WetGeek I have no idea what a 'skeptical materialist' is in that cartoon but it does go a long way to equate these Olde creation stories in the same boat as Santa and E. Bunny. The Old Testament is full of them. The NT not so much at all. But they are two different books separated by hundreds of years and two different belief systems and had no business being welded together in the first place many scholars say.
Lotsa words to say you are right, even as a child you draw the line some places.
The irony is when mom said "you have to eat your vegetables, they are good for you".....at 8 years old I wasn't buying that either 🙂.

      brent The NT not so much at all. But they are two different books

      The last thing I want to do is get into a religious argument here, or even a philosophical one, because it just isn't the place for it. But the New Testament is also full of stories that are unbelievable as well, unless they can be attributed to magick and the supernatural, and that's something I'm not comfortable basing my life on.

      There are religious philosophies I stand behind 100%. I'm a firm believer in "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and the Pagan equivalent, "An it harm none, do as ye will." But I draw the line at believing water can be miraculously turned into good wine, or a woman becomes pregnant spontaneously, and such. Like some product sales pitches even today, those require believing--without proof--in unfounded claims that a product can do something that it can't.

      The cartoon above above made me laugh. My apologies if it offended anyone. I'm just not superstitious.

          WetGeek nowhere is a place for religious discussion, agreed. it was a thought provoking cartoon, I waxed on it, liked it. I agree with all you said but, like you, do believe in some version the gold rule which you quoted. also known in different cultures as karma, etc.

            DesertRat

            LOL! I can verify both of those, having had both dogs and cats in our family.

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              WetGeek

              TBH, I think it's a terrible comic.
              I'd hate seeing this place become more (anti)religious and political.

              brent This one is pretty solid. lol

              I've switched to Linux Mint earlier this year; and I installed Vivaldi, Brave, and Librewolf (the only version of Firefox I can recommend TBH). The real incognito mode is running multiple other browsers, and tacking on several privacy/security/ad-blocking extensions... and using your own SearxNG instance. xD

              But Linux Mint has bad performance on my machine with NVIDIA Optimus, so I'm trying Solus OS again. Solus OS has been a pretty nice distro, and I like Budgie.

                  brent

                  We should get rid of "Spring Forward" but keep the "Fall Back" part... and do it more often, like... um... every day!

                  I could use an extra hour of sleep!

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                    WetGeek dark the way I like it. the males die first in hive situation but he doesn't know that yet. His best decision would be to run; she's Stepford all the way.

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