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are you neurotic? guilt issues? ocd? did your mother spank you as a kid? not being sarcastic.
/r/askTRP28/05/18 05:33 PM
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Maybe I was a bit too harsh. My idea wasn't to make everyone pile on these guys. Several guys here seem to be resentful towards figures like Piper. I don't know, it's personal. I'm an OCD guy. Following the smallest rule to its most absurd logical conclusion: yeah, I'll do that, seems to be in my DNA. And yet I know that's absurd. But Evangelicalism encourages and congratulates this kind of thing. (Seriously. Only in America can a title like "The spiritual discipline of not jaywalking" be writte…
/r/RPChristians30/04/18 05:48 AM
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Don't tell anybody here, but I rather like Mark Driscoll.
/r/RPChristians30/04/18 05:38 AM
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For the poorly elaborated but true reasons you’ve listed in your post. Yeah, here's the thing. I could write long paragraphs sprinkled with Bible verses. Do I need to? I'm just saying these guys are cucks. And that the legalism they are proposing is stupid and unmanly. I'm saying just look at these articles and look at these guys' faces. (I mean yeah, feels cruel to trash poor old Piper like that. But that first guy? He's the quintessential Evangelical man.) This undignified sheepishness of the …
/r/RPChristians30/04/18 01:55 AM
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Well, I mean Piper no ill. I do think he is kind of... maybe "effeminate" is not the word, but something like that. And a guy's core personality inevitably affects his convictions.
/r/RPChristians29/04/18 11:08 PM
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insignificant articles The insignificance of the articles is the point. This kind of pap passes for "intellectual discussion" and "edifying discourse" in Evangelicalism. insult two men based on appearance A picture is worth a thousand words. The eyes are windows to the soul. One does well to take a phenomenological approach to things. I could heed these men's syllogistic reasoning, or I could take a look at their faces to see what kind of man is bidding me follow his injunctions. What is the lib…
/r/RPChristians29/04/18 10:11 PM
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Being "red-pilled" about women means realizing their true amoral nature (a truth of which the Bible and all good literature provide ample evidence) and tailoring your seduction and relationship strategies to this reality. It doesn't mean you stop believing in love; it means you stop looking at it with the naiveté of someone fed on pop music and romantic movies and Evangelical self-help books. To say that the soul finds it ultimate satisfaction in God is perfectly orthodox. Indeed I have seen a C…
/r/RPChristians26/04/18 02:36 PM
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Hey, this was actually a kind reply. Thanks. However, most of your other points are mired in intellectual sophistry and moral superiority. Ironically, perhaps more legalistic than you claim I am. Shophistry? Not at all. I do recommend you take a look at "Against Intellectual Property". Maybe it will help you realize on which side the sophistry lies. Moral superiority? I defend the right of people to avail themselves of music, anime, movies etc. freely. I defend their right to flaunt legal techni…
/r/RPChristians25/04/18 04:30 PM
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Yeah. Nice evangelicalise you got there. Some nice talcum-powdered moralistic pap. The reason third worlders pirate a large ammount of the content they consume is not because it is legally unavailable or prohibitively expensive (and this because of a byzantine bureaucracy and corporate monopolies). No. It is because they are naughty people. Mankind is a great mass of sinners; few are the holy consumers who pay for their content like good Christian boys. It is by these heroic and virtuous people …
/r/RPChristians25/04/18 01:40 AM
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There would be no thriving music culture, film culture, anime culture etc. anywhere in the third world if it were not piracy. I can guarantee you this 100%. Most people pirate copiously. Neither a legal or moral justification to pirate. Haha! Yes! How dare they acquire "unauthorized copies" of music, of manga, of movies, to sate their healthily curious imaginations. We should all placidly accept a life of sheer cultural penury. I should only watch those horrible Brazilian films made with tax mon…
/r/RPChristians24/04/18 09:26 PM
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Let me add on some personal experience, as I have actually created content that has been pirated. Your personal experience is an isolated case. I translate pirateable books too. If everyone pirates them I'll be out of a job. Guess what? I'll find another job. Economies are formidable things. There is never a shortage of demand for services and goods (particularly if you don't feel entitled to non-"blue collar" jobs.) Piracy immediately have a severe negative impact on my ability to make a living…
/r/RPChristians24/04/18 08:56 PM
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Yes. Excellent again. I love you. What a great reply. I should just pop SSRIs and become a placid and unthinking zombie. Do you know why SSRIs are widely prescribed to Americans? Because they reduce aggression. Because they are great for promoting uncritical conformity. SSRIs, xanax, klonopin, you name it: they are essentially tranquilizers. They numb your brain. It's lovely that you so uncritically accept the idea, commonly held in America, that there is a pill for every problem. In short, stop…
/r/RPChristians10/04/18 02:30 AM
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Yes, wonderfully put, you have understood the matter perfectly. To be a pettily pharisaical Christian - now that would be the ideal, wouldn't it?
