics. People love to look down their nose at others.
Recent times? LoL…do some research dude. Youll find out your very wrong.
The dark ages werent called the dark ages because they were all happy and fun. When castles were sacked sometimes there were mass amounts of suicides because being taken alive meant far more horrors awaited you. People take their own lives far less now than in previous moments in history.
Hello guys,
Let’s try to not get into personal details on other player’s real life, specially health issues, even if we are all covered by an alias. Not on topic anyways.
Also, this thread doesn’t seems productive to put it that way, please stay appropriate and on-topic or it’ll be closed and we’ll all be able to move on the next one.
Partially because you’re not touching on what I was getting at.
Not at all.
Nope.
Again… nope.
True.
No matter the world view - religious or otherwise - if it doesn’t value human life, it’s probably not very helpful towards… you know… human life.
In nations that have become more secular, depression and suicide rates climb as well as the birth rate falling. Why is that?
It has less to do with the religion(s) and more to do with what evolution teaches.
If you are simply the result of evolution - which boiled down to its barest essence - essentially teaches that a human is simply the result of time (millions/billions of years), chance and matter (that delicious primordial ooze), then you’re really no more valuable than a rock. After all… that rock is the result of the same thing, but instead of it being a fancy ape, it’s a fancy clump of minerals. Whatever.
With only one exception, all major religions teach that life - human life in particular - is sacred. If you take away that sacredness, you’re left with peoples with a world view that literally holds nothing sacred.
That’s not to say that atheists or other secular minded people don’t hold life as sacred. That’s not what I’m saying. The WORLD VIEW… the philosophies that understanding of all of it… holds nothing as sacred.
Additionally, since that world view doesn’t hold anything as sacred, there’s no particular important mission or purpose to human life. This isn’t the point of view of some fundamentalist Bible bashing troglodyte. It’s proven itself out for over a century. It’s what Nietzsche was warning about when his character proclaimed “God is Dead” (it wasn’t a celebration of that fact, but a terrified warning). It’s why Jean Paul Sartre was so miserable (ever read Nausea?)
Once you remove the value of life from a person’s world view… and thereby remove the purpose(s) for living… you’re left with a pointless and worthless existence. Most people find value an purpose outside of the atheist/secular world view. Many do not. It’s an obvious sequitur to me.
Here’s a perspective that might help; the information that is available to other players about your account isn’t technically “yours,” but that info about you actually belongs to Targem, and is no longer “your private personal information.”
Also, the ability to initiate secret societies (hate groups) might be emboldened if players were allowed the anonymity to do so. Not to mention the issues War Thunder seems to periodically stir up along party lines. They have maybe crossed some lines, but then I don’t remember what it’s like to feel patriotic. Still, dumping national secrets about the military industrial complex is not something I would like to get sucked into, one way or the other.
My profile is as private as anything on the internet should be expected to be. Real player privacy would likely have to involve an actual game-board and some dice, probably.
They can laugh at my tin-foil hat all they want, but I’m going to tell you, that if you have a cell-phone you have no privacy at all where it matters. Never mind this game. The real bad-guys are at the window(s).
Having said that, this is the only place I’ve ever been maliciously attacked and had things stolen on line. People think the lanyards mean more than they do, I think.
I tell my kids, the grown-ups are all dead. That is to say, never take for granted that there is somebody with their schit together in charge of all of this. I’m not convinced there always is everywhere. You need to manage your own schit. I’ve met a lot of fcked up people with lanyards, badges, community status, and PHDs.
I still would want a larger profile so I can track progress across builds and weapon usage. I don’t mind that some of you might want to hid that stuff but I want to know how to quantify my own experience in the game.
Idiots are also those that hide their experiences. Wear it proudly. Learn from it. You are you, and you should be proud of it. You should have no shame in what you do in a video game.
Screw whatever anyone else has to think about it.
Your acting like we are talking about real life… we are not.
lol