Comments by "Guy Who Likes Ecclesiastes" (@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. Looking forward to this.
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  2. Are those numbers taken only from the Bible or are they from any extra biblical or apocryphal sources?
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  3. As for sex with gods, the Bible identifies an understanding of what this is, Genesis records that before the flood demons have sex with human women. What does that look like to a pagan who already believes in multiple gods, or how will that be rembered by later pagans? As the gods descending and producing demigods, the nephilim, or Hercules. Worshippers of Jehovah don't regard these as God, but creations that rebelled against God, but to greek polytheism, what is the difference?
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  4. The only reason to believe a group violently opposed to another group WON'T move to physically attacking the enemy group is if they are strictly, hyper, non violent, pacifist or something similar. Even then, the Mennonites volunteered units to the SS.
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  5. Ah, what an interesting topic
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  6. Homosexuals can't change who they are? Plenty of people very much have left homosexuality, transvestism and other such things.
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  7. They see themselves as tools of their ideology, and sex as just another tool. It's a fundamentally unbiblical perspective.
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  8. Everyone seems to approach abortion from really unnatural places. Why is so strange to just say "Killing people is wrong, everyone's life has value, that doesn't exclude people because they don't look like you, haven't yet been born or so on."
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  9. If the Bible is reliable, we are commanded to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. To turn the other cheeck, and repay evil with good. Those are very, as you say, deontological, commands.
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  10. Out of interest, are you, in fact, both a zoomer and a pastor?
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  11. I think that's true for a lot of tight knit, Hard, religions. Stalin is a great advertisement for Orthodoxy. I've heard the testimony of various apostates from various faiths, most of them are pretty positive toward the faith they left, though they totally won't intent that.
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  12.  @skylinefever  Those are the ones in talking about, they give a great testimony for their previous faith by how that He needed up after leaving it.
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  13. Can ANYTHING Frued says be trusted?
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  14. Violence is an idiotic strategy, and contrary to the command of Jesus Christ. "I say to you, you must love your enemy and pray for the one who persecuted you." If you want proof for that working, compare Jehovah's Witnesses and Old Belivers in Russia. Both persecuted during the Soviet period, Old believers happy to engage in the millitary when allowed, Witnesses strictly non violent. What happens? Jehovah's Witnesses are flourishing in Russia while being persecuted and even tortured by Putin and the Orthodox church. If you want to reduce the number of Muslims, evangelise Christianity in Pakistan. You may die, but you will also help some Muslims come to know God truly and contribute to the vindication of His name. I don't say that as an insult, martyrdom is glorious. Warfare or terrorism on the other hand just makes the faith look bad, how many westerners do you think were eager to convert to Islam after 9/11?
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  15. They do, but they have the wrong religion.
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  16. The argument these two make is that it will cause such massive economic collapse and social instability in the U.S. and Europe that you will get civil war and other strife, and potentially the collapse of nations, so war between nations and spawning of terrorists. It won't be extinction, but it will be a China explosion type event, tens of millions of casualties, loss of tech advancement. However, it will reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, unless a nuclear reactor or bomb goes off.
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  17. Between the two.
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  18. Theg will. When Jesus returns, and some of the signs are already visable. Check out "Revelation - it's grand climax at hand!"
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  19. None of those things have gone away, just being hidden by modern medicine. If that medicine ever gives out, everything will go disastrously.
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  20. Because Jesus says so: "For all of you who were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor freeman, there is niether male nor female, for you are all one in union with Christ Jesus."
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  21. They're trying to appeal both to Conservatives and Progessives.
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  22. This is an absolutely fascinating field. The earliest prostitutes we have records for were priestess-prostitutes, the temples of Babylon were also brothels. It's rare now, but Shia Muslim clergy in Iran, Iraq and such kind of act in the same way. The clerics are male, but have the authority to officiate temporary marriage, and maintain a stable of women to hire out. All technically allowed by Sharia, but only their specific Shia Sharia.
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  23. You explain the Chinese property problem so clearly!
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  24. Congrats on 10k subs.
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  25. ​ @jsbrads1 ignoring the joke, the 1st generation were economically effective, but after that fell off because children raised in them didn't want to carry on, execpt some of the religious ones which kind of act like non celibate monasteries.
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  26. An individual prediction about a threat can be wrong while the threat still be real. Climate change is a massive threat, environmentalists are prone to exaggeration and wildly over specific predictions, both are true.