/r/RPChristians10/04/18 01:03 AM
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Because I'm neurotic. If something is personally important to me and if unkind, simplistic, arrogantly moralistic answers keep coming my way I'll just debate the issue to death. But yeah. I'll take a break.
/r/RPChristians10/04/18 01:03 AM
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You suck at reading comprehension.
/r/RPChristians10/04/18 12:05 AM
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True, but when there is no profit, there is no crime. It is a grey area, I agree. Actually no. The unauthorized use of copyrighted material is a crime even if you're not profitting from it. If I take a photo of a very expensive painting, and print it out and hang it on my wall, where is the crime? I suppose you allow your visitors to look at this copy of an artwork, even if they haven't paid for museum tickets? Do you also make copies of musical CDs you bought and upload them to the internet for…
/r/RPChristians10/04/18 12:03 AM
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The problem as we see in the OP is not the actual act of using the pirated copy, or buying it. The problem is tying your brain in a knot to justify doing it as a non-sin. My dear unenlightened friend. You don't seem to realize that common opinions (such as the sacredness of copyright) are often wrong. You don't seem to realize that it takes more thinking to dismantle a falsehood than it takes to state it. You don't seem to realize that some problems are abstruse and demand careful and extensive …
/r/RPChristians09/04/18 11:55 PM
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I can't believe it can be that expensive! "Expensive" is not even the point. I have mentioned out of print books, obscure movies and bands, Japan-only video games. These are things that are usually impossible to get at any price. They are not "officially" available. I'm talking digital copies of VHS recordings of 80s anime with Brazilian dubbing. I'm talking things that are not for sale anywhere in the world. It is only because of the loving curation and generous dissemination of these artifacts…
/r/RPChristians09/04/18 11:38 PM
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theft I will quote Wikipedia: Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization.[13] Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft. For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootle…
/r/RPChristians09/04/18 11:32 PM
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any more than simply wanting to own a Ferrari entitles you to have one if your budget only allows for a Hyundai. Horrible simile. Completely misses the point. There's nothing expensive about my taste. Hipsters tend to be poor. Also, I don't see anything particularly virtuous about preferring one form of entertainment over another Then maybe you should take a closer look at your definition of virtue. What if I tell you that strenght, thriving, excellence, having high standards and so on are indee…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 11:14 PM
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All your points are feeble. None of them resist the smallest scrutiny. I have already typed too much today. Maybe I'll take a stab at them later. Best regards.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 11:07 PM
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If you can't earn enough to buy it fair and square For a supposed genius you have very poor reading comprehension skills. I have tried to paint a picture of what I consider a decent cultural diet. It's impossible to acquire most of these things "fair and square". The only sane choice is a benign anarchistic contempt for the (again: de jure and not de facto) minutiae of the law. This seems to me eminently reasonable. It seems to me, dare I say, eminently moral. But it contradicts certain imbecili…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 10:45 PM
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The engineer is paid for his work. The brick-layer, the waiter, the cook, they are duly rewarded for their services. The manufacturer of goods exchanges his wares for money. I should not expect them to work for free. The musician is paid for his performance by the audience. The poet writes a book. I buy his book, a physical object which has been made at a cost. This is the normal functioning of an economy. It is organic. It is fair. It's give-and-take, supply-and-demand. But information (digital…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 10:39 PM
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I have aristocratic ambition. I'm a cinephile. I'm a music-lover. I endeavor to be a connoisseur. My ideal is that of the "culture vulture". I like avant-garde music and subterranean subgenres. I have a taste for the rare, the old, the obscure. I have, in short, a healthy cultural omnivorousness. I like books that are out of print. I like b-sides and demos. I like everything that the common man does not have a taste for, everything that the huckster has not packaged™ and copyrighted™ in order to…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 10:23 PM
