In what sort of workplace is this not safe?
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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Hobby Lobby. Chick-Fil-A.
My lemmy app says the OP is from the lemmynsfw instance, maybe that has to do with it?
So many times I see the NSFW tag, when in fact it is safe for work. Mods should ban those who do this.
Eh... I'd accept an un-nsfw tagging.
You misunderstand; it’s Naturally Safe For Work.
Any where you're supposed to work instead of doomscroll and browse for memes..?
There is a somewhat obvious seeming out to this that a religious person could take I think: what if they were to simply look at the start to it and say "Evil doesnt exist, everything we think is evil actually isnt for -insert some reason here that presumably whatever god they follow understands but humans cant/dont-" It wouldnt work for truly dualistic religions since having an evil deity as well as a good one requires evil obviously, and it does make "good" a fair bit less meaningful, but still. Granted, Im not sure if any actually do this.
It's called [Philosophical/Religious/Metaphisical/Leibnizian] Optimism, was seriously argued by Leibniz, and was the satirical subject of Voltaire's Candide, and definitely persists as a lay Christian belief.
It'd need some serious mental gymnastics to consider, say, raping babies not evil, though.
As for dualistic religions, they fail either the "can god prevent evil" or the "does god want to prevent evil" checks, therefore their gods either aren't omnipotent or are themselves evil.
That'd work if for instance there wasn't the ten commandments and a ton of "this is evil don't do it" in any holy book out there.
If there is a god in this shit hole of a planet, they are not your friend.
We're probably God's reality TV featuring lots of bloodshed and famine and more to come with climate change.
To be fair, climate change has been largely our fault for a few decades by now
I meant more terrible things to come once climate change starts destabilizing communities
gotta fap to something.
why is this nsfw i have one hanging up in my office cubis
*Safe for work.
That axiom goes hard.
But what if "God" created the universe this way because it's the only way anything interesting happens? ... not that I believe in God but it's not like we design 'that' many perfectly predictable games despite computers being literally always predictable. (not factoring in specific hardware like tpm devices even though at a certain level even they are still predictable)
Are we evil for not caring about what happens to NPCs or ants? Because compared to how supposedly vast "God"'s existence is compared to ours, our individual lives 'are' a bit of a shrug.
it's the only way anything interesting happens? .
See "God is not good" for a capricious/bored deity.
Though that just points to how this is not a paradox. It just has obvious answers Christians are too braindead to admit.
Interesting thought, in the context of the flow chart this falls directly into the "God is not all knowing" box.