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  27. Evolution requires inordinate faith to accept, unless you believe the God created evolution. If we eventually find out that evolution is wrong and some other method was used, would we call that evolution? When is evolution not evolution?
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  28. You have a great thumb!
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  29.  @ladendeer4428  The membership in the US is declining slightly, but it is slightly increasing in the UK. I think it sort of averages out at a certain percentage, dependent on culture. I am sure we will see substantial growth in Russia, persecution normally leads to growth, and it will be fascinating to see what is going on in China and North Korea when they open up. As for you, which religion did you end up in?
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  30. An awful lot of prostitutes aren't willing. The majority, likely.
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  31.  @BlessedTea555  Seconded.
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  32. Oh boy... we're all going to have some real wacky dreams tonight. As for me, I used to have a lot of nightmares, then I got really, really Christian, and now I have things that should be nightmares but I'm totally unconcerned. Like, recently I dreamt I was in the bottom of a tower where I had been taken on a historical tour, there were recurring blackouts, and during each blackout a demonic red face appeared and each time drew closer to us, but I was totally unconcerned because I knew I was a Christian zealot and didn't need to fear demons, but I was on the tour with a black grey person, who was an unbeliever, and they wouldn't leave quickly and were just standing in the door, so I was worried about the grey person. That sort of thing is pretty common, though some are very complex and have a pretty reasonable narrative.
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  33. Judaism? Aren't they Transhuman-Calvinist-HyperMormons?
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  34. Very interesting. Lets see if this spreads to other countries
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  35. With the exception of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are wildly, wildly evangelistic, but don't have many children, so they're growing, but not through birth rates, they convert people instead. They are apolitical, and very morally biblical.
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  36. Extremely significant.
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  37. The problem isn't Jews, the problem is secularism. Jews were among the first victims of the enlightenment, except in Russia where Tsarist conservatism and anti semitism protected them, then the communists got to Russian Jews as well.
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  38. That poster is 100% "Yes, I raped that women, but it's her fault for being so hot!" A society that normalised rape is bad enough, any sane mind should be able to tell that normalizing pedophillia is worse.
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  39. Would you like to know more?
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  40. ​ @tann_man As a builder, we do sometimes use lime, but it's not normal, kinda like having a grass roof. Cement is the vast majority.
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  41. His hair is obviously an attempt to be the Ukrainian flag.
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  42. I think the best you can get out of communism is Tito. He wasn't genocidal, didn't persecute religion very much and prevented racial violence for a while. He was basically just a normal charismatic military dictator.
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  43. Oh i remember that documentary intro... Brings back memories
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  44.  @PanopticonMind  in this case, that's missing the point. It's not nessercerily that evolution is flawed, so we should believe in God, it's more that evolutionnis so wildly improbable that you would need a probalistic notable for it to happen. At that point, whether it's evolution or another method, it looks like it shouldn't happen but did. Until we can empirically prove abiogenesis, we can'tknow whether it's possible, but we do know that if it is it probabalistically shouldn't be. No matter how many layers deep you go as regards causes, you end up at the same place, things are either contingent or non contingent, you can't have only contingent things, so there must be a non contingent thing on which others are contingent, and since the world is ordered not random, that contingency appears designed. That's the meat of the question.
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  45. When you say newly converted Atheist, do you mean converted to Atheism or away from it?
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  46. The Bible is the inerrant word of God, but neither Catholic Protestant or Orthodox apply God's word. All of them seek to seize political power and use the tools of Satan, Jesus commanded "Love your enemy and pray for the one who persecutes you" and said "my kingdom is no part of this world, if my kingdom were of this world my attendants should have fought that I not be handed over, but as it is my kingdom is not from this source. Seeking political power, which requires violence, corrupted Christendom, we need to return to a Biblical worldview, an actual Biblical worldview.
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  47.  @tuckerbugeater  Who?
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  48. A competent society, even if run by a cartoonishly evil government, would be able to find profitable uses for it's people and would want them doing that rather than killing them. Someone in a wheelchair, without eyes, is still capable of being economically productive. In reality of course, people are made in the image of God, and murder, willing or not, is immoral, but even a truly tyranical regime could find uses for basically everyone.
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  49. Yup married, find it easier to talk when not in the same room.
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  50. Swedish right wingers? There are such things?
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