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But I know it's wrong and I would not try to justify my behaviour as righteous given the expense of doing the genuinely right thing for my neighbour that produces the content. No. You're being naive. Read up on some libertarian literature. American conservatives are dumb as hell on economics. Information wants to be free. Content spreads organically. Supply and demand. Everyone wants to watch the soccer highlights. Some dude will upload the highlights. A love of sports is a healthy, democratic t…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:52 PM
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But being an example means no free video games. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:46 PM
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But just had to remind him that the biblical commandment was to love your neighbour The big businesses are his neighbour. This is a hilarious comment. Seriously. Read it back to yourself. I have already addressed all this stuff.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:45 PM
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I think you're creating a false dichotomy there. No. Spotify, Have already addressed this. Spotify sucks. swapping or sharing with friends That's what torrenting is. That's what Soulseek is. And there's a genuine spirit of generosity in these communities. The whole point is that "legal options" are incredibly and insultingly limited; that the chunk of the money goes not to the artistic creators but to the government and parasitic middlemen (as in the case of Spotify); and that being finicky abou…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:26 PM
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This is an incredibly moronic comment. Your reading comprehension skills are non-existent. And you try to insult me and my country on top of it. I love it. Bless your heart.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:18 PM
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"Hamstering" seems to sum what it is up in one single word. Hamstering is what women do. A woman rationalizing her own sexual immorality and infidelity -- that's hamstering. Volumes of deep analysis and dissection of the action to this degree Why yes. God forbid we make deep analyses of things. God forbid we dissect them. If you were an Evangelical a hundred years ago you would be convinced that card-playing and theater-going is immoral. You would be convinced that plays are sinful. Sophocles an…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:14 PM
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Will my conscience allow me to be a thriving interesting man exhuding joie de vivre? Or should I be a good boy instead? It's almost like youre sh#t-testing me.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 09:03 PM
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I was watching Jordan Peterson videos yesterday. Here are some things he essentially said: The imagination is voracious. That's a good thing. Feed it. Rambling is good. (He's a clinical psychologist. Hearing his patients ramble is his job.) It is through rambling that we get to understand things better. In speaking we hear ourselves. We develop our thoughts. "No one knows any better than you." Straight quote. The point is there is no paternal figure out there with the truth in their hands. There…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 08:59 PM
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If taking a libertarian view of this matter, a view that many intelligent and moral people adhere to, is mental masturbation, then yeah, sure. Have you ever read Plato? Are you not aware that it takes more words to disassemble a lie than it takes to state it? I have already said that it is "intellectual property" that is the false idol. It is because of this false idol that the act of availing oneself of copies of digital media bears the fearful name of "piracy". People see the word and are horr…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 04:45 AM
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What is it with Americans and viewing illegal downloads as if they were on a par with child sacrifice? Seriously. Jesus Christ.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 04:39 AM
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But it all boils down to who you believe decides right from wrong. If the government dictates morality and God changes his will to adapt to whatever the government says, that leads to one conclusion. If God decides, then the government cannot legislate sin, so we must necessarily determine an alternate rubric. Well by God there you have it. I guess you do get it.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 04:37 AM
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In short, you adhere to a positivistic view of the law and you are weirdly unctuous about it. My whole point is that this positivistic view of the law destroys life and talent. It is the enemy of a thriving imagination. It is the enemy of life. Yes, I want to thrive rather than succumb to mediocrity. I have tasted legalism; it tasted like hell; I want none of it. And this you call being "stubborn" and "not having one's heart in its right place". lol
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 04:35 AM
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Yeah well. I have not presented my case very clearly. I could have written a more coherent and concise defense of my stance. But if I ramble about it is because I'm trying to show it from many different angles. Some here have understood this. (And thanks for your kind suspicion about the sinister secret deeds I'm supposedly neck-deep in.)
