Scott Adams Thread

magoo said:
Why is that Scott something saying people who didn´t take the clot shot are victors? WE ARE ALL LOSERS. Nobody will win stupid man.
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It's a figure of speech. In a human sense, we can all be losers, especially if we know people personally or tried to tell them and they didn't listen. If we had a nation and they were deceived, that also would be communal losing; but we don't really and haven't for a long time. The population decline had to come at some point, or in some fashion, magoo. I'm not happy about it, but in that sense the creative destruction will have taken place and had its purpose.

Life is brutal this way with technology. No who else is going to go by the wayside? I know people around here (some) hate it when I mention it, but it's the most obvious Cassandra thing on the forum for years now = those who hold BTC, and those who don't.
 
He's posting and reposting a lot this morning, although with very short tweets. I suspect he is bed ridden, but is still coherent, so he's not right at death's door yet.

I pray he will repent and believe while there is time.
 
End of life conversion because of cost vs. benefits analysis and also as a control for his simulator experiment, all based on the "Christian" premise that conversion guarantees him waking up in Heaven.

Yeah, it really doesn't work that way, but it could still work for him.

I don't know if this attribution is accurate, but a priest told me that St. Paisios of Mt. Athos reacted to someone telling him that he's a holy man destined for Heaven by saying he really doesn't know. Like really doesn't know because, according to this story, he was born into a devout Greek Orthodox family and he had a saint for a parish priest (St. Arsenios), so he really doesn't know if he's actually done enough because he had such a proper beginning.

In fact, said St. Paisios, I might be worse than a murderer. How so? Inquired the priest who related this story. I started very well and maybe I haven't come far enough to enter Heaven, but maybe there's someone who had a terrible beginning and because of that he murdered 10 people per day, but then he worked really hard to get closer to God and reduced it to only murdering three people per day. That guy might have come much further than me. I really don't know.
 
I've always understood Christ's parable of the workers in the field to mean that anyone who comes to Christ receives salvation, no matter how late they started. In Adam's case, he is coming pretty late in the game, but if he has sincerely repented and believed, then I believe he is forgiven and saved.

I wonder how many millions of unsaved people will hear about this? I expect more than a few will come to Christ because of this.

Praise God!
 
Thomas More said:
I've always understood Christ's parable of the workers in the field to mean that anyone who comes to Christ receives salvation, no matter how late they started. In Adam's case, he is coming pretty late in the game, but if he has sincerely repented and believed, then I believe he is forgiven and saved.

I wonder how many millions of unsaved people will hear about this? I expect more than a few will come to Christ because of this.

Praise God!
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Absolutely! If you come to Christ five minutes before you slip away, Glory to God and you are saved.

But how can you come to Christ, meaning you want Jesus Christ more than all that other stuff you've been focusing on for 70 years, if you don't train your soul what to want by denying yourself, picking up your cross every day, and following Christ?

There are other ways, but forgive me, Scott Adams is not a humble man. How can anyone just suddenly stop wanting their arrogance without struggling against it for a while? It ain't easy, especially for a rich man or, dare I say, for a famous man.
 
Read_Lives_of_Saints said:
Absolutely! If you come to Christ five minutes before you slip away, Glory to God and you are saved.

But how can you come to Christ, meaning you want Jesus Christ more than all that other stuff you've been focusing on for 70 years, if you don't train your soul what to want by denying yourself, picking up your cross every day, and following Christ?

There are other ways, but forgive me, Scott Adams is not a humble man. How can anyone just suddenly stop wanting their arrogance without struggling against it for a while? It ain't easy, especially for a rich man or, dare I say, for a famous man.
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I think what you are describing comes after a period of sanctification and spiritual maturing. I don't think people have to have that level of devotion when they first come to Christ.
 
Thomas More said:
I think what you are describing comes after a period of sanctification and spiritual maturing. I don't think people have to have that level of devotion when they first come to Christ.
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I agree, everyone is on a timeline, but Adams seems to be under the impression that he can speak some magic words in the next month and it's just going to happen if God is real, otherwise he wins the bet with himself that it was all a simulation and nothing matters, which is the most nihilistic concept imaginable.
 
Read_Lives_of_Saints said:
I agree, everyone is on a timeline, but Adams seems to be under the impression that he can speak some magic words in the next month and it's just going to happen if God is real, otherwise he wins the bet with himself that it was all a simulation and nothing matters, which is the most nihilistic concept imaginable.
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Did he say that in the video or is that your own cynical inference?

Genuinely asking.
 
Get2choppaaa said:
Did he say that in the video or is that your own cynical inference?

Genuinely asking.
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He did not use those exact words in the 1 minute video, but he also made no mention of the details of conversion or the time required.

My cynicism comes from Adams' nihilistic viewpoint on life being a simulation. He wants to be optimistic and nihilistic at the same time in able to literally cover his bet both ways, but the problem is that he is lacking faith.

Faith is necessary to do anything, but Adams wants things to work on logic and odds. He's literally the boomer saying he can lift himself up by his own bootstraps into heaven, if it exists, but if not that's cool too. Win win.

Except dead, but it don't matter because I'm smart boy and figured out it's all a simulation.

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Read_Lives_of_Saints said:
He did not use those exact words in the 1 minute video, but he also made no mention of the details of conversion or the time required.

My cynicism comes from Adams' nihilistic viewpoint on life being a simulation. He wants to be optimistic and nihilistic at the same time in able to literally cover his bet both ways, but the problem is that he is lacking faith.

Faith is necessary to do anything, but Adams wants things to work on logic and odds. He's literally the boomer saying he can lift himself up by his own bootstraps into heaven, if it exists, but if not that's cool too. Win win.

Except dead, but it don't matter because I'm smart boy and figured out it's all a simulation.

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I get that at all and watched it after your post.

Well perhaps you won't take this poorly, but sometimes it shows more the person making the comment about what others are saying than it does the person making the statement in question.

I get it, Adams has been a goober... But seems like a decently good faith approach to a guy at the end of his life to get right.
 
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