False dichotomies are mental trash

Good argument that mastery of any trade requires at least cursory understanding of many others

On point. How do people manage that level of cognitive dissonance? To believe that, you have to believe something can cause itself, which makes no sense.

Asking someone to share a verse is Christian lingo to request a passage. A single verse is accepted but isn't actually the expectation.

Thanks bro. What I get from this in FAQ style:
Q. If God is really in control, then what is he doing?
A. Being patient with you.

Please, can you share the verse?

You missed out the "The". 😝

The Count of Monte Cristo

Really quite amazing that "what can be known about God is plain to them" (v.19) and "they knew God" (v.21). But from my own experience this is correct. When I was at a low point and out of touch with God, the feeling was more similar to that procrastination feeling than a feeling of being hopelessly lost.

People are accepting #wordcoin because the vast majority of people's lives are based on barren and destitute philosophies.
There's just no way about it. People are becoming more inclined to a materialist worldview. And if no Creator God exists, if there's no loving and living Reason behind everything, then moral relativism is all you have.
And under this worldview, if the majority say that something is right, then that makes it right, no matter how wrong it may seem.
#worldcoin is central planning taking advantage of this weakness of the average person so that the technocrat overlords who go around calling themselves "elites" get to play one more round of their favourite game - communism.
Anyone reading this is in one of four groups in a matrix of Reason-connected plotted against Compliance.
People who are high Reason-connected are those who believe that there's a beneficent and intelligent creator behind all.
There are those who are in the high-Reason-connected-low-Compliance quadrant who believe that something is wrong and they have the philosophical underpinning to support their position.
Those in the high-Reason-connected-high-Compliance group are the lukewarm-fluffy and seemingly harmless that host Pride events in their churches and are the most dangerous of the entire matrix.
The low Reason-connected are a waking contradiction from the start as they propose to be "reasonable" and "rationalists" whilst lacking any actual non-fabricated Reason at all.
Those in the low-Reason-connected-high-compliance group are the sheep. They are mostly just like chaff that blows around in the wind and in the end gets burned off when found mixed in with the grain. Harmless audience - the actors don't notice nor care how the faces in the crowd change. Money from tickets and a nice applause from time to time.
Then there are those in the low-Reason-connected-low-compliance group.
These are those who propose to be the resistance. Be careful not to mix in with these too much - their opinions melt at the first heat. Like a house built on sand, they could never die for their beliefs as a martyr because they have nothing larger than themselves to support their ideas.

Strive to be found in the first group. A solid Reason is required. But make sure you truly live out this Reason, not like those who propose to have this Reason but do not. A sheep dressed as a lion won't last long in the fight - his mouth and limbs are ultimately those of a sheep, after all. A real lion, on the other hand, never backs down because what he IS can never be taken away from him.

I was lucky to be a pain-in-the-arse kid who simply didn't see the teachers as any authority at all.

I feel bad for some kids who really wanted to please authority and never got a single good teacher.

Then again, I also feel bad for myself because having an authority you can actually respect and trust to care for you is healthy. Don't think I had one.

You're so on point about textbooks. Why do they even exist? Hadn't properly thought about this before.

What's that all about?...

I think I've got it - making a textbook is pretty much saying the following:

"Let me put everything you need to know about this subject in one book for you."

Which is saying:

"I know hold the absolute truth on this subject"
and
"The best way to present this information is in one book."

Nobody so delusional should ever be providing information for children.

Write a book and put your name on it like a reasonable human being. Stop hiding behind acronym-named companies that shouldn't even exist.