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 04:30 AM
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There you go. Generational gap. All the interesting Brazilian guys I know, guys who radiate charisma and talent and cultural savvy, are rascally digital pirates. I'm talking the kind of guys who would certainly turn you on in your younger days. And I also know legalists. And they are a sad sight. As for my supposed pangs of conscience. My conscience has told me that reading Orwell's 1984 is a sin, because the author was not a Christian. It has told me that imagining fictional pictures and storie…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 03:56 AM
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But I'm being too "rational". Let me put it more vividly. I was raised in Evangelicalism. And I think H. L. Mencken was right in considering Evangelical Americans a bunch of moronic hicks. And as if their philistinism wasn't oppressive enough, it was always accompanied by Evangelicalism's ever-loving pharisaism. What I'm saying is that your condemnation of piracy is the stance of a moronic hick.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 02:50 AM
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I enjoy presenting my case to an unsympathetic audience. I enjoy the stream of pat answers and flimsy platitudes it ellicits. I also get great, generous answers like OsmiumZulu's. I enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of it. I enjoy challenging people like you to defend their parochial and puritanical perspectives against the arguments I have presented. Instead of your little quips you could try picking apart what I have said to you in my last comment. Yes, I have typed a lot of words. I rather …
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 02:35 AM
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steal That is precisely the point. Making copies is not stealing. At all. The very law admits to this. And it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is the artificial and arbitrary fences erected against "copyrighted media" that deprive us of the free flow of information. That it is these fences that constitute, indeed, a kind of "theft". This case is extensively and eruditely made in this book: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 It is a stance adopted by many liberta…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 02:21 AM
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And I have already addressed this. You seem to have no idea of what terms like "scrupulosity", "neurosis" etc. mean. I'm done with you. Have a good day and thanks again for your kindness.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:48 AM
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I'm sure you're not.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:31 AM
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The "monkey-wrench" you have thrown me consists in saying "It's wrong because it's wrong, and you know it." What a penetrating perspective you have offered me. Thank you.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:31 AM
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Morality's a funny thing, isn't it? My conscience isn't bothered by my divorces lol I think I can rest my case.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:21 AM
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Do you know what "neurotic" means? Are you familiar with the concept of "sadistic superego"? Are you familiar with Lacan's concept of "jouissance"? I'm sure you would make a great therapist.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:20 AM
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Yeah, I'm sure your cultural interests are as deep and wide as your sense of moral proportion is well-tuned.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:18 AM
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Maybe the real issue is that delving into the abstruse minutiae of the subject is not within your intellectual grasp.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:15 AM
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What is spectacular is that someone who has broken her marriage vows four times thinks it an unspeakable transgression to download files "illegally".
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:11 AM
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I also mentioned novels and symphonies, if middlebrow respectability is your thing. There is also such a thing as "cultural omnivorousness", a very healthy and commendable instinct, and those who happen to be endowed with it might find the strictures of legalism more unbearable than the average person. Maybe your thing is Top 40 Hits and The Office (U.S.). Maybe that's enough for you. Maybe you don't find a life of utter cultural mediocrity unbearable.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 01:07 AM
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Yes. I suppose he hasn't done due penance for his abominable crimes. Tell me: are you also scandalized by theater-going and card-playing?
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 12:43 AM
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That's precisely the point, my dear. Scrupulosity almost ruined my life. The very scrupulosity I am arguing against.
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 12:41 AM
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Yes. In referencing Voegelin and Weber, in pointing out the difference between de jure law and de facto legal, in pointing out the difference between legal positivism and legal naturalism, in pointing out the fact that neurotically following a draconian legislation down to the last letter of the law is more scrupulous than virtuous, in pointing out that copyright is a historical novelty with a rich history of abuses, yes -- I'm grasping at mere straws. I'm not meticulously painting a large pictu…
/r/RPChristians08/04/18 12:39 AM
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Alright. Sorry. I guess I have an argumentative temper. I get angry when I'm told by people who are in a much more privileged situation than me that I should abide by legalistic standards that might be reasonable where they live but are not reasonable at all where I live. And when on top of that they do it with what strikes me as facile biblicism and flimsy philosophizing. But yeah, you strike me as a good guy and as someone who is sincere in his Christian faith. Thanks for taking your time. Sor…
/r/RPChristians06/04/18 05:57 AM
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Yes, I suppose cheap plastic wares are manufactured in China. My mistake. Otherwise I woud like you to point out what is "ignorant" in my comment. Is it the mention of bourgeois asceticism? Is it the reference to Antonioni? Am I wrong about the American ethos? Was Max Weber wrong? I say absurd things in order to make a serious point. I caricature the legalistic position, I demonstrate what it would entail in reality if taken to its logical conclusions, in order to make a serious point. I know se…
/r/RPChristians06/04/18 05:46 AM
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But OP's stated purpose is his own self-amusement and entertainment. He just wants to kick his boredom to the curb I have made it aboundingly clear that that is not the case. At this point I don't even know how to explain myself anymore. Evangelicals have a poor conception of leisure. Puritans that they are, afflicted by the Weberian bourgeois ascesis that elevates hard-working capitalistic hucksterism to a sacred vocation, they are suspicious of idleness. They are suspicious of art, of contempl…
/r/RPChristians06/04/18 02:35 AM
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Yes, fences are sacred; fences are a very scary thing; who but a very vicious criminal would dare climb a fence; and if a fence metaphor can be dredged up to make the case for legalism, then by God I don't see how anyone could be against legalism. And I'm sure the "law" John is alluding to in the Bible passage is God's law, not some moronic parking spot law created by a goody-two-shoes legislator. If there were no such laws maybe people would have to be generous to handicapped people of their ow…
/r/RPChristians06/04/18 02:11 AM
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In that sense, whether I'm smuggling Bibles into North Korea Yes, again the sanctimonious missionary example. You're a very bad boy if you smuggle or pirate a recorded rendition of a Schubert symphony, but Bibles? By all means let's smuggle Bibles to the North Koreans. We first worlders may indulge in high culture in our comfortable Evangelical McMansions; we can't allow third worlders this luxury. Let them be satisfied with their Bibles. Similarly, if I park in a handicapped spot, the act of br…
/r/RPChristians06/04/18 01:41 AM
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Valeu. Yeah I suppose it's about not falling into extremes. It's what most of us do anyway. My point about "jeitinho" is that it's not actually a bad thing. You might be aware of our great, if eccentric, libertarian thinker, Paulo Kogos. One of my favorite Kogos quote goes something like "The two pillars of Brazilian culture are the jeitinho brasileiro and Catholicism."
/r/RPChristians05/04/18 03:19 AM
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I've yet to meet an anti-piracy Christian not from the first world. Yeah. I wonder what country you're from? When you come from a place where the government and the pirates are one and the same, and the laws are so corrupt there are "official" laws and "not-official" laws, and then there are "laws" in inverted commas... and then there are "laws" specifically designed to handicap law-abiding citizens (no doubt implemented by non-law-abiding citizens) I'd like to see what the anti-piracy Christian…
/r/RPChristians05/04/18 03:12 AM
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You seem to be implying that the Christian life is synonymous with an ascetic renunciation of worldly vanities. That the only life worthy of being called a Christian life is the life of a monk. G. K. Chesterton was a profoundly well-read man. And although his reading in the respectable classics was wide, he was particularly fond of detective novels. But his Christianity was so deep and sincere that many people seem to suspect he was actually a saint. There is no contradiction between being a Chr…
/r/RPChristians05/04/18 03:08 AM
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Fantastic reply. I don't think I can do it justice. But here are some comments on it. As for compensating the creators. There seems to be a pattern of generosity in this regard among true artists. Radiohead released one of their records for free on the internet, in a “pay what you want” system. And this from a band who is notorious for working painfully hard at their records. I once read a guy from Mogwai, a great post-rock band, say it’s perfectly okay to download their records “illegally” usin…
/r/RPChristians05/04/18 02:49 AM
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Your concern is that inequality exists in the world today. No. Should the master also donate some of his riches to the slave? Or should the slave be morally right in stealing from his master. No one should donate anything to anyone. I don't give a damn about inequality. And I say this as a poor man. I'm not talking about inequality or philantropy or any of that crap at all. And I'm tired of pointing out that I'm not advocating theft at all either. The smuggler in Brazil should be content with a …
/r/RPChristians04/04/18 04:46 AM
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The spirit of the law must be taken Yeah, that's the basic idea. Copyright laws often act as unjust hindrances is the point. I'm not defending reckless egoism. A) how does an action further the Lord's kingdom. I'm not a fan of the sanctimonious missionary tone Evangelicals assume when talking about morality. I prefer a more sober and more general Thomistic approach. B) How do you seek the betterment of your enemy or the one you profit off. I'm all for a system that benefits everyone involved. Bu…
/r/RPChristians04/04/18 01:15 AM
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You probably will not find biblical advice that applies at the community or national level in the bible. So it's hard to see what must be done in this scenario from a higher perspective. The principle is the same whether we're talking about a village or country of continental proportions. My stance is that "intellectual property" laws are unnatural and stifling, particularly in countries where access to "legal" digital goods is prohibitively expensive. And the observable fact is that the genuine…
/r/RPChristians04/04/18 12:07 AM
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I have also mentioned music and books and movies. I used video game smuggling as an illustration because it is common here and an eloquent example of what I'm talking about. But yes, perhaps I should start afresh today and succumb once again to the scrupulosity that almost ruined my life. Perhaps libertarians are full of it and strict legalistic puritanism is the radiant truth I have failed to see.
/r/RPChristians03/04/18 11:53 PM
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Thanks for the answer. But these concerns have been addressed in my post! I have talked precisely about this real morality you speak of. I have talked precisely about how real sins cause real harm. I have tried to present a contrast between pharisaical morality and real morality. And I have talked about how the kind of blossoming talents that bring joy and honor to a culture can be smothered by scrupulosity.
/r/RPChristians03/04/18 11:48 PM
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I didn't say it is not illegal, as the scary-looking images of FBI warnings you linked to sternly affirm. I said it is not, technically speaking, theft. Anyway. All my thoughts on this subject are the result of years of obsessively thinking and reading about it. And this after my scrupulosity made me severely depressed, almost ruined my life, almost made me suicidal. So I'm sorry if I come across as a naughty man full of inexcusable rationalizations to you. My stance is that the mature position …
/r/RPChristians03/04/18 11:39 PM
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God's word makes it clear that it's theft. Nope. I'm talking about acquiring and using "unauthorized copies" of things. Copies. Making copies. Using copies. While the original copy remains intact. That is not, by definition, theft. Even the law recognizes this technicality. Calling it "theft" is typical Evangelical Puritanism: at once simple-minded and finger-wagging. The rest of your post is your hamster running wild. It is women who have hamsters. And no, I am most emphatically not "rationaliz…
/r/RPChristians03/04/18 10:55 PM
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Don't read Bible verses as if they constituted independent positivistic units of meaning. Humillity is a virtue, but it has to be balanced with other virtues. Courage is a virtue; virility is a virtue. Humility doesn't mean thinking you're a piece of a crap. There is such a thing as benign vanity. There is such a thing as self-respect. There is such a thing as carrying yourself in a dignified manner. The famous quote by C.S. Lewis: Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of your…
/r/RPChristians03/04/18 10:04 PM
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What do you mean by "confront with"? She will obviously be glad you're not a virgin. Although she won't be very turned on by your low partner count. If you were a virgin she would despise you for it. And, in a woman, respect for you equals attraction to you. I thought everyone on this forum knew this stuff.
/r/RPChristians27/03/18 10:14 PM
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Yeah, he does. But he knows what he writes about. His specialty is women. This is like saying you shouldn't trust a scientist's writings on minerals or the digestive system because he "writes for a secular audience". "Game" is basically observing and systematizing patterns of female behavior in the area of male-female intersexual dynamics. It's science, by definition. PUAs don't wear lab coats while they're running game but the principle is the same.
/r/RPChristians27/03/18 10:12 PM
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I appreciate your honest reply. You strike me as neurotic. I'm a neurotic guy too, if that hasn't already been made obvious. I tend to feel guilt over everything. Including the matter I'm addressing in this thread. Look. I have looked at this from every possible angle. And as I said in the OP, I have for a while adopted the legalistic position. And it was hell. It was an unbearable way to live.
/r/RPChristians07/03/18 03:31 AM
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Are Ingmar Bergman movies entertainment? Is Tolstoy? Is Stravinsky? How have I not made it clear that I'm not talking about mere entertainment? I'm talking about having intellectual ambition. I'm talking about being acquainted with the Western literary canon. I'm saying I should not allow scrupulosity about copyright laws hinder me in these pursuits. And yes, I'm talking about delving into lowbrow cultural forms as well. Some of the most artistically and intellectually accomplished guys I know a…
/r/RPChristians07/03/18 03:13 AM
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"I'd consider yourself blessed that you're in a position less able to consume culture than the rest of the world." Hahaha. I don't even know what to reply to this.
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 06:04 PM
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Yeah, I get your point. I could offer you a point by point counterargument but I will let the topic rest for now. And seriousy, I'm not trolling. I don't think the people who are disagreeing with me on this thread have really put themselves in my shoes. You guys are basically suggesting that I sacrifice my cultural diet on the altar of petty legalism. Aren't you? (But thanks for replying. I enjoyed debating this issue. Please don't delete the thread.)
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 06:01 PM
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Yeah, here's the thing (and most libertarians would back me up on this one): "intellectual property" doesn't exist. If I steal your banana, which is your property, I am thereby depriving you of it. Now I have the banana. You don't have it anymore. I have committed theft. On the other hand, if I make a copy of your file, I am not thereby depriving you of it. Now I have a copy of your file, but you still have your file (or your book, your song, whatever).
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 03:41 PM
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What I'm saying is I want to be a well-rounded guy. There's a book about American Protestantism called "Fit Bodies, Fat Minds". It is basically about how Evangelical Christians tend to not value culture. In fact I own a copy of this book. A legal copy, no less. If I said I want to be physically fit I don't think anyone would object. But I say I want to be "intellectually fit", as it were, and already I see some objections. You say this stuff is secondary. I disagree. I gave examples of media, bo…
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 03:34 PM
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I'm not concerned with entertainment. I'm concerned with personal development. These are the things I like. I follow my gut. They hit the sweet spot for me. If my "vocation" or "talents" lie anywhere, it is there. A guy who doesn't know his cinema, his literature, his music is a fool. I reject the pious idea that being a Christian means limiting your leisure time to praying, church-going, Bible-reading etc. To "Christian" things. In fact that idea gives me despair. It's an infinitely small way o…
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 06:12 AM
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Ok, I get what you're saying. But you know, as with most churches, most Christian forums on the web are "cucked". (I'm not a big fan of 4chan terminology but that really is the word.) If I bring this kind of topic to them, they will give me pat legalistic answers, just as they will give pat blue pill relationship advice to guys who are struggling with that kind of thing. And isn't being "redpilled" in a more general sense also a part of recovering one's masculinity? But thanks for being understa…
/r/RPChristians06/03/18 12:31 AM
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I guess certain parts of my post weren't very clear. I edited it a bit.
/r/RPChristians05/03/18 10:40 PM
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As for the title: Libertarians tend to be against the concept of copyright. Like, there are whole books about it. And the arguments are well-founded. And indeed there seems to be something about the concept of copyright, upon closer inspection, that perversely violates natural law.
/r/RPChristians05/03/18 09:01 PM
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